Rival gang members instigate a bloody gang war. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: RILEY (24) a gang member from Karnstreet attempts to rob some bookies, but when an alarm goes off, in a panic he struggles with a man, his gun goes off killing the man. Riley is arrested. Riley’s girlfriend, FAITH, and his “brother” JACK, attend Riley’s court trial.…
In Floyd C. Watkins, the structure of “A Rose for Emily”. Watkins argues that Faulkner had structural flaws, but because he organized Miss Emily’s life in five parts of constant isolation and intrusions appearing all the way up to here death, the story had perfect symmetry. In part one she is approached by the town’s people to pay her taxes. She refuses and slowly starts to withdraw from the community. Part two, has the towns people coming in twice forcefully to collect the dead body of her father and to spread lime all over her yard.…
Kindred: Critical Book Review Kindred, written by an African-American Octavia Estelle Butler, is a novel with the combination of fantasy and science fiction themes about the slavery of African-Americans. This novel is unique and successful as the first person narrative is being used, making the characters more vivid and actual, and the scenario of the first scene truly makes the readers wonder about the following plot. In addition, the context of the book engirdles Afrofuturism while the history of the African-Americans in this fiction is running through the novel. Each portrait of these black people is characterized exclusively even though they all are under the control of the slavery, evincing their hopes through different actions. Through that way, she has tried to imply that even though the inhumane political system once existed in the past era is revised over time, that kind of racist thought still can be buried in people’s mind, just in a subtle, and maybe instinctive, way.…
Slavery. Back in the days, there was nothing that can be compared to its cruelty. But over 100 years after the slavery ended, a practice of extreme inhumane act appeared. It’s a prison camp from North Korea and named Camp 14. The methods that was used against slaves and prisoners are not all the same but both have the same goal.…
deciding instead to take my place” (40). Chaurisse was always given first choice, whereas Dana always received whatever was left over. Soon, Dana began to dress provocatively; surround herself with questionable boys; and go out late. During one of these late-night excursions, she explains her motivations when she says, “I knew he saw the fire in my face, the challenge in my eyes. Save me, James.…
It is often said that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Even as this holds true throughout history, power and more specifically, exerting power over others is necessary for any society to exist. Exerting dominance, leadership and power are animalistic instincts that are necessary to maintain the order of organisms co-existing. Humans, as advanced organisms, face the unique challenge of morality and maintaining justice within societies that have had a history of being unjust because they are undeniably and unchangeably power based. This power imbalance leads directly to inequality and systemic oppression such as racism and sexism.…
When he attempted to rape Dana, after the news of Alice’s death, she kills him. What else is Dana supposed to do, let herself get raped? He died as a crazed and lonely man, and she sacrificed the lives of the slaves of the plantation for herself. It 's worth it, she stopped a cycle of abusive power, but there are scars left over on her body. Therefore, humanity should learn when to stop a person from hurting others, otherwise it may lead to drastic…
In the beginning of the novel, even though Dana seemed to be a bit of a snooty person, she still seemed good hearted and true. However, by the end of the novel, having never apologized to Chaurisse and just giving up the way she did, showed a bit of a darker side to Dana. Her actions…
By making use of the cliché vampire tales and transforming them into a unique fictional novel, Octavia Butler’s Fledgling takes the reader into a different world in which pleasure, hatred and persistence are combined to solve the mysterious life-threatening puzzle of a genetically modified vampire. Fledgling is a novel that exposes the ignorance hatred can create and the strength survival can generate. Nonetheless, Fledgling, like many other books, has its downfalls and confusions. Butler’s last novel expresses everything she believed and stood for, and opens the eyes to those who cannot see our universal issues by placing them in a totally different world. To begin with, Butler gives the reader more than just a book filled with words,…
In the novel Kindred, the main character Dana reveals how she is time traveling to a Maryland plantation in 1967, to conserve her bloodline. However, in this chapter the storm, Dana informs indirectly that Kevin and her made love. Nevertheless, Dana is drawn back to the past to save Rufus once again. Now, this time Rufus ends up with a horrible sickness known as malaria. Further on this chapter, Margret (Rufus mother) reappears after coming out of a mental hospital and is now trying to pretend to be the boss.…
Knowing that she is from the future does not deter him, but heightens his interest in her. After Alice’s death, Rufus tries to force himself upon Dana, and she is left with no choice but to kill him in order to escape. After returning to the future and being left with a permanent injury, Dana visits the site of Rufus’s old plantation house. It was burnt down and many of his slaves, people who had befriended Dana in her travels, had been sold. Dana, knowing the depth of her own pain and struggles with the short amounts of time that she spent in the 19th century, realizes that no matter how bad her own experiences were, they would never hold a candle to those had by all the slaves that were left behind- those who had no chance of…
Anne Rice’s novel Interview with the Vampire (1976) takes the life of vampire Louis Pointe du Lac as the subject matter. A reporter wants to listen to his story so Louis starts to tell how he became a vampire and what he had been through. Louis mentions that he used to be a plantation master and he suffered a lot after the death of his wife while giving birth to their child in 1791 of Spanish Louisiana. Then he is turned into a vampire by Lestat and hates being a vampire after killing people and regretting doing so. He prefers to feed on the animals’ blood instead of killing more people.…
In the novel, Rufus constantly asserts his racial superiority and abuse over African Americans. For example, he repeatedly sexually abuses Alice without anyone saying anything or stopping him (with the exception of Dana and Isaac) as part of his power and privilege as a white man. Though, his cruel and demeaning behavior could be a result of his family and society reminding him that his gender and race gives him authority. In the novel, as Dana is forced to work for the Weylins, she begins to notice an unhealthy pattern between Rufus and his mother, Margaret. She states, "I remembered suddenly the way he used to talk to his mother.…
This quote is referring to Tom Weylin. Dana makes this observation after Rufus tells her that he would not whip her for something Rufus told her to do. In the antebellum south it is important to remember that Dana not a superior to Rufus. She is expected to obey and be submissive to Rufus orders. Dana later does not agree with the generalization of Rufus’s father but realizes in the context of the antebellum south Tom Weylin could be a worse man.…
" The partners hadn 't checked in, and today was no different. They were there to run the prints on the weapon, something they were doing on their own time, away from the forensic team. The knife could lead them to the slain girl’s murderer, she was a friend of theirs, an informant who dished out more than information. The last time they saw her alive, she was dancing for them in a red thong; a body to die for, now laying on a slab in the city morgue.…