A Man Lay Dead

couldn’t afford a good attorney and he wasn’t completely happy with the representation that he had. So the nun that he had written a letter to, came to visit him in jail. Now the nun was asked by the man accused to help him. People would see this as somewhat of a conflict of interest because the man was accused of murder and rape, and the nun wasn’t supposed to take sides. But for the nun wasn’t an ethical dilemma, she was comforting him in his time of need, and at the same time she was trying…

for them unbearable news” (114). Specifically the black men were in constant fear of being lynched or punished for a crime they did not commit. For example, a used-to-be sheriff warns Momma to tell Uncle Willie to lay low because the “boys” also known as the Klan were out after a black man messed with a white woman. That night Uncle Willie hid in a bin covered with potatoes and onions (17-18). The black men were not safe, and suffered because they had to hid and be…

Sweat dropped from Tom’s face, his body physically and mentally exhausted from the lack of rest received . Amongst him lay distraught battle hardened men whom “kill or be killed” was their only motto. The sound of gunfire going from trench to trench made him shiver. men lined in the tight and compacted trench where they would await their destiny which lay over the trench. The mud grabbed hold of Tom’s feet and sucked him deeper into the mud. he was well built structure with strong broad…

The long June nightfall blurred into night. Dublin lay wrapped in haziness yet for the diminish light of the moon that shone through warm mists, giving a pale light a role as of moving toward sunrise over the avenues and the dull waters of the Liffey. Around the ambushed Four Courts the overwhelming weapons thundered. All over through the city, assault rifles and rifles ended the hush of the night, uncontrollably, similar to pooches yapping on solitary ranches. Republicans and Free Staters were…

Smith's account also stated that the men fired at the soldiers from other hiding places. Contrastingly, Wood's testimony claimed that not a single man in Captain Parker's camp fired a shot. Another difference is the initial interaction between the two groups. Wood's statement claims the lead officer said, "Lay down your arms, you damn’d rebels, or you are all dead men – fire” while the…

The message in A Raisin in the Sun deals with familiar bonds. Throughout the play Walter Younger undergoes a series of trials in which he starts to view as hardships. Though if it weren’t for his family he may not have recovered to the respectable man he is. The epicenter for the help he receives from his family stems from the deep love. This is seen in the last seen of the play when Lena Younger explains what being a loving family really means, “when do you think is the time to love somebody…

Readers of Joseph Faulkner's As I Lay Dying have interpreted the message of this novel and the reasoning why Faulkner chose to write a novel like this. Some audience members argue that it is an uplifting and hopeful book while others choose to argue that this book is a way of “presenting human existence as a complete joke.” While there might be some events that happen in the novel that could convince readers that this novel is about having hope in humanity, there are more indicators that…

in his eyes. He dropped to his knees in disbelief, unleashing a scream that made my blood curdle. My dad dialed 9-1-1 on his cell phone; his hand trembling and his voice barely coherent as he tried explaining the situation he kneeled in. My dad, a man who always remained so collected and level headed, was a hysterical mess on the floor by my lifeless corpse. "Not a pretty sight, is it," inquired Quinn with a sense of sympathy and insight. He floated over to the smoky gray curtains that draped…

Crossing", is accompanied by a hearse and a dead wolf in order to convey that all creatures are united through death. The story has a 3rd person narration where the reader is looking into the story. The speaker looks upon the scene of a man in search of a place to bury the dead wolf. The man cradles the blood covered wolf with a gentleness that is parent like. Men and animal are alike in this novel and the man realizes this as he searches for a place to lay the wolf. This wolf is no longer and…

home, my lord” (3.1.133). She even tells her father of all Hamlet’s madness, that Ophelia and Polonius both end up telling the King. Ophelia is so intuned with her dad, once he is dead she becomes mad with grief, but she was holding it all in. “We must be patient: but cannot choose but / weep, to think they should lay him i’ the cold ground” (4.5.69-70). Ultimately both female characters make the same decision in killing themselves for their loves. Juliet even fakes her death for her love. And…