Redemption

The theme of guilt and redemption is ever-present in everyday life. Humans are notorious for committing acts that they wish to undo, and often struggle to achieve redemption for their wrongdoings to absolve themselves of their guilt. When someone is wrought with guilt, this feeling can take over their mind and can drastically affect the ways in which they live their lives. This idea is best exhibited in the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. More specifically, through two of the…

Limper Mr. Palmer Honors 11 Book Report Quarter 4 2015 March 28 Randle McMurphy is the protagonist in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. He sees himself as the person who can save the rest of the men from the horrors of the mental institution in which they are stuck. McMurphy is a significant character because he acts as a leader among the men in the mental institution. As the novel progresses, he begins to rebel more and more against Nurse Ratched, and the way she rules the institution. When all…

Carl H-Block Final Draft 13/4/2014 What Can We Compare? How does one thinks about the similarity between two completely different worlds? One world is a movie with a hero who just broke out of jail and has encounter bullets everywhere during fighting scenes. Politicians with their unbearable argument also took place in this story. Another world has a hero who just came back from the greatest battle of his life fighting against the Trojans. Gods with godlike power play a major role and the hero…

In “The Power of One”, written by Bryce Courtenay, Geel Piet is a Cape Colored man who was born in District Six and worked in the Barberton prison. He was a dangerous criminal, a rascal, who has been in and out of jail for forty-five years just because of his race. In the novel, Geel Piet is one of Peekay’s best friends who were described as "the grand master in the art of camouflage" and “a conniver, a generous friend, and a stellar boxing coach”(SparkNotes). Throughout the novel, actually,…

“The Town” is a film that released in september 17,2010. Ben Affleck , who stars as Doug Macray, is a lifetime criminal who leads a gang of bank robbers that are extremely good at what they do. Everything is going well until Doug finds himself falling in love with Claire Keesey, a bank manager, whom Doug's crew took hostage during one of their heists. In this film the hero and the villain aren't who you would think they'd be. As you're watching the film you find yourself rooting for the team of…

Peter Vala, a 42-year old man who used his belligerent strength to strangle his girlfriend to death many years ago, is serving a prison sentence for murder. Perhaps you’re picturing him in a maximum-security prison, wearing an orange jumpsuit, surrounded by electric fences and armed guards with attack dogs. In reality, Vala, who has biceps the size of footballs, is being held in a place where many of us would consider a vacation. In Oslo, Norway lies a minimum-security prison, Bastoy, where…

In their documentary Brother’s Keeper (1992), filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky portray the life of Delbert Ward and his take in a court case revolving around his brother’s death. On one side, there are the New York State Police and a handful of locals who believe the Delbert is the one who murdered his brother while they were sleeping. However, the Ward family itself and most of the local town people who through the trial fight alongside the Wards to prove Delbert is innocent.…

In the preface of Philip Zimbardo’s non-fiction book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, he uncovers various reasonings on what influenced him into conducting the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE). Part of his inspiration for writing this book was heavily based on the Abu Ghraib Prison Trial where he was the expert witness to one of the prison guards, Sergeant Ivan “Chip” Douglas, who was convicted of the many tortures and murders of the prisoners that occurred at…

Leah Jennings Gish Screening Essay Seven Psychopaths The film I watched at the Gish Theatre on Tuesday November 3rd with my entire recitation class with Alesa McGregor. The film Seven Psychopaths is written and directed by Oscar-winner Martin McDonagh. The comedy Seven Psychopaths follows a struggling screenwriter (Colin Farrell) who unintentionally becomes intertwined in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell) kidnap a gangster's (Woody…

The film The Wall is directed by Doug Liman which he also directed the film “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.” The Wall is led by three actors Aaron Taylor- Johnson as Sgt. Allen Isaac, John Cena as Staff Sgt. Shane Matthews, and Laith Nakli the voice of Juba an Iraqi sniper. The film is set in 2007 in Iraq at an oil pipeline where Sgt. Isaac and Staff Sgt. Matthews were called on to secure the area after they were informed there was a shootout. When the soldiers arrived, they encountered a sniper that was…