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Flowers For Your Grave Essay

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The tv show series Castle is an exaggeration and dramatization of an individual's underlying motivations in the workforce. In the first episode of Castle “Flowers For Your Grave”, the protagonist Rick Castle is connected to a murder after a killer mimics techniques from his novel. An accomplished mystery writer, he insists on assisting the detective on the case in order to get a feel for the “story”. In order to do so, he uses his connections with his friend the mayor of New York City. At first detective Kate Beckett disapproves of Castle due to his lack of qualifications but later softens when he proves his capabilities. The episode puts forward at first glance an idea that is very important in the work force. Does talent truly trump …show more content…

When asked By Kate Beckett in the first episode why he was following her around, he responds “for the story”(Castle, Flowers For Your Grave). This makes the character seem very two dimensional and self interested. What is not revealed until much later in the series however, is that when Castle was a young boy of all but 11 years old he encountered the body of a young girl in the woods and was confronted by her killer who decided to let him go. The reason why he became a mystery writer was because he was never able solve the mystery of the girl’s death due to her body never being found by the police. Castle choose to stay by Beckett's side in order to research his character, but what kept him there is the same reason why he wrote books, in order to solve mysteries. Again, one can see this underlying message in the plot of the series. The relationship can be both positive and negative as it pushes the individual to become a better person, but also becomes their obsession, as seen in both characters. In addition, Kate Beckett also has a childhood trauma. Her mother was a lawyer who was killed because she got tangled into a conspiracy. Detective Beckett decided to become a detective in order to have a position in the force where she could investigate her mother's death, as well as become a individual who delivers justice to the victims families without cutting corners. What made Kate Becket go from Stanford Law to dective was her mothers death, what kept her was her love for her

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