The character that changed the most in the novel King of Torts is clay carter. Who is a public defender working at a very busy law office in Washington D.C. In the beginning of the novel Clay carter just wrapped up a three year long case that he lost and only makes enough to survive. Clay gets assigned to another case that looks hopeless for him and his defendant. I believe that clay has changed throughout this novel because he started with nothing and was so humble. He then started up his own company and was making an enormous amount of money and then got to greedy and lost everything.
6.) The end of the novel King of Torts was very unexpected. The plot itself kept going up and down. The ending was surprising but no very effective, after clay lost his law office due to being sued for malpractice, he was being investigated by the FBI due to alleged tips that we was conducting insider trading. To get the FBI off his back he had to give up his license to practice law, after doing so his colleague that he was so generous to gave Clay and Rebecca money and a apartment in london. They both moved to london In the end of the book and never looks back. I think this was a great way to end the book especially after the fact that you though clay was going to go jail and didn't and it
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What I think what would have happened is that the FBI would have contacted the CIA and would have started to look at leads and carry out a further investigation on Clay and Rebecca. Find out where they were and catch them, but then Clay would have been stuck in a stick position on either to turn himself in or continue to be on the run and Rebecca in more danger than what she is already in. I would hope clay would go on the run and end up faking their own deaths and move to some warm island and end the book knowing they are safe and no one is going to catch
One character that changed in their story was Andy from “On the Sidewalk Bleeding.” At the beginning of the story, Andy was proud to be a champion, proud to be a Royal. He was not ashamed of who he was. In “On the Sidewalk Bleeding”, it states, “He could remember how happy he was when the Royals had taken him...There had been meaning to the title.” This shows that Andy was proud of who he was. He was not scared of the Guardians. However, towards the end of the story Andy realizes he was stabbed because of his Royals jacket, not because he was Andy. He develops hatred for the jacket, knowing know that winning a championship was nothing to die for, nothing to give up seeing his lover. In the story it states, “The jacket had only one meaning,
After reading the story, I found I had mixed emotions about it. To explain, when we were getting into detail and finally finding out what really happened the day of June 28th, I found myself completely interested and glued to the book. I also enjoyed the way the incident was explained because I felt like I was there watching it all happen from the great detail. I enjoyed Phillips style of writing because through his writing, he really came off as an intelligent person who is very familiar with the legal system. The book is an easy read, and I liked the non-pretentious style of writing. I did not find myself struggling with reading the book at all, which made the overall experience that much more enjoyable.
The idea of belonging is primal and fundamental. It is human nature to want to belong. In Medicine River, written by Thomas King, the desire to belong is crucial to the character development of the protagonist, Will. Belonging is represented in various ways throughout the text but the changes to Will are mainly conveyed through two channels: from community and from family.
People have goals everyday, believe it or not some people think that dreams aren't worth it. I believe that it is worth it to dream because it gives a person a goal, it makes them feel good, and it makes them stronger. I know this from The Pearl, A Cubs video, the Susan Boyle video, and We Beat the streets.
Before and during the times of the Salem Witch Trials, Puritans who were a god-fearing religious sect, always believed in two worlds. They believed that God controlled both worlds, and that if they displeased him, he would punish the entire community. The Puritans did everything in their control, so that they wouldn’t displease him. They paid attention to things that occurred around them, because they believed that he was sending them signs. At the time, they believed that every terrible thing occurring to them was God showing his displeasure with them. Since the Salem community was ruled by the Puritan Church, they instilled their same beliefs and ideals to everyone else in the community. The people of Salem were all taught and shown to fear
Writing a story is pretty difficult. Writing a short story is even harder, there is so much that has to be accomplished; in both commercial and literary fiction! The plot, the structure, whether it has a happy, unhappy, or indeterminate ending. There must be artistic unity, chance, coincidence, rising action, climax, falling action. Most importantly there must be characterization. Characters make the story! “anyone can summarize what a person in a story has done, but a writer needs considerable skill and insight into human beings to describe convincingly who a person is” [page 168]
How has your character changed in the book? What main events those lead to this change? How does the author show this change in writing?
Overall, this was a great book because I finished it in two days. It was filled with suspense, action, valuable themes, and it made me feel a wide variety of emotions. The book explored the value of family, the corruption of government, and the fundamental question of “Should one follow the order if it’s immoral to one?”
A tragic character is someone who experiences misfortune in courtesy of poor judgment, fate or a conflicted personality. In the tragedy, Antigone, there is a heavy debate over whether Antigone or Creon is the tragic character. Creon can be classified as the tragic character of the play because he has been affected the most due to his decision of sentencing Antigone to death. For instance, a fight emerges between the king and his son, Haimon, as a result of his harsh punishment. Also, he lets his pride get in the way which triggers the suicide of Haimon and his wife, Eurydice. By the end of the tragedy, Creon is forced to live through the painful death of his family, thus being the tragic character because he suffered the most.
Who was once a hero, was now the villain in many regards; he was the protagonist at first, and after, became the antagonist after his fortune took over his morality. Henry Ford had well-meaning intentions at first. Truly wanting to connect the world, he wanted to create a car that everyone can afford and be able to enjoy. Although he achieved his goal of creating this car, the model T, several unintentional controversial ideologies were established along with it.
“Don’t apologize,” I tell him. “You have nothing to be sorry for.” I’m the one who should be sorry. Next fall, Reeve should be a football god at a division one school, doing keg stands and hooking up with random girls. That’s his destiny. The thought of Reeve stuck here on this island… it’s too sad to even think about.” (Han 280)
The narrator O’Brien, witnesses a lot of deaths in Vietnam and instead of becoming depressed and irrational like most people do he and his soldier buddies came up with a different way to cope with death. They act as if the dead are still alive and keep on treating them as if they are alive. During this time O’Brien has a flashback to his first love Linda. O’Brian and Linda lived in a small town in Minnesota. At age nine O’Brien asks Linda out on a date. O’Brien’s parents escort the two love birds to the movies where they see The Man Who Never Was. On the way to the movie O’Brien wants to confess how much she means to him; however, he chickens out and loses his chance. This movie was a horrible war movie that scared O’Brien.
Many significant people have been revered for their services towards their community. Judge Pyncheon examples this belief, even though some select few are able to truly see the character within. Nathaniel Hawthorne reveals the character of Judge Pyncheon in his novel The House of The Seven Gables through his grammatical choices, syntax and diction, as well as the attentiveness to details to showcase the misleading facade that the Judge parades.
When Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus, the issues of race were at their peak. It was the time where blacks were seen as barbarous and villainous, and that is exactly what Shakespeare gave his audience when he presented the character Aaron the Moor. Unfortunately white Europeans did not sympathize or connect with this character, mostly because Aaron seemed to symbolize the black population as a whole. Shakespeare makes it very clear that Aaron has a hard time of gaining the likeness and approval of not only the audience, but also the characters in Titus Andronicus. In his article, Uddalak Dutta states that “Shakespeare seems to attest that “blackness” is, indeed, not merely skin-deep but an essential character trait” (927). Aaron’s characterization is one that cannot be matched by any other character in Shakespeare’s plays. Aaron embodies the characteristics of
The U.S court system has numerous cases in it, they range from multi million dollar cases (including the bank crisis, or the car business for example) to less severe cases called torts. A tort is a legal term defined as “ A wrongful act that does not include breach of contract. This offense damages the injured parties property or reputation, leaving that party able to gain compensation.” (Dictionary.com) The book The King of Torts is about a man named Clay Carter. He has a stable job, it doesn’t pay as much as he wishes. He in the scheme of one week goes from making $100,000 a year to making $5,000,000 in one case. This is all because he filed something called a mass tort (also known as a class tort).