Amber Lee Ettinger

Great writers create great characters. In the novel Native Son, Richard Wright created a distinct character named Bigger who is a poor black man who lives on the south side. Bigger accidentally kills a famous white female and he kills his girlfriend Bessie. Bigger later becomes persecuted by the police and sent to jail. At the end of the trial, Bigger is sentenced to death. Analyzing John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and O.J. Simpson will describe that Bigger could exist in real life.…

With the outrage of the people, no response was returned by the kidnapper. Instead only when John F. Condon, a public school principal offered a reward for the return of the child and published a letter to the Bronx Home News did the kidnapper respond. Condon “idolized” Charles Lindbergh and thought him as a “national treasure.” He also, like the general public, was incensed upon reading the news. To him this event was becoming a “national shame and disgrace.” Thus he wrote a statement,…

As with almost every superhero fan I know, I fell in love with Tom Holland’s Spider-Man in last year’s “Captain America: Civil War.” As such, despite some recent lackluster attempts at Spider-Man movies, I was extremely excited for Holland’s solo outing, even though Spider-Man is not one of my more beloved superheroes. For the most part, this movie proved a satisfying picture. Set a couple months after “Civil War,” Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Holland) is eager to become a full-fledged Avenger. He…

Throughout history and still to this day, female oppression, patriarchal values, and standard gender roles of girls (and boys) have been very common in the United States, especially in the American South. Written by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic tale of two kids, Jem and Scout, along with their father, Atticus, living in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. Living in a town with prejudice and discrimination toward many different groups in particular females. This makes it…

Good morning ladies and gentlemen of the jury. We are here today to address the case of Alexandra Finch versus Atticus J. Finch. The plaintiff is seeking legal custody of Scout and Jem Finch, on the allegation that their father is a neglectful and absent guardian, therefore rendering him unfit to raise them. My client should continue to have legal custody of his children for he provides them with adequate care and useful life lessons. While my client provides for his children and teaches them…

To Kill a Mockingbird is a story about two young children with a wide range of maturity and imagination. The setting takes place in Maycomb, Alabama in the summertime ending quickly. There is a little girl named Scout and her older brother named Jem. Their father is Atticus Finch who is an attorney and state legislator for Maycomb. The book opens up about an incident when the kids met Dill who comes in for the summer and spends it with their next door neighbor, his aunt. In the incident, Jem…

Both Maya Angelou and Lawrence Ferlinghetti explore the idea of inequality in their poems ‘Caged Bird’ and ‘Two Scavengers in a Truck Two beautiful people in a Mercedes’ respectively. Angelou explores the inequality between black and white people by comparing and contrasting a free bird to a ‘caged bird’ while Ferlinghetti describes inequality between the rich and poor by comparing a wealthy couple with a couple of garbage men. ‘Caged Bird’ is written in response to the civil rights act, with…

BJ in Tears of A Tiger and Maddie in Lucky In Love both try to find a greater good in other people and sometimes even themselves. BJ was trying to blame himself for Robs death but kept trying to find a way around it. He wanted to not feel guilty and to prove to himself that he was good, he wanted God to forgive him. Similarly, Maddie had recently won the lottery. More people had been coming up to her than usual and she couldn’t figure out who had good intentions and who had bad. She found one…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a movie filmed in 1975 based on Ken Kesey’s same named book. The movie is about the conflict between the two main characters Randle McMurphy and Nurse Ratched. McMurphy is a criminal who is guilty of raping a fifteen year old girl and pretends to be insane so that he can escape from his punishment. In the asylum he meets people who are going to change his life and also he is going to change their lives. The movie has lots of hidden meanings. They are about…

Historical events support the theme of challenging the power structure in both Pleasantville and To Kill a Mockingbird because when characters challenge the power structure, there purpose is to achieve equality for everyone in their society. In the movie Pleasantville Bud and his sister Mary Sue are transferred into Buds favorite television show, Pleasantville. In Pleasantville everything is black and white and every family wants to be viewed as the perfect family. They follow a very…