The Role Of Society In Alexie's 'Fightpatterns'

By the end of the book everyone was okay, they started a new coffee shop, and re started with there lives. Trying to forget the horrible past of what had went down in 1793. Mattie used to be lazy, and careless, but now she 's brave and responsible. She was all alone after her grandfather died, she went through someone trying to rob their home, she had to take care of a child, a little girl, seeing her loved ones die, and her life how she knew it and was used to vanish right before her eyes, see dead people on the streets, not very kept up graves in which they piled bodies in a huge hole and buried them. Her grandfather was one of them.

Necrophilia is not something someone who was first class would do. Everyone in the town thought of Emily has a wonderful person. Some people even described her as, “a tradition, a duty and a care.” (#) The town admired her wealth and her social status. After the civil war, there is still a lot of racism. When Emily’s body was found dead, her servant for someone who is visiting and as soon as he realizes she is dead he “walk[s] through the house and out the back and [is] never seen again.” To him he thinks that the town is going to blame him for Emily’s death even if he didn’t do it.

The manservant is a very loyal person who stays by Emily’s side till her own death. This story is depicted from the neighbor’s point about the lady Emily. It recounts her life as she lived it from an external perspective. The end of the story, however, reveals her beau to be dead for some years, possibly murdered by Emily herself. An important theme in this 1930 story was how the traditions of the South were vanishing as modernism encroached such as new sidewalks.

Another of Lars’ exploits within the movie was the smothering of an innocent dog owned by one of Jeff’s neighbours in the apartment complex in order to help keep any evidence of his murder to a minimum. In a very heartfelt scene the owner of the dog, distraught over her recent loss, cries into the night, admonishing her neighbours for their cruelty shouting ‘You don 't know the meaning of the word 'neighbours '! Neighbours like each other, speak to each other, care if somebody lives or dies!’. This strong line urges the audience into thinking about pushing past the ethical barrier of privacy and testing boundaries because, as shown by the film, a location in which people predominantly live in complete separation to one another isn’t quite the utopia one might set it out to be, and there very much are ill

Janisse tells of an anecdote where Grandma found a snake and called Uncle Perry to kill it. Snakes were looked down as, “the lowliest of creatures” (Ray 179) and would be condemned to death for their natural harmless actions. After the snake anecdote Janisse goes on to explain how her and her siblings were able to enjoy commodities at grandmama’s house that their parents would not let them enjoy at home. They were able to watch television however, once their parents arrive there would be no trace of what they’ve done, a sece=ret kept between the children and their grandmother.

She yelled for help multiple times. People in the neighborhood hear her cries for help but did nothing. Some turned on their lights to see what was happening, one neighbor even yelled out “let that girl alone!” but that’s all he did, seems like the killer stabbed her and then was frighten and left kitty only to come back and stab her again. More than half an hour has passed and still no one has tried to help. The killer stabbed Kitty one more time, this time killing her in near her apartment.

When Emily’s father died, she refused the town from taking his body and burying it. She wanted to keep her father’s body with her and the town was “about to use law and force, but she broke down, and they buried her father quickly” (453). She also hid Homer’s body after she killed him. Emily wanted to keep him with her forever and did not let him say no to marrying her. She bought clothes and a bathroom set to

Both the men in each story take their wives for granted and nothing else. They see their wives not being good for anything other than cooking and being an ordinary housewife. In both stories, the women prove their husbands completely wrong in their own way. In the short story “Lamb to the Slaughter”, Mrs. Maloney was an ordinary wife expecting a baby but when her husband comes home a bears horrible news, she grows furious and kills him. Patrick Maloney came home to bear the bad news not expecting her to beat him over the head with a frozen leg of lamb.

The wives of the two men investigating at her house find her half done kitchen and infer that she was in a hurry. They also find a quilt with messed up stitching. From that they infer that she was having a fight with her husband. Then they find a beaten up bird cage and a strangled little bird in a box. The two wives then uncover it all, her husband didn't like her singing to the bird so he strangled.

The first thing the gray strand of hair symbolizes is Emily’s impervious behavior. Miss Emily is determined to hold onto Homer Baron for as long as she can. She kills him and keeps his corpse inside of the house. The reader soon finds out that Emily is sleeping with Homer’s corpse, because the townspeople find a gray strand of hair on the pillow next to the body. Miss Emily also shows similar behavior when her father passes away as well.

C-Note jumps Beebee and Sudhir gets involved in the fight. Ms. Bailey warns Sudhir to stay out out or he’ll get himself killed. Sudhir then begins to side with Ms. Bailey and begins helping her with food drives for the building. Sudhir is faced with the challenges of telling the police about the voilence or going to jail, he then tries to find other option. He spends the next good portion of the book helping young girls out in the building but is baffled by the fact that there mothers think he’s sleeping with them.