Empathic Response: The Ghost Rider

Empathic Response (The Ghost Rider)

Imagine you are Stres. You have just delivered the speech on the findings of your case. Write a letter about your thoughts and emotions about the entire investigative experience, to your wife.

Rationale

In the mystery of The Ghost Rider, against the Church’s wishes, Stres tells the audience that Konstandin rose up from the dead. After the speech, Stres was “never seen again”. The book is written in an oppressive regime, and Kadare uses the book to tell Albania how far the government (represented by the church) will go to deceive its people.

This task aims to present Stres’ unique flair. For example, I present through the use of exaggeration Stres’ liking to present events dramatically, similar to what he did in his speech to the public. The deeper purpose of the letter is to understand the role of imagination in fiction; through the construction of a

He suggested that Konstandin had an incentuous liking for Doruntine and his love caused him to rise from the grave. When I heard this, I was stunned. At that very moment, I knew I had to solve the mystery alone. All that time that my deputy spent, combing through the letters, was wasted! Culminated in nonsense! I was frustrated, alright! I had him focus solely on this case. I trusted him, as my faithful aide, as someone who never failed me. And then he went to make an absolute fool of himself. What a waste of time. If only I had appointed someone more capable! So I decided that this case had to be solved quickly, lest we all go mad. And then I found the answer — or at least I thought so.

The man who was delievered to me as a suspect initially appeared to be the ghost rider. He told me a version of events that seemed to match up with the evidence so far. Yet he was a fake! Paid by the church to protect its interests. So then, by elimination, the only way this could have happened was Konstandin himself being the