Analysis Of John Kessel's 'Creating The Innocent Killer'

“The eyes of our brothers are dull, and never do they look one another in the eyes. The shoulders of our brothers are hunched, and their bodies were shrinking and wished to shrink out of sight” (Rand 46). This quote gives the idea that they feel some sort of fear or uneasiness but can’t seem to express their feelings because it’s against the law. That feeling is felt throughout the entire book except the ending when Equality finds the meaning of life which is one’s self.

The traits and actions of the townspeople throughout the story show their opinions on Mr. Hooper’s actions. All over the town their first instinct was to avoid Mr. Hooper as much as possible. In response to the veil,“ None, as on former occasions, aspired to the honor of walking by their pastor’s side”(Hawthorne 2). This is significant to the theme of the story because rather than branching out and asking Mr. Hooper about his veil, the town begins to make their own assumption which could potentially lead them into trouble. As the townspeople avoided Mr. Hooper, they failed to get to know the story behind the veil.

Although there was the time needed for the parents to mourn the death of their child, they were not promised any. Within the same day of their sons death, they had events and tasks that needed their attention. Life waits for no one and has a pace of its own. The humming sound adds to their disturbing theme of the call, when life calls you just have to answer. The baker calls and repeat the name of the recently deceased child “Scotty”.

The hangman said he only had the chance to keep murdering people because nobody stood up and said something about it. It is ironic that the victim said nobody cried for me because when other people were getting hanged he didn’t say anything either. This leads to the bystander effect because the people of the town did not want to say anything since maybe someone else could have said

Furthermore not talking about the event makes the event seem like it never occurred. Injustice affects us and the people that came before

The manner in which it was written was ingenous. Jon leads us away from liking Chris, but then slowly without realizing it, we start sympathizing with him. At the end of the book, we find ourselves at a crossroads of, do we actually feel sorry for Chris, as if he were a brother or sister; someone who meant something to us, or are we just being the kind hearted soul we were brought up to be? In the book, Into the Wild, author Jon Krakauer claims that Chris McCandless is misunderstood.

Gatsby’s and Myrtle’s unfortunate conclusions show the extent of Fitzgerald’s message. His pessimistic message does not solely apply to the novel, but also acts a lesson for his readers as well. Unlike the two characters, one should not let their dreams get in the way of their

He expresses this in a conversation with Thomas Putnam, by saying, “ I know that you-you least of all, Thomas, would ever wish so disastrous charge laid upon me. We cannot leap to witchcraft. They will howl me out of Salem for such corruption in my house”(13). With this, Arthur Miller shows how caring too much about reputation can turn people into cowards. The reader is able to predict that pride will keep holding characters back.

Mrs. Hopewell refuse to call her daughter Joy because she like what it represents to her. Granny saw the misfit after an accident and the misfit didn’t have any sympathy when recognized him, even though he said he would have let granny family go even she didn’t notice him. Documents say the misfit killed his father, but he had “known that for a lie”. It seemed like the misfit wasn’t talking about just being in jail when he said, “turn to the right it was a wall”, but he was using a metaphor to explain how he didn’t receive the help when he asked for help as a kid and didn’t receive it since people saw him as a killer. He doesn’t ask help from anyone because, “He is doing fine by himself”.

“The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting,” was a quote by the English dramatist Ben Jonson. In Fahrenheit 451, Captain Beatty confronts Guy Montag and attempts to turn him away from the pursuit of reinstating books in the world they lived in. To do so, he makes a point, using Ben Jonson, that if Montag were to keep having violent bouts and shout his truth, the grace of it will be lost. However, the argument that Captain Beatty described and had used the quote was in a dream that he had. Consequently, Captain Beatty only used the quote to confuse Montag and convince him that his pursuit of bringing back writing was a lost cause.

To see Phinny thought it would help Phinny get better if he had some company like friends. Someone to talk to witch after a while of talking I decided to tell Phinny. About what I did to him in the accident. He denied it all that I didn’t do I couldn’t have done something to him especially me being his closet and best friend. I hadn’t seen phinny for a long time since then he was sent home

1. The author wants the reader to have empathy or understand where he’s coming from. The author states “You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat.” He tries to justify his future crime and wants the readers to understand.

The last thing I will be discussing in this paper is the funerals. I do not understand how nothing was done or said to the family of Yankel Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum was pretty much in the wrong place at the wrong time, just like Gavin Cato. Now Gavin Cato’s funeral honestly made me mad and disgusted. “I am not

 Justice:: In this experiment participant was not getting any justice because during this study there treatment was available then also subject was not getting any treatment of Syphilis and at the end most of the subjects was die and they won’t get any justice. By concluding the Tuskegee study did not respect ethical principles, no diversity, no informed consent, no confidentiality and the researchers coerced the subjects into the study and did not let them have a proper medication to treat the syphilis. Based on my personal thoughts go out to the families that lost their loved ones back then due to the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. I personally think that this study should have never been conducted.

This is why I oppose to the death penalty.” Page 184 The author of Pretenders, Lisi Harrison, portrayed Jagger as a closed out, cold kind of character in her book. It seemed as if Jagger doesn’t truly care about anyone, and he hasn’t exposed himself to anyone. Everyone knows that “Seal” is after him, and that his parents are in jail, but no one ones why.