The book Article 5 tells the story of Ember Miller. Ember miller is a young teenage girl who fought to save her mother while reconnecting with her first love. Lori Whitman, Ember’s mother, was arrested for violating a section of the Moral Statutes. Ember Miller tried to blend in the best she could to the society around her and avoid attracting attention to herself. She has done everything in her power to try and protect her mother by helping her fly under the radar, but this is not so easy for such a free-spirited person like Lori. The Bill of Rights was replaced with the Moral Statutes, a strict code that governs everything from what people are allowed to read to sexual practices. Ember tries to help her free-spirited single mother fly …show more content…
Making matters worse, one of the arresting officers is Chase Jennings: the boy next door who Ember used to be in love with, but now appears to be a hardened soldier. When her mother was taken, Ember was sent to a reformatory in West Virginia, where girls like her were sent for rehabilitation. While there, she was placed in a room with the student assistant, Rebecca. When she caught her roommate in a forbidden relationship with one of the guards named Sean Banks, she blackmailed them into helping her escape. However, the plan backfired, and everyone was caught. As Ember awaited what was certain to be a severe punishment, Chase arrived with an order to take her to Chicago to testify at her mother’s trial. After they left, she learned that the order was fake and Chase had gone AWOL to help her and her mother reach a safe house in South Carolina. As they traveled toward the carrier who would help them reach the safe house, Ember learns more about what Chase has endured in the past year. Her anger toward him gradually begins to resolve throughout the journey to the carrier. Their plan had to change when they found the man that was supposed to transport them had been shot by the MM. Before he died he told Chase and Ember of a carrier in …show more content…
The streets were full of people either homeless or who worked for the FBR. While making there way deeper into the crowd a riot for food broke out and Ember and Chase were separated. Ember is then grabbed by Sean Banks, who she learns is now a member of the local resistance. Sean took Ember and Chase to the resistance hideout there. This was when Ember was informed that article 5 violators were killed and that Chase was in the room with her mother when she was shot. After finding this out, Ember was distraught about her mother’s death and that Chase lied to her about it. She was so upset that she left the hideout and was captured and taken to the Knoxville detention center. When she awoke in the center, she was bribed by Tucker Morris to reveal Chases location but she refused. She is then placed on cleaning duty and tolerates Tuckers molestation of her in order to find out what happened to Rebecca, who was placed in a Chicago reformatory. As she waited at the center she realized that Chase was not to blame for her mother’s death and he has always tried to protect her. Ember had an escape plan ready but was interrupted when Chase was captured after he turned himself in to help Ember escape. Ember had to revise
Ellen felt humiliated and was very angry with her aunt. She locked herself up in her room. When her aunt came to her room to beat her up Ellen tell her if she tries to touch her she will kill her. Ellen packed her stuff and walked across town to "Foster lady's" house. She hopes that she will take her in.
On Friday April 24th J.P. Walker, Preacher Lee, Crip Reyer and L.C. Davis got into Reyer’s Oldsmobile and they took off on a mission to kill Mark Charles Parker. (3 other cars of men followed) They went to the courthouse/jail in Poplarville and they could not get in. So they went to Jewel Alford’s House (The jail keeper) to get the keys to the Jail. Alford went with the four men to the courthouse. When he got there he went in and down the hall to Sheriff Moody’s office and got the keys to the jail. He opened the door to the jail and Lee, Reyer, Davis, Walker followed Alford into the jail. Alford then opened Parkers cell and Lee and Davis pulled Parker out of the jail and courthouse to the Reyer's Oldsmobile. Alford then left and the men got into the car.
Story, J. (1987). Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press.
Sometimes, people discriminate one thing, but strongly oppose the discrimination of another thing. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, this issue is very much expressed throughout the story. This thought-provoking story takes place in Maycomb, Alabama during a time when there’s a rape trial against a falsely accused African American named Tom Robinson. There is also a discrimination, of sorts, towards a man named Boo Radley, by three young children named Jeremy “Jem” Finch, Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, and Charles “Dill” Baker Harris. Both Boo Radley and Tom Robinson are similar in their own ways through their inherent goodness.
Buck is unable to find work and convinces Tracy to move back to Florida. After losing a game of cards, he goes to rage and beats Tracy again leaving her two black eyes. Tracy moves back to Connecticut, only to have Buck follow her and takes the baby away from Tracy.
One of the major events in Harper Lee’s award-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird is Tom Robinson’s trial. It is based on the Scottsboro Case that took place in 1931 in Alabama, in which several black men were accused of raping two white women. Both the Scottsboro Boys and Tom Robinson are unfairly judged, however, because of prejudice against colored people. The racial discrimination makes whites’ testimony more believable even when it contradicts itself. The same happens in To Kill a Mockingbird. As we delve deeper into the case and get increasingly closer to the truth, it is quite suprising to see that Mayella Ewell is the true villain rather than a victim. She shall and must bear full responsibility for her actions because she makes the decision to tempt Tom Robinson, gives false testimony in court that directly leads to Tom’s death, and has been well aware of the consequences of her behaviors.
Kelle is forced to run back home to avoid these reporters. She calls Rayna straight away. Rayns tells Kelle that Buddy broke out of jail and that they think Kelle drove the getaway car. Her name was in all the papers. She had nothing to do with it. She hadn’t known that Buddy broke out until just then. She was in trouble.
One of the most argued topics throughout history is the conflict of law versus morality. It is hoped that law and morality would work together hand in hand. Unfortunately, there are many instances where law is corrupted and subdues morality. Even in the modern age injustices caused by the law seems like a common occurrence. Literary figures like John Steinbeck and Mark Twain believed that it was important to remain devoted to one's morality, or find new morals when law is corrupted. Through Twain and Steinbeck's most influential works Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Grapes of Wrath clearly show the authors' view on the significance of morality. Examples in the novels include the depiction of suffering caused by the law, the idea of
Lee uses moral instruction to connect the reader to the story and through the use of a literary term called allusion. To Kill A Mockingbird walks us through sins of society and the moral role we play when we respond to others. Atticus points out several time that you should never judge a man “Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”1 Lee writes To Kill a Mockingbird to point out basic morals people should live by and she does this through the life and times of adolescents. The point of view is one in which adolescents, through thoughts and feelings, can connect. The novel also depicts a single father that demonstrates moral responsibility even in situations of difficulty and a world of intolerance, “It’s not fair for you and Jem, I know that, but sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down . . . . this case is something that goes to the essence of a man’s conscious”.2 The story is a faced-paced tale of passage from childhood to adulthood using historical and social settings. It deals with emotions that are...
Many students believe that Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird displays social issues in early America. In this time standing against common customs was unacceptable, a violation of society. People believe that today courage has overcome adversity that was displayed in early America. Courage is the common subject of To Kill a Mockingbird, which allows Lee’s novel to defy the changing times of humanity. These morals are bound to the “impartiality” and “fairness” taught to people as children, but become unavoidably invisible though selfish actions. The characters in To Kill a Mockingbird express audacity along with resilience in the face of cowardice.
The Bill of Rights is dictation of the first ten Amendments to the constitution, written in their inventive form. The most important articles in the Bill of Rights are amendments five and eight, which protect one’s right to a speedy trial and just punishment. In the end of The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, we are able to recognize the necessity of these articles, because combined; they could have helped save Proctor’s life.
These injustices have begun long before Tom’s trial, but it is his trial which epitomizes the problems with our society. The first witness was simply just a misguided fellow named Heck Tate who it seems didn’t have much to offer to the case. Next, Atticus Finch called Bob Ewell to the stand. When I saw Ewell take the stand such a fierce hatred rose within me that I began to shake and tremble. Ewell wrongfully accused Tom of raping his daughter Mayella, however, with the grace of God, Atticus Finch had shown that it was very possible that it was Bob Ewell who because he was a lefty could have beat Mayella. If it were not for great men like Atticus Finch I would have lost all hope for this world. As I watched Mayella take the stand I wondered how such a kind looking person could be someone of such poor character. Her words seemed to paint a picture of a sad life; one where a father neglects her and she has fallen under hard times. Atticus, after pointing out it was probably Bob who beat her, asked Mayella who it really was that beat her. Mayella made it clear it was Tom Robinson, upon which Atticus asked Tom to stand. To the astonishment of the court Tom was handicapped! Tom was then called to the stand where he laid open for all to see the truth, explaining that it was Mayella who came on to him (that treacherous woman!). Soon enough the trial ended and every one awaited the verdict of the jury. The next few hours were the most nerve wracking of my life.
[4] Hickok, Eugene Jr., ed. The Bill of Rights: Original Meaning and Current Understanding. Virginia: University Press of Virginia, 1991
In the Story Catcher in the Rye Holden has a “ideal” view of the world that contradicts his perception in reality. Holdens “ideal” view of the world is that everyone contains childhood innocence and no one should try to break that innocence so people can just be who they want to be and not get made fun of or attacked. In Holden's mind he thinks that everyone thinks like he does and his view of reality is that all the phonies try to break childhood innocence so his reality trys to break his ideal world he has in his head. This unique way of thinking causes Holden to run into internal and external conflicts because not everyone thinks like he does.
Johnson, Claudia. "The Secret Courts of Men's Hearts: Code and Law in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird." Studies in American Fiction (1991):129-139.