Words That Kill Quotes

Decent Essays
Words That Kill
“Your words have power, use them wisely.”This quote says, Tords can harm people or help them. Just like in the case of Michelle Carter. Where Michelle used her freedom of speech to convince her boyfriend Roy to kill himself. There is proof of Michelle trying to convince Roy. One of the proof would be how she messages him and the words she uses. Another proof would be that Michelle did not take any action to stop what he was doing. The third and most important is that when Roy was suffocating she did not do anything to help Roy, Michelle just listen as her boyfriend died. Michelle also pretended like nothing happen and kept living her life and as days passed she later on told her friends that she thought Roy killed himself.
…show more content…
After she send this message Roy responded "I do want to. but like I'm freaking for my family. I guess."(The text messages that led up to teen's suicide). This shows that they were talking about Roy taking his own life. There is many more quotes to prove that she is trying to convince him. In the messages that were shown on the court implied to Roy taking his life. They were not talking about anything else that uses this kind of words. One last quote that shows this is "You're gonna have to prove me wrong because I just don't think you really want this. You just keeps pushing it off to another night and say you'll do it but you never do". (The text messages that led up to teen's

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Ron Paul once said, “We don’t have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things. Cheryl Churchill and Cindy Waters worked with each other at a local hospital in Illinois. Churchill made statements against Waters to a nurse interested in transferring to the obstetrics unit (CYNTHIA). Churchill was fired from her job due to her actions.…

    • 1019 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    As a kid, Roy Burgess, always hung with the wrong crowd of people which got him in trouble. Roy and his so called friends would steal cars and stuff of that nature. One day Roy was at the lake with Kevin which was one of his friends and shot him in the head, at least that is what the eyewitness said. Roy was a kid who did not make good decisions. He was lost without any direction.…

    • 221 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the novel, Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede, the main character Cimorene is a princess that wants to do different things a normal person would do. She refuses to be proper, she is bored because she can’t do anything normal person would be able to do because of her parents saying it not princess like. Cimorene goes to the dragon’s cave and meets Kazul then they are best friends kind of because Cimorene helped Kazul when she was poisoned with dragonsbane that Cimorene brought home to ask what the purple spiky leaf was then the ashes got into Kazul’s lungs then she got sick and that is how Kazul got sick. Cimorene went to the dragon’s lair and was then wanted to be a princess because a dragon wanted a princess named Kazul. Kazul was Cimorene’s friend because she helped her by killing off the wizards with Alianora and the Stone prince she found at the jail for intruders with a bucket of water, lemon juice, and soap suds.…

    • 451 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    It is only just a few words that could hurt someone permanently and affect someone in just one second.…

    • 502 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Unbroken Quotes

    • 750 Words
    • 3 Pages

    In the words of Gail Devers, “Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong.” In the nonfictional, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini, being the clever man he is, demonstrates Dever’s words though the 36’ Olympics, a treacherous trek in the Pacific, and in many Japanese POW camps. In his early days in Berlin, Louie already began expressing his mischievous cleverness.…

    • 750 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The Natural, authored by Bernard Malamud is an incredible novel that touches the surface on many human emotions such as insecurity, love, and most profoundly pride. Pride and overconfidence are two obstacles the main character Roy Hobbs faces through the entire story. Roy has a dream, though he may be older he feels now it is his time to become the greatest baseball player to have ever existed. Roy has had earlier setbacks and therefore is not allowing anything in his way this time around. He has an attitude in which he not only thinks he is the best, but knows he is the best.…

    • 1228 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. ”-…

    • 766 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Rough All Over Quotes

    • 443 Words
    • 2 Pages

    When Cherry said, “ Things are rough all over”, she meant that the not only the greasers or socs have problems as a gang, but people in general have their own problems. Pony boy “But after the night of the beating, Johnny was jumpier than ever, Johnny never walked by himself after that.” (Hinton 34) This quote from the book said by pony boy, helps us understand that things are rough all over by introducing Johnny saying that he was terrified after one incident. This quote explains that things are rough all over as well as Johnny was also in a situation that was intense and he was scared because of the beating that happened, because of that he has always carried a switchblade in the back of his pocket in case something like a beating happened again.…

    • 443 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    After reading Brandon Jones’, “Rhetorical Criticism of a Online Discourse,” I came to the realization that online discourse communities are very similar to real life discourse communities. With this in mind, I would argue that when using the internet, people should be treated with the same respect that they are receive in real life. Often times this is not the, as evidenced by Jon Ronson’s article, “How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life,” which tells the story of how even a senior director of corporate communications at IAC may not always treat people with the respect that they deserve. In an era where such an emphasis is placed on the prevention of cyber bullying, inclusion, and equality, one would think that mutual respect would…

    • 1133 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The freedom to speech is very important to many Americans. However, many wonder if some speech should be prohibited especially while online. This is because it is harming, slandering, or hateful. The best way to evaluate this issue is through Deontology. This is because every American has a right to free speech, according to the constitution, they also have duties and consequences that come with being able to say whatever they want.…

    • 764 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the poem,"Minerva Jones" by Edgar Lee Masters ,he writes about the sad life of an old crippled lady who was hated. I learned that this person is a writer of poetry and isn 't very pleasant looking from how Masters describes her. The person she speaks about in the poem are "Butch" Weldy and Doctor Meyers, who have different poems of their own as well. " Butch" Weldy is the one that hunts down Minerva (Goddess of Wisdom) and Doctor Meyers is the one that attempts to save her. The poet lets us know that small-town America is very judgmental because you can say that those who were wise were the ones being judged("hunts") by their appearance and their beliefs.…

    • 1001 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I’m tired of everyone exclaiming that they have a right to freedom of speech. She has an opinion. He has an opinion. And their only ammunition is that they have right to freedom of speech, so they continue to carry on with their foolishness. I wished that we were a communist nation that had strict laws that prevented citizens from expressing their feelings about social, political, racial and even sexual dilemmas that one may face daily.…

    • 617 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Censorship and the effect it has on social media. The world has been changing over the years and with it society has been changing as well. Now, change might not always be for a negative result but it can confuse many people; in their way of thinking and even the way of behavior. There will always be people trying to express themselves in ways other people do no understand and think it is wrong because that was the way they were thought and raise.…

    • 591 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Every person has a moral obligation between separating what the state says and what they believe. The battle between the state and the individual can cause some controversy such as the topic of censorship. Some wonder if it is right that the government or a big company can obstruct books, news, movies,etc. An abundance of power should not be given to one person, but instead to the people with a voice. The opinions and beliefs of an individual should not be obstructed or it can be detrimental to the society.…

    • 1176 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Freedom of speech can be debated on whether or not there should be boundaries to it or not and on what is considered freedom of speech. The First Amendment affirmed that "Congress shall make no law...abridging freedom of speech" but based on www.legal-dictionary.the free dictionary.com it states' All speech is not equal under the First Amendment. The high court has identified five areas of expression that the government may legitimately restrict under certain circumstances. These areas are speech that incites illegal activity and subversive speech, fighting words, obscenity and pornography, commercial speech, and symbolic expression'. On this information and amongst other I believe that freedom of speech is both restricted to a fault and abused.…

    • 980 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays