The Adventure Of The Speckled Band Essay

In “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle described the investigation of the mysterious death of Julia Stoner. The story took place on the Roylott estates of Stoke Moran, where Helen Stoner lived with her stepfather, Dr. Roylott. Helen’s sister, Julia, died a fortnight prior to her wedding of an unknown cause. Two years after her sister’s death, Helen Stoner heard the low whistle that Julia had described to her. With her approaching wedding, this aroused a feeling of uneasiness inside of her.

The timeless book, To Kill a Mockingbird was published in the year 1960 by Harper Lee. This is a fiction book with a couple of thriller scenes involved. The main message of the book is one that unravels at the end, but not over the course of the book. In this book Harper Lee tries to show that our world kills people through innocence just because of differences or other small disputes.

Thornton tells the story of Talma Gordon to his Canterbury Club in Pauline Hopkins’, “Talma Gordon”. The conversation to start the story is about interracial relationships. He tells the story of two sisters, Talma and Jeanette who were set to receive their father’s inheritance. There was a fire one night and their father as well as their step mother and brother were killed. Talma was accused of the murders but was found not guilty.

Sophocles’ claim for this text is: Even if you are powerful and looked at the person you have guilt. Even if you are not sure if it is there or not you still have somewhere in you. Oedipus is a powerful leader and saved his city from a sphinx by solving a riddle. He ran away from his home trying to escape his fate stating that he would kill his father and marry his mother. Little did he know that the parents he ran away from adopted him.

Antigone killed herself and her fiance, Haimon, tried to kill his dad, Creon. Haimon died by accidentally stabbing himself. Creon was the last person in the family alive and the play foreshadows his suicide due to the loss of his family. In the play, there is an epic hero.

Little did Jackie know, that her Aunt Lois’s seeming easy and benign task of finding an acquaintance from her grandfather’s past, Curtis Martindale, which he bequeath a sizable amount of cash would be the catalyst of her political conscience. Early, she is challenged with the murder mystery that takes place in her grandfather’s store. Her odyssey of self-discovery, takes her to South Central, Crenshaw, Little Tokyo and Downtown Los Angeles where she learns their relevant historical significance. Our protagonist is confronted with the racial conflicts and prejudices that dictate how people reacted to one another in the past and present.

Dear members of the board, As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner, is a novel that should be read at some point in one’s lifetime. The themes in the novel are relatable to all and even transcend Faulkner's era; however, the language may not be entirely suitable to all. The story follows the Bundren family and the impending death of Addie Bundren: wife, mother, and friend, who is very ill and is expected to die soon. Her oldest son, Cash, utilizes his carpentry skills to build her a coffin and her only daughter, Dewey Dell, had intimate relations with a farmhand she knew resulting in an unwanted pregnancy. She is so overwhelmed by her state that she barely mourns her mother when she finally passes away.

Introduction 100 words In this film called The Dressmaker directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and a book called Jasper Jones written by Craig Silvey they will be comparing and contrasting the use of themes in the film and the book. Revenge in The Dressmaker happens when Tilly burned the town; in Jasper Jones Eliza burned her home. Then in Family Tilly and Molly has a rough start but when Tilly came back they turned out to be happy with each other, while in Jasper Jones Charlies mum and Charlie are happy at the start but went downhill very quickly when Laura disappeared. The themes are revenge, death, and family.

In the poem, “Daddy" by Sylvia Plath, the speaker, a young girl, shows herself as a victim who trying to once and for all set herself free from her “daddy 's” grasp. Though her daddy died when she was only 10 years old, the ghost of him still haunts her. In this poem the speaker creates a figurative image of her father, using strands of metaphors and analogies, to describe the relationship she, the speaker, had with her father. The girl in the poem seems to not know sincerely how to feel towards her father as she ends up going through this journey throughout the poem, discovering just who her father truly was. At a young age, the narrator viewed her father as this godly figure, to her, he was a “bag full of god”.

Summary: "The Case of The Lower Case Letter" begins with Edith Nettleston entering the detective's office. Edith wanted the detective to look at her dead husband's, Professor Edgar Nettleston, suicide note to see if there were any clues to where lexical semantic location. The lexical semantic paper is worth a fortune of money and lectures tours. The detective was able to figure out the clue left behind by the late husband, find the missing lexical semantic, and figured out that Edith Nettleston's husband did not commit suicide, but was murdered. Direct & Indirect Characterization of the Protagonist:

The plot foundation for “Invitation to a Murder” written by Josh Pachter was based on situational irony. Throughout the short story, there were many examples that portrayed situational irony. The first instance occurred at the beginning of the story, when the author described what Mrs. Abbott was wearing. He described her outfit as being black and solemn-looking, something that would be worn to a funeral. This was due to the fact that she knew her husband, Mr. Abbott, would die that night; she wanted to be prepared to mourn his death.

“Invitation to a Murder” Essay As the author of “Invitation to a murder” portrays a suspenseful tone during the story, Josh Pachter creates many situational ironies throughout the story. The setting of the story is on the evening of December 16th, 1971, at Eleanor Madeline Abbot’s home. The short story begins when Chief Inspector Lawrence A. Branigan received a letter inviting him to the murder of Eleanor Madeline Abbot’s husband, Gregory Eliot Abbot. Branigan decided to go to the event. When Branigan Arrived at the event, he realized that there were eleven other men present.

In chapters 16-20 of the novel, “Cue for Treason” by Geoffrey Trease, Kit and Peter went to the Peel tower to look for Tom Boyd, as he did not come back from the tower the night before. Peter went in and Kit stood watch for anyone coming. Peter discovered the plot of the situation because he overheard two men talking. The plan was to murder the Queen. The murder would happen in the middle of the play, King Henry the Fifth.

Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, The Scrivener” gives the reader a task to try to construct who Bartleby is when all the information known about him is through the title of his job “a scrivener” for the lawyer’s company on Wall-Street. The lawyer attempts to control Bartleby time after he joins him just like he has been doing with his other employees who he has already figured out but is stunned when he suddenly sees a change in his work ethic and responds with “I would prefer not to” (Melville 1489) whenever he is told to do something at the office. “Bartleby, The Scrivener” is representative of how readers tend to analyze pieces of literary works and this is shown through the lawyer and his attempts to figure out his employees, especially Bartleby, through the use of corporate control. Turkey, Nippers and Ginger Nut are the other three characters/employees in the short story who have been figured out by