Character Sketch Cathy Ames East of Eden Cathy Ames was a very interesting character in the book, East of Eden. She was the antagonist in the book. In my opinion Cathy was a very deceiving person. Also, she manipulated many characters from the beginning to the end of the book. She killed her parents because they were to worried about her life, and set up the scene where they were killed to lead to believe that Cathy was murdered.
The next day Victor came to this town and because he was a stranger he was immediately accused of being the murderer. Once Victor realized that the person who was murdered was Clerval, he instantly knew that the monster has stricken once again. After seeing the lifeless body of his beloved friend, Victor again becomes severely
October 2, 2012 Case Brief Cupp v Murphy 412 U.S. 291 (1973) Facts: Daniel Murphy was convicted of murdering his wife in the second degree. After he found out of the murder he called the police and voluntarily submitted himself to questioning. In the middle of his questioning the police noticed a dark spot on his finger and they asked if they could get a sample and he refused. The police did not respect his wishes and they took the sample anyways of what was under his fingernail. They processed it and later found out there was traces of his wife’s nightgown, skin, and blood all from the deceased victim.
As she approached the rive she found herself face to face with her father’s killer. She tried to kill him but he ended up outsmarting her by pretending he was dead. He got a hold of her and he took her on his horse and started to head back when he heard the Marshals approaching. He then called for some of the other thieves that were with They came to his beckoning with their guns blazing. There was a heated gun fight and three of the thieves ended up dead, but Tom got away with Mattie.
Every day she thinks about her mother, she always has flashbacks about the day when her father was being abusive towards her mother. Her mother had dropped the gun that she had in her closet, and that is when Lily went to pick up the gun and accidently pulled the trigger. The climaxes of the story are that Lily’s crush, Zach gets arrested for being with a group of friends when someone throws a glass bottle at a white man. After May hears what Zach did, she commits suicide. Than Lily finally told August the truth about how she killed her mother and how she broke Rosaleen out of jail.
Crime and Punishment Testimony Rodion Raskolnikov has committed a double murder, for he has to be psychologically evaluated by I Dr. Alzubi. We the prosecution is entitled to prove Rodion Raskolnikov guilty on all accounts of murder. I have twenty two years of criminal psychiatry experience; which leaves me to prove Rodion sane while he committed the double crime. Rodion Raskolnikov kills the pawnbroker and her sister; Alyona Ivanovna and Lizaveta. The sole purpose of ripping people off for their money by taking advantage of their poor economic status is immoral.
He was said to be too unfit to stand trial because of his mental state. He told police he dug up the women and killed the owner because he was in a haze. In 1968 Ed’s doctor determined he was insane enough to stand trial on November 14 1968 he went on trial for the murders. The trial lasted a week and he was found guilty of first degree murder by reason of insanity and spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital where he died of respiratory failure, cardiovascular disease. As awful as Ed Gein was, some look at him at as a hero.
A serial killer is a person who has problems and they kill people and some serial killers rape the body after they are done. Alcohol was a big role in it. Alcohol messed dahmers life up he even got kicked out of collage and the army and the killing rate went up. Jeffrey dahmer would lure people into his grandmother’s basement promising sex or money and drug there drink then strangle them and have sex with their corpse. Dahmer killed people and molested them and cut their genitals and skulls off for a souvenir.
While both women endured their brutal murders, they screamed out hoping to stop the killing and receive help from others. In “The Lottery”, Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right” (Jackson 318), and in “Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police”, Catherine Genovese screamed, “Oh my God, he stabbed me! Please help me! Please help me!” and “I’m dying” (Gansberg 121). In Shirley Jackson’s story, the town people are solely responsible for killing Mrs. Hutchinson by voluntarily picking up stones and stoning her to death.
Abigail’s greed was the most destructive to the outcome of this story. She destroyed most people’s reputation in the town. Many innocent people are hanged for crimes they did not commit including John Proctor. Abigail wanted to get rid of John Proctor’s wife Elizabeth, and Elizabeth was charged with consorting with the devil. Abigail new the punishment for the crime of witchcraft was hanging and carried out her accusation so that she and Jon could “dance upon her grave together.”(Act 3) John Proctor is also charged with witch craft; he had a choice of lying about consorting with the devil or keeping his integrity.