Derailed is a story about an innocent man who works in an advertising company, and suddenly involves in something he would not imagine; having an affair, being terribly blackmailed, and wanted by the police for a murder, all because he misses his usual train to work one day.
Charles Schine, a husband to a schoolteacher named Deanna and a father of Anna, his adolescent daughter who suffers diabetes. One day, he is late for work, so he rushes to catch his usual train. As the ticket inspector asks for his ticket which he forgets to buy, he finds himself penniless. Suddenly, an alluring woman named Lucinda Harris, pays for his ticket voluntarily. Surprised by the action, Charles approaches the woman and insists on paying back her money. Later, they begin to chat and Charles discovers that Lucinda is married, and also has a daughter.
The day after tomorrow, they meet again at the train. Undeniable, their mutual attraction grows, as they begin to meet more frequent. They start to have lunch together, drink at a bar, and consummate their affair at a hotel in Manhattan. When they walk out of the door, suddenly a hidden attacker dashes into the room, beats Charles fiercely, robs them, and rapes Lucinda for many times as the injured Charles watches the ‘bad porn’ helplessly. The attacker threats them to not to tell the police about the crime, which they agree in order to keep the affair as a secret from their spouses.
The following day, Charles receives a call from the attacker who calls himself Vasquez, and asks for $10 000. Feeling desperate, he takes some money from Anna’s medical treatment fund to pay Vasquez. A month later, Vasquez calls again, and this time he demands more - $100,000. Later on, Charles feels that he...
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...I’ve finished my reading and conclude that the author, James Siegel has made such a wonderful and exciting work! Undeniable, Derailed is a novel packed with suspense, surprises, and awakening storyline, which made it as a genuine thriller novel. In fact, the core or the main theme, violence and cruelty related closely to the story and the author has successfully revealed the theme in a creative way. Moreover, the plots in the novel were like related and bonded together, which has made the story aligned, coherent, and easy to understand. The setting and the language used in the novel symbolizes the background of normal American life which makes the reader feels like they are related to the story indirectly. The cover of the novel gives a good impression about the storyline to the readers; an illustration of train and a silhouette image of a woman with alluring body.
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With only a dollar twenty-five, Madame Haupt helped Ona give birth, but failed to give them their life. With that dollar twenty-five, Ona lost her life and left Jurgis alone forever. That same day little Kotrina earned three dollars, Jurgis took it and got drunk. This American lie struck him hard, the least he can do was to get drunk and forget about life for a while.
overcome before he can move up in the Hollywood society. Todd’s life begins to go downhill as he
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...erwhelming that it makes the reader feel as if they’re a part of the fictional world created in the story. If Cortázar’s audience responds to “Continuity of Parks” in the same manner The Reader responds to the novel, the end of the story will feel like a vivid dream where it becomes hard to separate the real world from what they were imagining. A true author’s responsibility is to create a world compelling and stimulating enough to allow the reader to lose their self within it. However, losing yourself can prove to be somewhat of a dangerous act, as it’s no coincidence that The Reader’s novel concerns themes of murder and betrayal. The story ends with a suggestion that the immersed reader is, at least metaphorically, on the brink of death. Cortázar implies that becoming engrossed in fiction is both a goal worth striving for and a way of losing hold of your identity.
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...it up to each reader to draw their own conclusions and search their own feelings. At the false climax, the reader was surprised to learn that the quite, well-liked, polite, little convent girl was colored. Now the reader had to evaluate how the forces within their society might have driven such an innocent to commit suicide.
The next morning at about 5:00 AM, Patsy found a ransom note on the bottom of the staircase. The note described the kidnapping of JonBenet and demanded $180,000 or JonBenet would be killed. Patsy quickly went to JonBenet’s room and, just as the note had stated, she had been kidnapped. Patsy called her husband and they then contacted the police, who arrived quickly after being called.... ... middle of paper ...
...nd enjoyable. The one thing that did bug me was that Youngs does not directly tie his thesis directly to the end of the book. It would have been helpful for the reader to be able to confirm Youngs’s intention for writing the book, but since he fails to re-introduce his argument in the end, it left me questioning that intention.
Such a series of tragic events has a great toll among the two main characters (Cox ) . For a vicious, careless indivi...
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“Orient Express is arguably her most enduring work as far as the average reader goes, due to the daring gimmick the author was able to pull off: they all did it ("Murder on the Orient" 155). This critical comment made by Greg Wilson gives an accurate depiction to the mystery that Agathe Christie builds up in her book. The Murder on the Orient Express has many aspects that played big roles in creating the novel. The way the author uses the aspects, such as plot, setting, the author 's style, and the characters are what made the book suspenseful and intriguing to the reader.
The novel progresses at rapid rate and the irregular pace can be likened to that of a drug addiction novel. As if the author himself in select chapters in the book has decided to 'shoot up on smack' before typing away on his keyboard. The other way the n...