The Importance Of Barney Northrup In The Westing Game

Otis Amber is an excessively important character because he delivers the crucial letters of invitation to sunset towers . Otis Amber is a small , wiry 62 year old man. He delivers the imperative letters for the future tenants of sunset towers. On page one of The Westing Game it states, “ then one day ( it happened to be the fourth of july ) a most uncommon - looking delivery boy rode around town slipping letters under the door of the chosen tenants to be”. Without these letters the whole plot would not happen . Sam Westing needed everyone at sunset towers, for his game later in the novel. In addition , this character adds amusment to the novel.

Kia Parsons and Billy Bunning were to get married soon. In their first compromise, the two had to find a mutually satisfying decision on their wedding cake. The wedding cake can be one of the most important decisions of the wedding. It's used during the traditional cutting of the cake ceremony where the couple completes their first task together as newlyweds.

One of the main characters is Jay Gatsby. His family was not always wealthy, Jay was born on a little farm in North Dakota. After he started working for a millionaire he dedicated his life to making sure he would be wealthy. Gatsby had made his riches through illegal activities. Jay met

The Westing Game starts out with the delivery of six letters signed by Barney Northrup, to six different households on the Fourth of July. The letters offer a once in a lifetime chance to rent an apartment at the new and luxurious Sunset Towers, located on the shores of Lake Michigan. However, in the movie, Sunset Towers was located in the city. In the book, Sunset Towers was built mostly of glass and stood five stories high. Noticed in both the book and movie, Sunset Towers oddly faces east instead of west where the sun actually sets. In both the movie and the book, Barney Northrup manages to rent all the apartments out to the six hand selected households, which includes the Wexler family, the Theodorakis family, the Hoo family,

The Westing Game movie had many differences from the book. The first detail the viewer of the movie notices is the change in the Sunset Towers setting. The book had it as a brand new building with one-way glass on the shores of Lake Michigan. This setting was designed to show the rise is social stature for the new tenants, especially the Wexlers. Grace, in the book, was always concerned with upward social mobility. On the other hand, the movie portrayed the building as being rundown and in the heart of a bustling town. The Sunset Towers was also home to a coffee shop and doctor’s office in the lobby and Chinese restaurant on the 5th floor in the book. Because of changes or removal of characters, the movie had no doctor’s office or coffee shop and the Chinese restaurant was on the first floor. Many of these changes were a result of characters being left out of the movie that served a prominent role in the book. The Westing Game novel used eight pairs of heirs to work on solving the murder of Sam Westing, but the movie only used five. The paired heirs were put together in the book to help each other grow as people. For example, Denton Deere was a self absorbed intern who only was concerned with himself. His partnership with the crippled Chris Theodorakis allowed him to grow and change into a caring human being, while Chris was presented opportunities for new medications to control his disability. One of the biggest changes from the book to the movie was the normalization of the Grace Wexler character. The book portrayed Grace as a social climbing snob only concerned with the marriage of her oldest daughter, Angela. Her second child, Turtle, was ignored and the result was Turtle kicking the shins of many people. With the elimination of the relational element in the movie, Flora Baumbach, a new mother figure in the book, was not needed so Turtle was

This story takes place during the 1920s on Long Island, in the cities of “West Egg” and “East Egg”. It is narrated by Nick Carraway, a stocker broker who works on Wall Street. He

The book To Kill a Mockingbird is historical novel that takes place in the 1930’s. In the book the author, Harper Lee, uses three characters to show how many hateful and racist people are in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. These three characters show how the town is racist and hateful towards them or their way of life. Tom Robinson is one of the three characters that was treated hatefully because he was african american.

West Eggers are the newly rich; the people who have worked hard and earned their money in a short period of time. Their wealth is epitomized on material possessions. Gatsby, like the West Eggers, lacks the traditions of the East Eggers. He is considered 'new money', in the sense that his wealth came to him more recently through his own success. Although Gatsby is now a part of this class, his faith and belief in the success of his dreams has allowed him to preserve some morality. Nick Carraway, the narrator of the novel, lives in West Egg and exhibits honesty in this place of superficiality. Clearly the West is able to preserve some ethics while the East is not able to grasp any. Although West Egg is the more moral, it is still a place of superficiality and materialism.

“The Most Dangerous Game”, a short story by Richard Connell, is about a man named Sanger Rainsford that falls overboard on a ship and ends up on a mysterious island. From there he finds civilization and he meets the thrill-seeking General Zaroff that hunts humans to fix his craving for an adrenaline rush. Overtime, the general insists to compete with Rainsford by hunting each other and in the end he got the best of General Zaroff. Sanger Rainsford is a major character that greatly advanced the plot with his dynamic personality and his meaningful actions. From his intelligence and bravery he is able to conquer General Zaroff and prevent anybody else getting hunted by the evil and inhumane General.

When in a complicated situation, it can get you to be a better problem solver. This idea is demonstrated by the protagonist and very well developed hunter, Rainsford, in the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell that being stuck on Ship Trap Island to fight for survival against the antagonist, General Zaroff, is difficult if you don't think deep and clear. This is demonstrated in a part in the story, for example, towards the end of the story when Rainsford is in a situation where General Zaroff was getting closer to finding him, causing him to think really deeply about his past experiences and think deep within him. Rainsford proves throughout the story that he is an intelligent, confident, and a curious type of man.

In An Interrupted Life and Letters From Westerbork, the diary entries of Etty Hillesum, a twenty-nine-year-old Dutch Jewish woman who died in Auschwitz are published. Hillesum’s letters show this young woman’s search for identity and a meaning to life. By reading Hillesum’s story, one is able to look deeper into the Christian stance on immigration, but more specifically, the Christian call to care for all people. In a Diary entry from December 18, 1942, Hillesum writes about leaving for Westerbork, a detention and transit camp in Hooghalen, northeastern Netherlands. Westerbork was a place where Romani and Dutch Jews were assembled for transport to Nazi extermination camps and concentration camps. In this particular letter, Hillesum writes about

Sifting through the multiple essays and applications, Wester's eyes skimmed past the lines and lines of neat words. He didn't give a crap about the filled in forms—after all, the Head Gamemaker position was to be assigned by he himself. Forms and applications would give the hopefuls too much power, even if it were fleeting and false. Wester already had his final two choices: Aurelius Dens and Rya Lupus. The former was a loyal-to-the-end-but-naive person, unable to betray... or fully reach the full potential of Head Gamemaker, while the latter was a huge history buff, but a woman.

Anyone reading The Westing Game will realize by the end of the book that each pair of heirs is perfect for each other in one way or another. But because of the way they support each other from Denton helping Chris get an operation from Chris helping Denton by inspiring a change in his life it is obvious that Chris and Denton are the most perfect pairs of heirs in the Westing Game. They might not win but they build a friendship that will last a lifetime. And that’s a win win.

The two stories Stray and Washington Iviring: Rip Van Winkle both answers the question how do our conundrums impact who we are. In the story Stray Doris’s father did not let Doris keep a stray dog, but after Doris’s father went to the pound he found out that the pound is not a very nice place. In the Washington Iviring story a man named Rip van winkle was getting tired of Dame van winkle’s constant nagging and then runs off to the mountain for 20 years which seemed like one night.

In the beginning of this novel, Nick caraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, a wealthy but not fashionable area populated by rich people. Nick is unlike all the other people in West Egg, he was educated at Yale and has social connections in East Egg. Nick’s next door neighbor in West Egg is a strange man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a huge Gothic mansion and throws parties every Saturday night.