Nemat immigrated to Canada in 1991 and remained silent about the horrors of her childhood for over twenty years. After suffering from flashbacks, nightmares, and being haunted by the death of loved ones Marina kept a diary recounting the events in Evin prison. A good friend read Marina’s diary and encouraged her to publish her memoirs. The author was a finalist in the CBC Literary Awards in creative non-fiction. She has also received the inaugural human dignity award from the European Parliament and a fellowship in Toronto’s Massey College.
In 1990, after fifteen years of marriage, Jesperson got divorced and saw his dream to become a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman. He was unable to follow his dreams due to an injury during training. That same year he returned to truck driving and began to kill. Jesperson is known to have killed eight women over the course of five years. Strangulation was his preferred method, the same method he often used to kill animals as a child.
Eventually it is discovered that Sethe is the one responsible for her daughter’s death—the same daughter that now haunts her home at 124. Sethe does all that she can to move on with life and pretend that the murder never occurred. She speaks about the murder to no one and even when directly questioned, she fails to bluntly answer. Even Denver, Sethe’s living daughter turns a deaf ear to the murder. Morrison writes, “Even when she did muster the courage to ask Nelson Lord’s question, she could not hear Sethe’s answer .
In each of the stories the characters are tested with difficulties such as racism, prejudice, death, or love affairs. These novels show how deeply treasured the American/Canadian dream really is and how much of a struggle it can be to pursue it. Cather’s style of writing is based on her personal experiences with the world. In My Antonia she portrayed
John Ramsey carries JonBenet’s corpse upstairs and sets her in the living room. Patsy Ramsey thrusts herself onto her daughter and begins touching and rubbing her, destroying potential evidence. The Boulder Police Department obtains blood, hair, and handwriting samples from the family and some of their close friends. In domestic homicide cases suspicion falls on the family first. However, the Ramsey’s maintained their innocence from day one.
The Stevensons are a typical Canadian family that consists of both parents and three children: fourteen-year-old Sarah who has been murdered, eleven-year-old Sonia and three-year-old Seth. After the death of his eldest child, Mr. Stevenson is trying to deal with the grief as well as doing everything possible to find the murderer of his daughter. He has found a suspect but he is unable to do anything about it since he has no proof. Mr. Stevenson has stated that he cannot let go of his dead daughter, no matter what impact it has on his marriage, and the rest of his children. Sarah’s mother, Anna, withdraws from the family after the loss of her daughter and moves to California to work in a winery.
Mystery Book Project The mystery book I chose to read is called “Chasing Brooklyn” by “Lisa Schroeder”. I chose this book because when I had read the back of It, I couldn’t wait to solve the mystery of how the main character “Brooklyn” could try to solve how her boyfriend “Lucca” died. This story was about a young girl, who was about 16 years old. Her brother died, and nobody knows how. Then a couple of years later, her boyfriend Lucca died, and nobody knows how!
More than sixteen years have passed since the initial publication of In Search of April Raintree. Because it has been used as teaching text in junior and senior high schools and for university-level undergraduate and graduate courses in literature, women's studies, and Native studies, the story is well known. Due to their parents' alcohol abuse, Cheryl and April Raintree, two Metis sisters growing up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, are separated from each other and their family. Life in a variety of foster homes is typified by neglect, ill treatment, and shame at their Native heritage. Throughout much of the narrative, Cheryl maintains pride in her ancestry, but early on, April decides to deny her Native self as much as is possible.
Her parents eventually persuade her to come back and that she is no longer the homicide suspect in her ex-boyfriend Jason’s murder. It is revealed near the end that her mother, Laura, who pushed Jason off the bridge , killing him, and that he started the fight with her mother when she confronted him on his suicidal attempt on the bridge. Major social points in the novel include the seriousness of the conversations between the characters of the story. The tone of Trixie’s conversations with her dad, Daniel, set the tensity and friction between the two. One other example can also be seen in the
Every Man’s Battle is written by Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker with Mike Yorkey. The purpose of the book is to help readers especially men overcome the sexual temptation and lust. This is one of great book to read for the men. It is reflect real problem in the world especially with some men Christians, no matter they are single, married, teenager, young or adult. The style of writing in this book consists of the examples from authors own experienced and the plans for men to overcome impurity of sexual in their life.