Richard Melville: Case Study

and he finds another black cat that has a close resemblance to Pluto besides a patch of white fur on its chest. He takes the cat home and his wife is quite pleased. When they realize that the cat is missing an eye just like the previous cat, the man begins to despise it. Some time passes and the wife notices that the white patch of fur somehow has grown and morphed into an image of the gallows which makes the man even more spiteful and fearful of the cat. The cat never leaves the man alone not even throughout the night which makes the man angry towards the cat.

The narrator is confined to his path of madness and drunkenness. The narrator’s irritation gets worse, and he attempts to kill the new cat. His wife interjects, and the narrator kills his wife in anger. He chooses to hide his wife’s body in the walls of the cellar.

They were celebrating Hanukkah when they heard a noise below them, Anne, Mr. Frank, and Petar went to investigate. The thief heard them coming and went outside to tell the Green Police. Then Mr. Frank, Anne, and Petar rush back up the ladder when they hear people coming in. Everyone is being very silent and hiding from the light through the bookcase as much as they can. The cat is now on the counter messing with a dish on the edge of the sink, it falls in and makes a loud crash sound.

The narrator got another cat after this and became even more insane in the way he felt about this black cat.

When he couldn't take the torment anymore he tried killing the cat but instead accidentally killed his wife with an axe in the brain. He didn't feel pain that he killed his wife but only thinking that he had to hide the body. After four days of not feeling guilt about the killing his wife police came to check his house.

However, once Howard got his hands on the creature, he claimed that he felt a sudden chill shoot through his fingers, only to settle as a stony lump in his throat. He tried to ignore it, dismissing the feeling as his rheumatism acting up again, yet the sickness only grew the longer he spent with the cat. As his carriage hobbled along the street and back to his home on the Fox River, he could feel the cat’s lifeless, unblinking eyes burning into him, even through the wooden box that the creature was kept in. He rushed inside his house, as it began to rain, and used his coat to cover the

Unfortunately, the narrator gets drunk and angry, then the narrator kills the cat after it bites him. Feeling guilty, the narrator finds another cat and tries to care for this one. In a failed attempt at killing the next cat, he ends up killing his wife and stuffing the body behind a wall. Later when the police search the house, the narrator can’t help but hear the meow coming from inside the wall. The police open the wall and find the cat lying beside the dead body.

Herman Melville and his Impact on American Literature “He who has not failed somewhere… that man cannot be great.” This is a quote by Herman Melville that he lived by throughout his life as he struggled to harness a steady income and share his thoughts through literature. Herman Melville’s writings influenced America mainly after his death as we discovered the underlying beauty and validity of his literature, developed from his years of experience as a seaman. There are many reasons why Herman Melville is considered one of the most decorated literary authors of his time. Melville learned to work from a young age when his father passed away shortly after going bankrupt in the fur business(“American Experience”).

He attempts to explain his sanity in spite of a supernatural cat leading him to kill

‘The Central Park Five’ documentary details the events that led up to the arrest, conviction, and exoneration of five teenage boys: Raymond Santana, Korey Wise, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, and Yusef Salaam. On April 19, 1989 Trisha Meili a 28 year old investment banker was out for a jog when she was sexually assaulted, beaten, and left clinging for her life. A short time there after the assault was said to have been done by the 5 teenage boys ranging in ages from 13 to 16.The night of the crime the boys were out misbehaving, with a larger group of boys. The court found them guilty of rape, assault, and robberies in 1990. During the late 1980’s, New York City was plagued with violence and the ever increasing issues with racism and classism,

Whale University Herman Melville led an adrift life of uncertainty and emptiness prior to his composition of Moby-Dick in 1851. Similar to the nautical course of the Pequod, Melville was pushed back and forth between odd jobs that ultimately ended in dissatisfaction and failure. In a last effort to capture “the ungraspable phantom of life” (Melville 3) that can only be found in the ocean, Melville boarded a merchant ship as a crew member and found himself instantly bound to the blue abyss. Just as Melville’s prior schooling yielded nothing but unemployment, Ishmael claims that Yale or Harvard would have generated less relevant proficiency than a whaling adventure. Additionally, Melville found himself caught in a love triangle consisting of Nathaniel

Bartleby slowly lost even the ambition to do his job. Moreover, Bartleby’s repeated response of “preferring not too” shows no ill will but is simply a refusal. Having no interest in money or leaving, he breaks the unspoken hierarchal structure in the workplace and creates his own option. This ideology disarms the narrator, as the majority of people who work see it as two choices: do it and get paid or go somewhere else. Therefore, when Bartleby first refused to do his job the narrator did not fire Bartleby. The narrator felt, “Had there been the least uneasiness, anger, impatience or impertinence in his manner…I should have violently dismissed him from the premises.” (302, Melville) As Bartleby never made an excuse or used malice no one knew how to respond, and so saved his job.

Ray Bradbury was an author who wrote American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction. Bradbury effectively contributed to the American canon through his prolific amount of literature; which included novels, short stories, essays and poetry. Additionally, Bradbury wrote both some plays and screenplays. One of the most famous screenplays that he wrote was of the book Moby Dick, written by Herman Melville. Ray Bradbury 's early life strongly influenced his writing style and content. Do what one loves and love what one does was truly something Ray believed in. Ray said this, "Love is easy, and I love writing. You can 't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you are in love." (Ray Bradbury), he loved what he

Melville 's “Benito Cereno, published in Putnam’s Monthly Magazine in 1855, has been considered “‘one of the most sensitively poised pieces of writing’ that Melville ever conceived” (Feltenstein, 246). The intricacy of Melville’s story holds many hidden meanings and varied readings. Rosalie Feltenstein, Max Putzel and Matthew Rebhorn have taken it upon themselves to uncover some of these mysteries in their respective articles, “Melville’s ‘Benito Cereno’”, “The Source and the Symbols of Melville 's ‘Benito Cereno’ and “Minding the Body: ‘Benito Cereno’ and Melville’s Embodied Reading Practice”. While these authors develop different interpretations, the recurrence of motifs concerned with evil, its persistence, symptoms, causes and ambiguity

Both disability and race are oppressing because of prejudices, ignorance, and the formation of societal norms. Ishmael notices he has “unwarrantable prejudices” based on race and that “ignorance is the parent of fear” (Moby-Dick 31, 34). Negative stereotypes about both African Americans and those with disabilities emerged, and societal norms were created surrounding both misunderstood ‘impairments.’ I am arguing that race and disability were each socially constructed and negative norms and regulations were established surrounding the two identities. Nirmala Erevelles discusses the connection between the two oppressing social constructs: “Race and disability, two significant categories of difference that shape the social, have often been conceptualized as analogous to each other. Disability has often been described as being ‘like race’ and race as being ‘like