Davis Grubb's The Night Of The Hunter

Tony Horwitz, the author of Midnight Rising, spent most of his career as a newspaper reporter often overseas covering wars and conflict. Horwitz grew up in Washington, D.C., which is close to Harper's Ferry where John Brown’s raid occurred. Horwitz was inspired to write Midnight Rising while passing through Harper’s Ferry during his travels to various Civil War landmarks during the time he was writing a previous book, Confederates in the Attic. The remarkable characters and the exciting events that ensued ultimately moved him to write Midnight Rising.

The first similarity between these two characteristics is that they have limited views of their wives. Throughout the story John constantly thinks of the narrator as a child. First he puts her in a child’s

Imagine living in a city where hundreds of people go missing in just 6 months. Then, we find out that on person is suspected of killing over 200 people. This serial killer, is Herman Webster Mudgett, common alias H. H. Holmes. It happened at the Chicago World’s Fair when the head architect, Daniel Hudson Burnham, attracted so many people to Chicago, missing people went unnoticed. Although through historical records, letters, and documents, we know Burnham and his intentions, were good. In Erik Larson’s, The Devil in the White City, Holmes and Burnham are polar opposite brought together by the Chicago World's Fair. Holmes represents evil while Burnham represents good. However, they do have two things in common, their negative perspective about women and their want for riches.

“You ought to know by now I wouldn’t stay away . . . No matter how it stormed. Twice a week before we were married I never missed - and there were bad blizzards that winter too.” This foreshadowed the discovery made by John later on, followed by his fateful death. Wanting to take care of his own father who lived only miles away, John was dedication to his father and his wife was unwavering.

“When you know the truth it will drive you insane”. The quote by Aldous Huxley perfectly encapsulates what happened to the character John throughout Brave New World. John idolizes the World State and always has wanted to go there. Since he has lived on a savage reservation his whole life he’s never known the luxuries such as “soma” and “feelies”. John has evolved a great deal throughout Brave New World, he started naive and hopeful, became skeptical of the World State’s greatness, and ended depressed and angry.

Howard Thurman removes the window dressing in the African American experience of segregation in America. Thurman in his book, “The Luminous Darkness” paints an obscure portrait that delved deep into the consciousness of Black men, women and children freshly freed from chattel slavery. Two hundred years of slavery and one hundred years of darkness seeping into each soul perpetuated by an evil explained only through the Word of God. Although this book was published in the 60’s, the stigma segregation continues resonate in the souls of those who remember and perhaps even in the souls of those who do not.

Tobias Wolff is a writer known for his memoirs and realistic short stories. “Hunters in the Snow” is a story about three friends, Tub, Frank, and Kenny, who go hunting in the snow. Wolff writes about humanity through the friendship of the three friends and the events they go through.

John is aware that both the maternal and paternal forces threaten him in some way, but as he delves further into the mystery of his origin, the threat of assimilation into a white, educated and female culture becomes dangerous to his own existence and must be avoided at all costs. Moses' death officially marks the recognizable

gods being human. He is a well developed person. You see every aspect of John.

The version Perrault had Little Red Riding Hood had a cake and a little pot of butter her mother gave her to take it to her sick grandmother’s house. So off she went to her grandmother's house into the woods where she was found by the wolf. The wolf had asked her a lot of questions only to find out where she was going so that he could later eat her. With the questions, the wolf had found out she was going to her grandmother's house then tricked her into giving him the location. He took the straight path making it first while Little Red took a roundabout way. The wolf had made it to the house and then ate Little Red's grandmother. Then he waited in the grandmother's clothes for Little Red. When she got there she knocked on the door and the wolf told her how to get in. then Little Red began questioning the wolf in her grandmother's clothes. Little Red had ask her last question “Grandmother, what big teeth you have got!” The wolf then ate Little Red. The story then

After knowing the truth John feels the need and excitement that it is his destiny to spread the truth and what is actually right. Upon returning and spreading the new truth John thinks, “And yet not all they did was well done... their wisdom could not but grow until all was peace” (pg.320, line 329-330). Even though the Gods were described as wise and great their civilization still failed and perished, this is because you can’t get knowledge when conflict is present because it is hard for humans to accept the truth. John finds out that he was taught things that weren’t even true, but this excites him because he is ready to spread knowledge of his own and let out the real truth.

“In a Dark time” by Theodore Roethke gives a retrospect into the inner turmoil’s of finding oneself through a haze of doubts in till reaching a moment of clarity. Each section of the poem describes a different emotion, or inner thought that spirals from fear of death, to emotions of desire. The use of imagery between nature and uncertainties of the narrator give a glimpse into Roethke’s own mind during the time he wrote this poem. Without hundreds of pages Roethke created a poem that connects readers to their own self-doubts and struggles of finding ones way again.

Unlike animals, humans are able to observe past the mere monochromatic vision of survival. We have an impeccable ability to desire more than just living to breed, and breeding only to someday perish. Thus, we gradually brush this canvas with the colours of ethics, control, and knowledge. Whether the colours fade or become prominent through time, this canvas becomes our perception of normality and we allow it to justify our actions; favorable or harmful. We, as well as the narrator in the short story The Hunt by Josephine Donovan represent this. However, because of the narrator’s difference in perception, self-indulgence, and greed for power, the story introduces a feeling of infuriation to the reader.

John saw God do a lot of great things. John wrote about when Jesus turned water into wine. Jesus was at a wedding when the host ran out of wine. He did not know what to do. Jesus told them to fill up the jars with water, and then said take some to the master of the house. The man who took the water was very nervous, and did not think it would work. When the master tasted the water and it was wine. John also wrote about Jesus healing people at the pool. Jesus saw a man lying by the pool wanting to get in. But every time he would get close to the pool, someone else would get there

John poses a series of questions about the validity of the Prophet Muhammad and his teachings. Since Christ was foretold in the Prophets, he asks “How is it that your prophet came without having others bear witness to him?” Then, he mocks Muhammad by suggesting that because the scriptures appeared to him in his sleep, he must have been “spinning in his dreams.”