The Streetcorner Man

The temporal setting “oppress the character with the shape of a pendulum” (3) He fears its deadly velocity which represents his final hours of life. He feels terror of the doom that will “cut” his time on earth. As everyone knows, this symbolizes that death is inevitable.

In June of 1984, Richard Ramirez began his criminal career as the “Night Stalker.” Ramirez tormented the people of Los Angeles and killed at least thirteen people. He was a Satanist and he was into drugs and violence. He would break into homes and rob them. This evil person was haunting the citizens of Los Angeles and other counties in California for over fourteen months.

Sir Arthur Evans discovered the Palace of Knossos (Fig. 1) when looking for the legendary labyrinth of King Minos on the Island of Crete. According to the myth, King Minos had a complex labyrinth built to house the Minotaur, a monstrous creature his wife gave birth to. The palace’s construction was a maze of rooms with no logical set up and led Evans to think the palace itself was most likely the labyrinth. The myth states, every year seven girls and seven boys of a young age were chosen as tribute to enter the labyrinth.1 The myth of the labyrinth in connection with the Palace of Knossos can be linked to a right of passage or a coming of age ritual in Ancient Greece. The tributes entered, wrestled with their thoughts and finally emerged as adults ready to take their places in society.

But when each person starts to die in horrible ways like poison, shooting, stabbing. The characters are paranoid and scared for their lives. After everybody dies or so the book states, the police find the victims and start to do an investigation into how they all die. Although the police had good guesses on how the victims died. Their theories were not solved until a while later when a letter in a bottle was found by a fisherman.

Instead, they built a case on the testimony of the victim’s cousin Victor. Toño’s arrest, considering the physical evidence appears to be nothing more than filling a quota. According to trial testimony, Victor says he asked police what Toño’s nickname was and police told him (and for this same reason he found out Toño’s real name); however in his police statement, he said he gave the police Toño’s name and they went to look for him (34:00). At trial Victor says that he shows up at his cousin’s house (Juan Carlos the victim) around two in the afternoon (26:50). While outside, the two of them are blocked off by four men, whom Victor says he knows as Cruiz, Ojitos, Luis and Jose Antonio Zuninga (Toño) (26:50).

The reader’s first introduction to Butcher is crucial in the author’s construction of his character. Immediately, the characterisation of Butcher as a villain is apparent as “With no warning, his hand shot out and grabbed Jamie’s throat, the grip instant and vice-like…”. This characterisation of Butcher (what he says and does) effects the way the reader responds to him and the corruption and violence that he represents. Jamie has done nothing to provoke Butcher, yet is treated with hostility from the very first interaction between the two characters, as proved by the “vice-like” nature of the grip. Another thing that uncovers the traits of a character is what they say. Butcher uses threatening language throughout a new kind of dreaming, such as when he says “One wrong move, son, and your brains are all over that wall” before handcuffing and injuring Jamie. In conclusion, the actions and dialogue of Butcher is a technique of characterisation that Eaton uses to position readers to respond to his antagonistic character and the theme of corruption with distaste, simultaneously advancing the reader’s empathy for

The story opens up with Pablo narrating his own trial, He being charged for illegal anarchists’ activities on behalf of Spain’s Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. The judges demand him to reveal the location of his colleague, Ramon Gris. Pablo tells the judges that he is not aware of where his colleague would be located. He is placed in a cell with two other men while he waits for his verdict. There are two other men in the cell with

The deaths of his parents, sister and brother, all taken by tuberculosis, lead to Edgar Allan Poe’s obsession around the subject of death. This obsession enterprises historically ingenious writings, that did not just scare the reading population by inducing a death at the climax or tying in a death to create a gasp worthy ending. Poe’s historic greatness was his ability to use death as a catalyst, not an end. His stories, specifically short stories, strengthened the idea that the end of a life, has so much more meaning, than just the end. This precision was formed by how Poe ingeniously used the knowledge to not only comprise stories involving the subject of death, but used the stories to create deep ideas of the phantom of fatality. The short stories “The Black Cat,” “The Facts in the Case of M.Valdemar,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” all feature the inventive writing skills of Poe, that have enthralled populations since their publications.

Horacio Quiroga, the author of the short story, “The Dead Man” was considered to be the originator of the style of writing called Criollismo in Latin America. This style of writing is often compared to American literary regionalism, and was most used during the 19th and 20th century. Most of Horacio’s stories deal with the viciousness of the tropical nature in Latin America, which is a common theme among the Criollismo style of writing (“Quiroga). “The Dead Man” is no exception, as the story details a man clearing out his banana grove, ultimately falling onto his machete and dying. This story is significant because the author describes a man’s horrible death in a practical, ironic way that portrays his death as insignificant.

The novella, “chronicle of a Death Foretold”,raises the question of (whether fate controls our lives more than we think). Fate is an important theme in this novel because it can not be changed. Marquez believes that even if you know your fate, you can not change the outcome. Marquez shows that people cannot alter their fate through the plight of the characters Santiago Nasar, Angela Vicario and the twin brothers.

A little research and some discreet tailing led me to his hideout. Manuel was a younger guy, no wife or kids. Not really any family at all so it seemed. That is the case often with my kind though. We often find ourselves isolated from the world. I have seen how he operates. First he waits his prey out. Then he follows them until they are alone. To prevent from startling the target, he uses his badge to make the person settle down. His weapon of choice is a knife. He goes to place them under arrest and claims back up is on the way. As soon as their back is turned to him, with one quick movement in which he has perfected he slits the jugular vein. Although he is quick and clean he has one flaw that I have noticed. No matter who the victim is, he always takes the heart…

                Pedro and Pablo Vicario, being the ones who held the knives that murdered him, are the direct cause of Santiago

The novel “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” by Garcia Marquez recounts the story where Santiago Nasar was accused of taking the virginity of Angela Vicario and therefore killed. The society depicted in the novel is one where appearances are important to the townsmen regardless of the cost of it. Using symbolism, Garcia Marquez exposes the superficial nature of the town and their flaws.

After Santiago is murdered and his body is autopsied, it is revealed “seven of the many wounds were fatal” and some of his organs were “destroyed”. Moreover, when Pedro plans to fatally stab Santiago, he looks for his heart “almost in his armpit, where pigs have it”. Thus by likening Santiago to a pig, Gabriel Marquez emphasizes the significance of the pig knives as a symbol. The use of the pig knives as a murder weapon is also symbolic of the crassness of the decision to murder Santiago. The novel states that the Vicario brothers had less than a day to plan the execution of Santiago, since the were told of their sister’s loss of virginity “a short time before three” on the morning they killed Santiago Nassar. Earlier in the novel, it is also mentioned that the brothers were known to “slaughter the same hogs they raised,” a fact that links to the idea that the twins looked at Santiago as simply ‘another hog to slaughter’, and therefore they used the same weapon to murder

The first victim was Ricardo Manoukian, a friend of Alejandro. The Puccio Clan hold the hostages in their own house and after they receive the money from the rescue, they execute the hostage. After Manoukian is killed, Alejandro feels guilty of his