Ellie’s decisive ability and her morals are thrown into chaos when she arrives at the family house and finds her dogs dead. She remains in a leadership position when she finds the eldest pet still alive and tells the others to help it while she runs inside to see what had happened to her parents. As Ellie wrote after the traumatic incident, “I knew that nothing sp awful could have happened to the dogs unless something more awful could have happened to my parents.” Although she says she had lost all rational thought. She still made good decision when the tragic events that had happened were unravelling before her. “They lay beside their little galvanized iron humpies, flies all over them, oblivious to the last warmth of the sun”.
Laming Report (2003) Victoria Climbie Details: In 2000 in London, an eight-year-old girl Victoria Adjo Climbié was tortured and murdered by her guardians. Her death led to a public inquiry and produced major changes in child protection policies in the United Kingdom. Victoria Climbie was born in November 1991 in the Ivory Coast. She died in February 2000 in London aged eight. To escape the poverty of Africa, her parents entrusted her to her great aunt who brought her to Europe.
Mr. Wright was found the day before with a rope around his neck in his own bedroom. Mrs. Wright claims someone entered the house as they slept and committed the crime. She did not wake up during the murder, but told no one after she discovered his lifeless body and was sitting in the kitchen when a neighbor, Mr. Hale, dropped and sees that Mrs. Wright is distraught and asked for her husband. When she gestures in the general direction of the bedroom, Mr. Hale proceeds to the bedroom to discover Mr.
The story begins when a farmer, John Wright, had been found strangled to death by a rope while sleeping in his bed, with his wife. His wife, Minnie Foster, has been arrested, jailed, and accused of the murder. The next day, the sheriff and his wife, Mr and Mrs Peter, together with the country attorney and the Wrights’ neighbors, Mr and Mrs Hale went to the Wright house, seeking evidence that might convict the accused. The men came up empty. However, the women, more penetrating in their vision, they piece together the sort of married life Mrs. Wright had lived.
Then, Norman appears on the scene of the murder and hides the evidence, including the stolen money, by putting the body in the car and drowning in in a nearby lake. However, Marion’s disappearance causes her sister and boyfriend to start an investigation, which finally ends at the motel when they discover that Norman is an insane murderer who killed Marion and the private detective, hired by Marion’s sister. Moreover, it becomes clear that Norman has not been living with his mother, due to the fact that she has been killed in her bed with her lover, by Norman ten years ago. Applying a Freudian approach to the movie Psycho, the history of characters becomes of great importance. Norman Bates, the character, who enjoys the attention of this discussion, in his conversation with Marion in the parlor of the Bates Motel,
The novel “Room” by Emma Donoghue involves a young woman being abducted and abused both physically and emotionally by an anonymous man. The abductor misleads the nineteen year old student - later known as Ma - to believe that he was in desperate need of help with his “ill pet”. “The dog was just a trick to get me into his pickup truck, Old Nick’s truck” (Donoghue, 120). He keeps her locked in a garden shed behind his suburban house that he has converted into the self-contained “Room” of the novel’s title; which in fact acted as a very effective prison. The young woman is nineteen when she is kidnapped and within a couple of years becomes pregnant and bears a son, Jack.
Mr. Wolf’s neighbor is Lucy Lane, who has recently divorced from James Lane, and got a restraining order on him that day because of previous emotional and physical abuse and threats to her and Rodney Hill, whom she has been dating for several months. Rodney Hill was found dead on Ms. Lane’s deck, and she found dead in her driveway; both victims received multiple stab wounds to their midsections. James Lane denied that he murdered Lucy Lane and Rodney Hill, but upon a warranted search of his home, police found blood stained clothes in his basement as well as a six inch lock blade knife in his dresser drawer. The blood on the clothing and knife matched the
Marian said she felt fortunate to have found refuge. On the other hand, Nadia was 17 years old, her husband cut off her nose and ear while she was sleeping, she has undergone six operations and need more. Nadia said "I don't know anything about happiness". Another girl Gulsum, was kidnapped by her father, who was estranged from her mother, was forced to marry the son of her father's lover. Her husband and her mother- in- law beat her and threatened to kill
The main thing the story focuses on is the little boy Ellie and his mother Stephanie, their relationship and his behavior towards her. The background on the story is that she is a mother in a Federal prison camp for women in Illinois. She is serving time for conspiracy. Conspiracy is a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful. She participated in an act of violence with her boyfriend and did not talk to the police so they gave her ten years and he talked and received three years.
At the age of 2, Dexter witnessed his mother’s murder inside a cargo crate. She was cut up by a chainsaw; Dexter sat in a pool of her blood for 2 days. He was finally found by Detective Harry Morgan. After the incident Detective Morgan adopted Dexter. Growing up Harry noticed something different about Dexter.