Gallows

Books do more than just tell stories; they have the power to inspire, educate, and transform lives. For fifty-six years, Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird has been an influential social commentary on prejudice in the deep south. Controversial at its inception for its progressive attitude towards civil rights, the novel has since become a staple in classrooms around the world for its message of equality and compassion. Elie Wiesel’s Night is a powerful narrative of his own…

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The titular character, a black cat, symbolizes bad luck and the narrator’s wife alluded to their superstition that “all black cats as witches in disguise.” The second’s cat white fur depicted the gallows, which draws attention to the theme of death, especially death by hanging. Despite the difference of the white fur, both cats in the story are strikingly similar, and they both lack an eye. Popular legend says that cats have nine lives, and the story…

The French Revolution was a time period of rebellion in the late 1700s throughout France. Charles Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities roughly sixty years after the French Revolution, starting as installments in a magazine then publishing his works into a book. The French Revolution was a time when man was extremely inhumane to his fellow man. This inhumanity is seen throughout Dickens’ novel in many ways. He proves that the cycle of man’s inhumanity to man is never ending when people come to…

The Terrors of Tulsa Tim Madigans novel titled “The Burning” informs the reader about the terrible things that happened in 1921 during the Tulsa Race Riot. Many people were mentally scarred while many others died. Madigans main purpose for writing this book was to notify the reader of the dreadful and disgusting acts that took place during this time. “The Burning” was published in 2001 to educate people, such as myself, that were unaware of these horrible actions. Madigan uses stories from…

Auschwitz: The Horrors Revealed Germany, World War II, in the height of the war, the Nazi’s were in power. In Poland, there was a place that would bring the strongest men to their knees, this place was Auschwitz. World War II was a terrifying time for the Jewish people; Auschwitz killed, enslaved, and experimented with these poor people. In the first and largest camp, the Jews were put to work as slaves; they worked so hard that some of them dropped dead where they worked. Auschwitz became a…

interrogated once again on the night of December 20. “she recanted her story denying any assistance but this time saying that as soon as she struck him the devil got in her and she struck him until he was dead.” Page (135) Celia was marched to the gallows and fell to her death at two thirty that Friday December 21, 1855. Celia final resting place is unknown Robert Newsom’s gravestone and remains are next to his wife in a field just off Callaway county road nine miles South of Fulton Missouri…

America in the early 1900’s can be demonstrated through the case of Leo Frank. The people of Atlanta responded in a way that represents the tensions that filled the crevices of American society. Leo Frank was a wealthy Jewish man living in America during this earlier parts of the 1900’s. Leo Frank was a man that was accused of raping and murdering a young lady named Mary Phagan. Leo Frank was never proven guilty for the crime against Mary Phagan. Although, He was claimed to be guilty of his…

Written in 1759 Publishers: Boni and Liveright, Inc. New York - - - Synopsis: Candide is the start point of satire and optimism within literature, political rhetoric, amusing anecdotes and warped ideology. It's about youth, innocence, control and suffocating cultures - for those who know of my wicked sense of fun, you'll denote it doesn't please certain quarters... although, I haven't had the harsh critique that Voltaire has had from our contemporary civilization; then again secularism is…

59) The attitude of prisoners changes from caring about others to straight up survival. The faiths in the camps are diminishing. One prisoner asks “Where is God now?”(Wiesel 62) Wiesel answers “Where is He? Here He is – He is hanging here on this gallows….” (62). Elie has clearly lost all of his faith in God. This response is a clear sign that he does not care about God or anybody else except his father. Other survivors, like Akiba Drummer, have simply just given…