Jack Salmon just wished he could have protected his daughter Susie from being murdered, but now all he could do was try to get his revenge. Jack’s life was slowly crumbling. First, his daughter was raped and murdered one day while walking home from school. Then all that followed after that was more bad news. There were investigations and questions but never any answers.
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.
George Harvey- This is the man who murdered Susie. The reader sees through Susie’s eyes all the events in his life, including the murders he committed and the childhood that molded him into a murder. Jack Salmon- Susie’s father, who is determined to find Susie’s killer. Abigail Salmon- Susie’s mother, who cannot face Susie’s death and yearns for a different life than the one she was dealt Lindsey Salmon- Susie’s little sister who faces Susie’s death with a silent, but great wall of grief. Buckley Salmon- the little brother of Susie, who begins to see her after her death These are the main
He goes to see his Father’s old boss and best friend Mr. Sorenson to see if he could help Tanner found out if his mother and stepfather murdered his father. Tanner’s mother warns him to let sleeping dogs lie because Tanner could get hurt. It was a long time ago, this makes Tanner upset and he moves out. Tanner’s mother is all upset about him leaving home and sent Floyd, his Step-Dad, to go talk to him. Tanner is at the Library to visit his Dad’s old boss, to talk about his Dad’s death.
This story is published in the era, which is considered male dominated. Men think that they are superior to woman in the sense that the women stay in the kitchen and are only there for the men to “escape the charge of sneaking” (Fetterley 287). The attitudes of the Sheriff and the County Attorney are so locked into their preconceptions of women, which they fail to recognize Minnie Foster has murdered her husband. When they first enter the house, the county attorney makes a joke about the kitchen not having anything of magnitude. He seems to talk down to the women during the entire story.
Meursault is found guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced to death by guillotine. At the beginning of Meursault’s trial, the judge questions Meursault about why he put his mother in a home, and if it taunted him. Meursault states that he didn’t have enough money to provide for care for her and that they were both alright with living the way they had to because they didn’t expect anything from one another. Meursault’s relationship with his mother was loving, but very distant. The director of the home Meursault’s mother was in, claims that she complained about being put into a home by her son.
In Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles”, she tells the story of a murder investigation of a man named John Wright, possibly by his wife. While the sheriff and the man who discovered the murder investigate the scene, their wives wait in the kitchen and discuss the situation. Their conversations reveal that deep down, they both feel a kinship with the murder suspect Mrs. Wright, and harbor resentment against their husband’s misogynistic behavior. The first clue to these feelings is seen in the very first line Mrs. Peters, the sheriff’s wife, speaks in the play. The county attorney tells the women to come near to the kitchen stove, since it is cold, and while she does step closer, she also mutters “I’m not - cold”(Glaspell, 1916).
Then she goes into summarizing the story of how two women accompanied their husbands to the crime scene, where their husbands investigated and they packed Minnie’s things. While doing this they find evidence that would give Minnie a motive to kill her husband. “Wordlessly, the woman conspire to conceal or destroy the evidence they have found, and to protect Minnie from the patriarchal system of the law” (259) According to Showalter, they use the story “Jury of her peers” in law school to discuss jury selection and analyses of the meaning of the term
Dave Days Ms. colditz 10C 15 December 2012 Why Noah tried to Kill Lucius The Village is a movie about a population of people that isolated themselves in a village the forest because of the belief that the world around them is too treacherous to lead a happy life due to their past experiences. The elders of this village make up fictional creatures to scare the younger generations out of wanting to leave the village. A blind girl, Ivy Walker ventures in to the outside world when the man she loves named Lucius falls ill after being stabbed by Noah, a mentally challenged man living with them in the village. The reasons that Noah stabs Lucius are very simple. The first reason is that Noah has a crush on Ivy and is envious that Ivy loves Lucius.
Symbolism In a Jury of her Peers, Susan Glaspell creates a story which demonstrates how women were marginalized and treated without significance. In her story the narrator never comes right out and states who killed Mr. Hale. Yet as the story develops it is almost certainly Mrs. Wright who committed the murder. Glaspell uses many symbols as a vehicle to illustrate the turmoil and pain Mrs. Wright was in: the burst jars of jelly, the knotted quilt and most importantly the caged bird. Charlotte Perkins Gilman authored The Yellow Wallpaper, and writes a somewhat autobiographical tale about a woman who is slowly descending toward a mental breakdown.