The Key By Nnedi Okorafor Short Story

On May 29, 2007, Folole Muliaga was tragically passes away due to Mercury Energy’s unethical action and heartless behavior to shutdown the electricity power of the home of Folole Muliaga on the same day. Mercury Energy argued that Folole Muliaga unable to pay her electricity bill of $168 which prompted to the disconnected of power. This horrifying decision and action led to the failure of the oxygen machine and the death of Folole Muliaga. However, according to her family, the remaining balance owed was $34.44. Both parties, Mercury Energy and the Muliaga family claimed other was at fault of the death of Folole Muliaga.

Queenie Valupides is a young lady that is a suspect in the killing of her husband. Queenie Valupides is guilty for murdering her husband because of the fact that she was home alone for ten minutes, they have had a fight just a few hours ago, and there is a pan cooking on the stove and nobody has been at the house for a few hours. There is no evidence to a person being in the house while she was away. Although mr. Volupides dead body gave evidence that he had been drunk. The police can look at the fact that she had been at the house before her friends.

Looking at the overview of this case in reference to Andrea Pia Yates; she experienced some psychological issues due to the fact that she had her first suicide attempt by taking an overdose of pills and was diagnosed with a major depressive disorder by the Methodist Hospital psychiatric; after being release she began to self-mutilate and refused to feed her children because she felt they were eating too much and she began to hallucinate; on July 20 she put a knife to her throat and begged her husband to let her die; and later she killed three out of five children by drowning them in the bathtub. [1] The truth to the matter is I think she was a little more than just insane. She needed some serious help that she didn’t receive. She wanted to

It was said that his mom taught him to whistle before a hard word. Emmett Till since the age of five suffered from polio. The white clerk didn 't know and was insulted and told her husband. Emmett Till was kidnapped, tortured, and killed by J.W Milam and Roy Bryant, husband and friend of the clerk. When they found his body they couldn 't identify it.

Beneatha’s money too?” (29) after she finds out he just blew all of the money. This quote emphasises the discomfort and pure shock and disappointment of Mama at losing all of the money. Mama also cries in the play, "You mean your sister 's school money, you used that too?" (29) revealing her discomfort and despair in this quote shows just how upset that she is that Walter has gone and blown all of Beneatha’s money that was going to be her future on his little gamble. This indicates Walter has forgotten just how much this means to his family and that now he has put his own greed ahead of his sister’s future.

Edmund Kemper also known as the Co-ed Butcher was born on December 18, 1948. He had a very troubled childhood. Once his parents divorced in 1957, he moved from California to Montana with his sisters and mother. Kemper’s mother was a raging alcoholic; she was critical, always blaming him for problems that occurred. When he turned 10 she forced him to move into the basement of his house, that way he couldn 't harm his sisters.

She mentioned that her father was treating them badly, and torturing her mother and her sister. I felt sorry for her because she told me that one day, she had witnessed her father yelling at her mother for some money to buy alcohol. At that time, her mother was screaming and crying, as she couldn’t tolerate being hit by him. Then her mother took her daughters and ran away to her grandmother’s house. Till one day, the father showed up at the grandmother’s house.

Gertrude is the little girl who never really saw it coming, when her father yelled for the family to follow him her aunt that was holding her turned back as it said in the text “Well, i kicked and scratched and bit her, and gave her a terrible time, because I wanted to be with my father.” (Page 104). Her aunt made a terrible decision and almost got her killed for it, With major luck, however she swam over to a mattress and was saved by a man on a roof as it is stated in the text “Then he pushed loose and jumped into the current. His head bobbed up, then went under again. Several more times he came up and went under. Gertrude kept screaming for him to swim to her.

She did this after getting into an argument with him, in which he told her that he was going to be leaving her. In the second story, by Susan Glaspell, Minnie Wright finally cracked after years of abuse from her husband. She ultimately shattered when he broke the neck of her canary, which brought her the only bit of joy in her gloomy life.

Soon later Tate went up stairs to tell his mom that Eunick was not breathing. Then he proceeded to tell his mom that she fell asleep and she had fallen off the couch and bumped her head on the table. When the investigator started to investigate he invited Mr. Tate and what the investigator found out is that the two were wrestling. So the investigator asked what moves did he use Tate demonstrated on the investigator. This was an absolutely brutal beating, that left poor Tiffany with 35 injuries.

A three months pregnant teenager was declared dead after her mysterious collapse at her home in Honduras. Her family members called a priest believing she was possessed by an evil spirit when they saw the teenager fell unconscious and foaming at her mouth. Relatives of Neysi Perez, 16, said that the teenager woke up in the night to use the toilet when they saw her passed out after hearing a gunfire outside. They recall that the priest who came tried to exorcise Perez but became unresponsive. They rushed the teenager to the nearest hospital but was pronounced dead by the doctors three hours later.

You can see the full extent of her suffering when she sobbed the truth to August “It was my fault she died. I killed her” (241) and when she torments herself with thinking that she is unlovable. Lily even describes that her words had “broke open her heart” (242). This shows how captive Lily is over her mother because, despite loving her life at the Boatwright’s house, she can still move past the death. Lily’s suffering increase after finding out that her mother had willingly left her behind with T-Ray and begins to question why?

First his wife, Mildred, attempts suicide by swallowing a bottle of sleeping pills. Then, on work duty an old woman chooses to be burned alive along with her books. A few days later, he hears from his boss that Clarisse has been killed by a speeding car. He soon sought out the answer if he was really happy, and searched it in the books that he had stolen and hid in his air vent.

(An autopsy done by the Stark County Coroner’s Office concluded her death was a homicide by virtue of neglect.) He spoke of how the brothers admitted knowing their mother was unable to take proper care of herself in the weeks immediately preceding her death. Delores Bevington lost the ability to get up and move and clean herself, and was confined to a couch, onto which the urine and feces from her decomposing adult diaper had spilled. The diaper also was filled with maggots and bugs and her thighs and buttocks were covered with open sores and one patch of blackened and rotting flesh, noting the evidence was so overwhelming it contradicts the claim they were unaware of the seriousness of her condition. As for why Knowling opposed Gary Bevington’s release and not Dennis Bevington’s, during sentencing he said he believed Dennis was truly remorseful, but was too weak to act.

Children at the same age as Perry, 13, will one day be in a home where they have to survive on their own, then the next they are in an orphanage. The mother of Perry Smith passed away soon after she left his father. The battle she fought was an enthusiastic battle with alcohol, the next day she lost and choked on her own vomit, this was probably the worst experience of Perry Smith’s life. When Perry Smith’s mother died, when she left the children, they moved into a Catholic orphanage where Perry got beaten for wetting the bed. The author, Capote seems to achieve a feeling of sympathy for Perry Smith, because his childhood was a series of unfortunate events.