Mad Detective

suspicious man near the scenes of both murders. The only thing connecting these statements was they all described a man dressed as a gentleman. This image of the Ripper is completely different than the working-class images of ‘Leather Apron’ or the ‘mad butcher’. The idea that the serial killer could be a member of the upper class horrified the people of the East End and led to the expansion of the search for the Ripper to the West End. One witness testimony stood out from the rest. Israel…

When your emotions are at play it is really hard to make the decision that you know is correct. My greatest obstacle in life has been to let go of someone I thought I loved and it took a lot for me too. Since I was little I always did everything that my parents wanted me to, I was top in my class, didn’t go out, succeeded in school and never got in trouble. However, there is a point when you finally grow tired of doing what others think is right. I use to hate their overprotectiveness and wished…

a deeper more complex meaning. The first symbol we are introduced to is the orange line flashing across the screen as Will prepares himself to enter the mind of the murderer. The orange line represents a shift in mind for Will. He is no longer a detective, instead a killer. In addition, the orange line can represent the thin line separating good and evil, as all that separates morally good Will and a killer is that thin line. A frequently used, reoccurring symbol is the stag. This ambiguous…

In both of these stories we find that the love struck main characters are cursed to death. In both Romeo and Juliet and the remake West Side story, there are unavoidable deaths between the forbidden love with each other. To put it simply, the characters in this story acted it out of their strong love for each other, which caused death and despair. In the first story, we have a feud between two families. The Montagues, and the Capulets. Romeo is from the Montague family. He is in love with…

“How then am I mad? Hearken! And observe how healthily – how calmly I can tell you the whole story” (Poe 45). The narrator believes that by talking calmly about the murder, he proves that he is completely sane and has his thoughts under control. When encountering a sane…

In Roald Dahl's story lamb to the slaughter it shows how a nice and stable person can get their life changed with just a few words. The story starts off with with Mary Maloney the sweet and loving pregnant wife of Patrick Maloney waiting at home for him to get off work.When her husband Patrick got off work she greeted him at the door “hello darling”(page 1) and he only replied “hello” (page 1) which showed to her that he's not very happy and that he is in a bad mood.She tries to cheer him…

characters, the narrator and an old man. The narrator of the story constantly tries reassuring the reader that he loved the old man. Saying that he held nothing against him. Yet the eye of the old man continually got to him and eventually drove him mad. The narrator went into the old man’s room every night at 12am for seven days, leaving a lantern each day. On the eighth day, the narrator lost it and suffocated the old man until he could no longer hear his heart beat. The last example of tragic…

In one of his most famous works ever, Aristotle describes rhetoric as being “concerned with such things as come, more or less, within the general ken of all men and belong to no definite science”. Rhetoric is such an important literary tool for two reasons: all men use it to some extent and it helps readers analyze other pieces of literature and art. This essay will discuss the latter reason. The art of persuasion has been applied to three different works of literature: We Need Gun Control to…

innocent? In the podcast and transcript, Adnan was a high school teenager, whose best friend is Jay. Adnan was the one that killed Hae which is his ex-girlfriend. A few days after Hae was killed, Adnan got sent to jail for his crime of murder. A detective named Sarah Koenig was investigating whether Adnan actually did killed Hae. When Sarah was listening to Jay when he was being interviewed by a police, he told 2 different stories which gave the police a lot of complications and a hint that he…

In the dead of night, a blood-curdling cry for help could be heard from several blocks away; however, no one is around to hear. A woman runs frantically for her life. She runs this way and that but fails to realize that she is trapped in a maze of houses and alleyways . She yells for help, but like the last time, no one comes to rescue her. The realization hits her as she finds herself trapped between the wall and her killer. Terrified, she turns to face her end. Just as she does, a shot rings…