Life imprisonment

Unbillable hours: A true Store, by Ian Graham, New York. Kaplan publishing. 2010. 320 Pages. Reviewed by Armen Tchapanian. Ian Graham was a Law Associate who worked at the law firm of Latham & Watkins, whom saved the rest of Mario Rocha’s life, and freed him from the murder of which he had no part in. In the book “ Unbillable hours “, written by Ian Graham himself, Graham exposed the story of Mario Rocha—a man falsely accused for murder. Rocha had been put behind bars for a murder, which he…

After finding the true and equal love in Baines, Ada does not need the piano; she yearns to enter into the real life, that is why she first breaks the coffin, and then sinks it into the sea. She has no contact with the real world and other people. She sacrifices her isolation for an attachment to other people and to life. However, as the piano drops into the sea she curiously and purposely places her foot in the rope to go overboard with the piano. We see her being…

“…I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate” (Stranger 123). Meursault, at the beginning of the novel felt like a part of society, but once he had been through imprisonment and trials, he began to realize that he has views that are very different from societies norms, the “cries of hate” would solidify the fact that he really is a stranger from society. Meursault writes,”…Maman was buried now… really nothing…

prayers were always peppered with songs, Igbo praise songs…” (Adichie 140). Aunty Ifeoma’s home is the garden that allows Kambili to bloom, providing her with a positive and love-based perspective of life and religion as opposed to her barren home that suppressed her individuality and voice all her life. Although not explicitly stated, it is undoubtedly the aura of livelihood and freedom within her aunt’s home that opens Kambili’s eyes to the stark contrast with her own, thus being the first and…

by Kafka, The Stranger, by Camus, and Hunger by Steve McQueen all have similar ideas, with imprisonment, death, and a life crisis being major components of each story. As a result, they all have similar existential themes. Metamorphosis, The Stranger, Hunger all focus on grappling with alienation due a massive change in their lives, struggling with the void in relationship to each character’s imprisonment, and their eventual deaths and their feelings about it, but each novel takes different…

Imagine being surrounded with things that make you feel like you’re jumping with joy. There are people you love and care about, they feel the same about you, and you couldn’t imagine your life without them. Now, I want you to picture those very things and people ripped right out from underneath you, and then you are forced to spend to the rest of your days rotting away in a dark cell all alone. There is no one to talk to about your situation and no one to help you. How would you bring yourself…

had the incredible drive and resilience to never give up no matter what he faced. He endured through giving up his Olympic dreams to be a part of the military where his life would never be the same again. He experienced and suffered through a plane crash, lack of food and water, predator attacks, and most of all, Japanese imprisonment (Hillenbrand 125, 162, 197). At these camps, he was tortured, beaten, verbally afflicted, and starved worse than anything a person could ever dream of (Hillenbrand…

she is realizing that she is going to be happy again. The marriage she had with her husband wasn’t the best marriage because they never really got along and that her husband was very controlling over her due to the time period they’re in. that is the life that she has always wanted to…

him to send himself into a state of mental exile from everything he has to live for. Raskolnikov stays at limbo in his apartment drifting in and out of haunted sleep, unable to properly function in his everyday life, "One who undergoes exile is robbed of the very foundation of their life, they are unable to function in the way they have always done and are faced with the risk of insanity (Bartoloni 84). Due to this, Raskolnikov limits communication with others, deprived himself of food, and was…

child”(123helpme). She had this characteristic because she was able to go on and look at the bright side of her Husband’s death. In this case the bright side to her was that she was free from her Husband’s imprisonment as a Victorian wife. Like a child, she was happy to have no control over life, she could now live her life the way she pleased. And the way she was afraid of her realizations, she was afraid of the disappointment that would come to her if someone were to find out about her unusual…