Hangings
The Ballads of Sharyn McCrumb published The Ballad of Frankie Silver in 1998; compared to another novel by Sharyn McCrumb The Ballad of Tom Dooley, a novel published in 2011. In both of these novels, two people were hung, two people showed their love for others, two people killed, and two lawyers appointed by the court. Although McCrumb wrote both novels, she based both on facts found in North Carolina’s History. Both have similar characters and are both written and researched novels.
Ballads usually are mostly about murders that have occurred, as some do in both of these ballads. Charlie Silver met his tragic death by his wife Frankie Silver who kills him with an ax (277). The Silvers were a young couple living on a mountain with a baby. The murder happened after Charlie came home drunk, yelling because the baby kept crying, and saying he is going to kill the baby. These details gives readers a view of what caused the murder. Frankie’s murdering her husband is not the cause of her hanging as much as what she did after she killed Charlie. The way Frankie cut her husband into pieces is the cause for the hanging. It’s not the way Frankie killed her husband that caused her to hang but the …show more content…
“One thing that makes the case particularly hard to decipher is the case is a four-sided love triangle” (Olsen) for Tom Dooley. The Foster family had to endure the loss of Laura, by the hands of Tom Dooley, like the words written in song about “the enteral triangle about a beautiful woman and a condemned man” (Woloch). The Silver family along with the Stewarts both had a major loss to their families. The Silvers lost their son by the murder commented, and the Stewarts lost their daughter for the murder she commented to Charlie Silver. The families not only had to endure the loss of their family member but also the loss of a family member that commented the
The Ballads of Sharyn McCrumb published The Ballad of Frankie Silver in 1998; compared to another novel by Sharyn McCrumb The Ballad of Tom Dooley, a novel published in 2011. In both of these novels, two people were hung, two people showed their love for others, two people killed, and two lawyers appointed by the court. Although McCrumb wrote both novels, she based both on facts found in North Carolina’s History. Both have similar characters and are both written and researched novels.
Ballads usually are mostly about murders that have occurred, as some do in both of these ballads. Charlie Silver met his tragic death by his wife Frankie Silver who kills him with an ax (277). The Silvers were a young couple living on a mountain with a baby. The murder happened after Charlie came home drunk, yelling because the baby kept crying, and saying he is going to kill the baby. These details gives readers a view of what caused the murder. Frankie’s murdering her husband is not the cause of her hanging as much as what she did after she killed Charlie. The way Frankie cut her husband into pieces is the cause for the hanging. It’s not the way Frankie killed her husband that caused her to hang but the …show more content…
“One thing that makes the case particularly hard to decipher is the case is a four-sided love triangle” (Olsen) for Tom Dooley. The Foster family had to endure the loss of Laura, by the hands of Tom Dooley, like the words written in song about “the enteral triangle about a beautiful woman and a condemned man” (Woloch). The Silver family along with the Stewarts both had a major loss to their families. The Silvers lost their son by the murder commented, and the Stewarts lost their daughter for the murder she commented to Charlie Silver. The families not only had to endure the loss of their family member but also the loss of a family member that commented the