To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb county Alabama, it is narrated by the main character, Jean Louise Finch otherwise known as Scout. Her father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer with high moral standards. Scout, her brother Jem, and their friend Dill are intrigued by the local rumors about a man named Boo Radley, who lives in their neighborhood but never leaves his house. Legend has it that he once stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors, and he is made out to be a kind of monster. Dill is from Mississippi but spends his summer in Maycomb at a house near the Finch's.
The character that I am diagnosing is the main character, Will Hunting. Will Hunting is a 20-year old janitor from South Boston. He had a rough childhood because of his abusive parents. He finds solitude by hanging out with his friends and drinking after his unfulfilling job is over for the day. Despite Will’s demeanor, he has an unbelievable intellect that allows him to skate by most of the time.
The Santak’s Baby Patrick Jordan HDSF 2400 - Fall 2013 Milestone Paper #1 Nicholas Santak and his new wife, Molly Hogan, want to settle down and start having children. However they do not know if they are in the right stage of their life to begin being parents. Nick primarily works the night shift, patrolling the streets of North Saint Louis and when he is off duty he likes to spend a good portion of his time in his favorite South Saint Louis bar, drinking and smoking heavily with his high school cronies. Otherwise he is in the gym trying to keep in shape. Molly has recently been hired at a special needs school, teaching English and History.
That Room Cheryl Sickoll “That Room” by Tobias Wollf is about a young man being forced to confront mortality. The story takes place in the summer on a farm with four men bailing hey. A young man, the boss’s nephew Clemson, and two brothers named Eduardo and Miguel. The young men drove the two brothers to a motel where they were staying for the season. When they got to the motel the brothers offered the young men inside for some drinks.
LITERARY ANALYSIS “WHAT YOU PAWN I WILL REDEEM” Sherman Alexie´s story, “What you pawn I will redeem”, tells an important part of Jackson Jackson´s life, a middle-age Native American alcoholic man who wanders the streets of Seattle. One day, he walks by a pawn shop and sees an old powwow-dance regalia that belonged to his dead grandmother hanging in the window for sale. Jackson tells the pawnbroker that the regalia had been stolen and his “family has been searching for it ever since” (Alexie, 2006, p 14), so the pawnbroker says he would sell it back to Jackson for a thousand dollars but he would only have 24 hours to get the money. So Jackson sets out on his quest with the main objective of getting his grandmother’s regalia back. However he encounters many situations where after making a few dollars and feeling a step closer to his objective, he continues to spend it on nonsense
The Broken Traffic Light: a Symbol of Inertia and Decay on the Reservation Sherman Alexi’s “The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash Red Anymore” presents readers with a sardonic satire about the Indian lives of the Spokane reservation. The short story paints a portrait of Victor and his childhood friend Adrian, idling away two days in the summer, each a year apart, with a mixture of tragedy and survival humor. The initial lines begin on a clashing way, narrating the two friends playing and relaxing on Victor’s porch, and suddenly the character of Julius Windmaker is introduced. Julius is an amazing basketball player, and according to Victor, “he had that gift, that grace, those fingers like a goddamn medicine man”. Julius is seen as a ‘hero’, or ‘savior’ by the Indian community, but he eventually succumbs to alcohol addiction, just like the previous ballplayers in the past.
“Sonny Blues” written by James baldwin is a story written in 1957 told in first-person singular narrative style. The story begins with the narrator, who reads about his younger brother named Sonny who has been caught in a heroin bust. The narrator then goes about his day However, he cannot get his mind off Sonny. He thinks about all the boys in his class, who don’t have bright futures and are most likely doing drugs, just like Sonny. Throughout the story the unnamed narrator struggles to embrace sonny for who is, its not until the end of the story when the narrator goes to one of Sonny’s Jazz shows, where he fully understands and truly fathoms who Sonny really is as a person and musician.
This satiric novel is one that uses irony, and humor to ridicule society in order to bring about change, it begins on the Mississippi river town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, and continues down the Mississippi into Arkansas. Huckleberry Finn is the thirteen year old son of a local drunk who fails to properly raise Huck, because of this for a portion of time Huck raised by widow Douglas and miss Watson who volunteered to care for him in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. While under their care they attempt to formally civilize Huck, this means teaching him about religion, sending him to school, and taking regular baths which for a boy from the woods is a big deal, however as soon as Huck’s abusive, and drunk father gets back in the picture he tries to stop Huck from having a civilized upbringing, and attending school. Huck’s father forces him to live in a cabin in the woods, and often beats him because of his Huck wants to runaway but to him that doesn’t mean returning to civilization “I didn't want to go back to the widow’s any more and be so cramped up, and sivilized as they called it” (TAOHF 29) therefore Huck decides to fake his own death, and using a canoe runaway to Jackson’s Island an uninhabited island in the middle of the river (pg 38). Huck thinks he’s alone on the Island until one day he stumbles upon Miss Watson’s slave Jim who’d ran away after overhearing Miss Watson planning to sell him to New Orleans, which would have separated him from his family.
Ted Jones was called down to the Brunswick Georgia Police Department to be interviewed about a breaking and entering that took place at the Big Daddy liquor store at 123 Glynn Hwy, Brunswick, GA on October 22, 2008 at approximately 0300 hrs. Hi, Mr. Jones I am Officer Armstrong, I want to ask you a few questions about the break in the other night at Big Daddy’s Liquor store two doors down from your home. Could you tell me what happened? Mr. Jones stated the following;” I was at home with my common law wife Pam Smith. We drank a couple bottles of Boones Farm wine and we went to bed about 0245 hrs.
Who, When, and Details on How Jeffrey Dahmer Killed His Victims a. Steven Hicks i. 18 years old ii. found by Dahmer when hitch hiking to his girl friends house iii. Dahmer offered to buy him a couple beers at a local bar iv. occurred in June of 1978 b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j. k. l. m. n. o. p. q.