The book, Acceleration, by Graham McNamee, is about a boy named Duncan, who works at the city’s Lost and Found, discovers a leather diary that belongs to a serial killer that Duncan nicknamed Roach, who is on the loose. Duncan finds out that Roach is targeting humans, specifically women, and tries to find the killer and stop him before it is too late. The main topic of this story is that mystery can make us do the unexpected. Once, the killer writes, “This is kids’ stuff… Need something BIGGER” (Mcnamee 47). Also, when Duncan was searching up books about murders, a certain passage from a book caught his eye, “Mason Lucas has a name for this ‘escalation of increasingly destructive aberrant behavior’... He calls it acceleration”(Mcnamee 88). …show more content…
After Duncan discovers what the author is going to do to some people later on, he decides to take matters into his own hands and catch the criminal. Normally, Duncan would not go and chase down a criminal, but after he finds the book, he decides that fate has brought the book to him. When Duncan is trying to track down the criminal, he thinks, “But the thing is, who knows if he’s picked out new targets by now? … Or if he’s already done it! … What if I’m already too late?” (Mcnamee 62). This quote proves that, when one does not know something important or kept in the dark for too long, they will start to rush to conclusions, and make assumptions that are mostly wrong because they do not take the time to think before they make their predictions. When Duncan finds the book and discovering the mystery of Roach, he constantly makes decisions like chasing down the murderer, or breaking into the criminal’s own home, things that he would never dare to do
His conscience also doesn't spare him when he does anything wrong. Two years ago when he was unsuccessful in saving a drowning girl, it haunts him. His conscience bites him that he could have saved one life. This shows that Duncan is a nice person and is willing to save anyone. Also Duncan is very caring about her girlfriend and takes care and watches out for her. Also when he found out about the serial killer, he was determined to save the targets that he was planning to kill. He
* Duncan, Vinny, and Wayne are all friends working - or wasting time - the summer before senior year in high school. Duncan is the soul, Vinny the brains, and Wayne the muscle. At the end of the previous summer, Duncan tried to save a drowning girl and failed. Not being a hero has really affected his life, particularly his relationship with his girlfriend Kim. Also, he is now terrified of swimming, especially when the nightmares come back. Duncan's summer job is with the public transit lost and found. While trying to make the hours go faster, Duncan looks through the items, especially the books and golf clubs. One day he discovers an unmarked journal with no name, which depicts sadistic animal torture
On July 21st, 1956, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mary Connelly and W. Michael Connelly gave birth to a baby boy named Michael Connelly. Thanks to his mother, Connelly, at a very young age, was introduced into the mystery and crime genre of writing. By the age of 16, Connelly’s interest in mystery and crime was expanded when , on his way homeward from his job as a hotel dishwasher, he saw a strange man throw an item onto a hedge. After seeing the man throw a strange item, Connelly decided to investigate the matter, and found out that the strange item was a gun covered in an old lumberjack shirt. Following the discovery, Connelly left the gun where he found it, and followed the man who threw the gun into a bar, then he left to report the events
The detective genre is recognizable by the mystery that it represents or establishes. Every word of a fiction novel is chosen with a purpose, and that purpose on a detective novel is to create suspense. The excerpts from The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, Murder Is My Business by Lynette Prucha, and Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley, create an atmosphere of suspense and mystery. Even though they all fit into this category, there are some differences that make each novel unique. The imagery that the authors offer in the excerpts helps the reader to distinguish the similarities and the differences.
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Why did his imagination lead him to killing Duncan or seeing Banquo at the banquet?
Theme 3-overturning the natural order of things is bad: Duncan is being compared to nature itself, killing him will have no good outcome
As seen in the book, crimes of murder and illegal possession are committed when the main character begins to deviate from modern everyday life. This type of behavior is also very common in our world today. In all cities, the absence of crime is very rare. It can be observed in our everyday life and is also subjected to many individuals. In many cases, people commit crimes over their own strong
Duncan is the most unlikely character to be killed because of his personality, but because he is the King of Scotland, Macbeth loathes him. In the play there is very interaction between Macbeth and Duncan, showing the little time in which Macbeth gets more power. Prior to the witches’ prophecies Macbeth is loyal to Duncan, and would never imagine killing him. After the one of the witches’ prophecies comes to be true, the thought of killing Duncan, Macbeth "yield[s] to that suggestion / whose horrid
The novel is a literate, complicated, tight, a little offbeat and sometimes funny novel following the sleuthing life of amateur detective Joe Sixsmith. Joe Sixsmith is still a run of the mill, regular Private Investigator that lives quite the interesting life dealing with all manner of bizarre clients. Being on the bottom rung of private detectives having just started his investigative agency. His most exciting case for months has been a case in which he was required to investigate a man whose wife thought was teaching. But all that changes when a series of unexplainable coincidences occur in his life and leads three clients to him. These are disparate clients that soon lead him right into an intricate investigation that will tax the energy and intelligence of the amateur detective. One man comes to him saying that he dreamed of a murder and that he is best placed to report it so that the police can act to prevent it. Another client comes to him asking that he investigates an immigration mix up that had led to her husband being held at the airport for days. Another lady believes that someone is out to get her because she is a witch and wants him to investigate who the person could be. It would seem that there are connections between the three cases though at first glance Joe cannot see how they could be related. However, the lives of several people may be in danger if
This is shown many times throughout the play; she thinks she can do everything that is needed to be done with killing Duncan, because she is not a “coward” but when it comes to her making the attempt to do so she chickens out because she finds Duncan to resemble her father to much when he is sleeping. She tells Macbeth everything will be fine as long as he doesn’t show his fear. She does not understand that she has a much stronger conscience then she is aware of. The play reads, “Only look up clear; / To alter favour ever is to fear: / Leave all the rest to me.” (Act I, v, 79-81) This statement is very important because it shows that Lady Macbeth is very confident in herself. She is saying that Macbeth just needs to stand there and look pretty, and sell himself to everyone mean while she will plan out everything else, involving this horrid murder. Much later in the novel she starts to feel very guilty for the murder of Duncan, and eventually falls ill, ridden in guilt. Lady Macbeth has mentally wired herself to act as though nothing will get through to her, it is like she is an iron wall, she thinks nothing can get through, but in reality, the wall is nonexistent, and her conscience is very strong, it is just not present at the necessary times. As well as Lady Macbeth’s blindness to her conscience and guilt, she is blind to the consequences that come with doing
Because Macbeth is influenced by unnatural forces and decides to kill Duncan, his charge of being found guilty verifies the fact that one can’t escape the consequences of his or her actions.
At this point he feels that his life is very bleak and he is generally feeling very awful and worthless. However, almost immediately after he says this he manages to cover up for the murder of Duncan by lying to Macduff about the killing of the stable boys who he alleged had murdered Duncan:
Following Macbeth's murder of Duncan, Macbeth becomes frightened and unsure of himself. He begins to regret his actions and realises that this will remain on his conscience until his own death.