The Parker Gunshot, published 1986, written by Sue Grafton. The story begins in California during January, with private detective Millhone in her office, laying back wasting time. All of the sudden she sees what appears to be a client. As opposed to the amateur detective stories where they would usually hear of the cases through the newspapers, private detectives usually had cases come to them. The name of the person who brought the case to Millhone is Lisa Osterling, wife of the victim, named Rudd Osterling. The story unfolds with the murder of Rudd Osterling by a shotgun. Detective Millhone thinks she can solve the case by finding the murder weapon. At first she thought it was the Parker Shotgun. She later discovered that it was a collectable …show more content…
The Private investigator name is Kinsey Millhone. She is a female, thirty-two years old, single and physically fit (295). She pays attention to every detail she is compassionate, profiles people, passionate and straight forward. Females weren’t really portrait as strong independent woman, they would often be the killers or victims, and often some people thought that using a female lead was consider fake, that it wasn't the real world. I thought it was cool to see a badass female lead. The ending for me was gold, because she decided to withhold information from the police. She knew that there would be no real justice since the murderer was an old man that was sick and would probably die in a few months or so. She decided to take the parker shot gun and give it to the victim wife. Even though this might be consider selfish and not honorable I thought it was a satisfying ending, because she help the pregnant widow and the cheating wife and her lover wouldn't make profit when the old man dies. This also is another similarity to the amateur detective stories the detective wasn’t completely honest with the police. Only this time she withheld information to help somebody else instead of doing it for personal
While she might think that her plans are working, they only lead her down a path of destruction. She lands in a boarding house, when child services find her, she goes to jail, becomes pregnant by a man who she believed was rich. Also she becomes sentenced to 15 years in prison, over a street fight with a former friend she double crossed. In the end, she is still serving time and was freed by the warden to go to her mother’s funeral. To only discover that her two sisters were adopted by the man she once loved, her sister is with the man who impregnated her, and the younger sister has become just like her. She wants to warn her sister, but she realizes if she is just like her there is no use in giving her advice. She just decides that her sister must figure it out by
...story, this made me think that finally the serial killer is caught but that turned out to be nothing, still having the suspense of when the real serial killer will come in hand. But against my every envisagement, the serial killer came by himself to Duncan to get his lost diary back in the lost and found department. This made the chills run through me as he came at the time I didn't expected. This brought the sudden climax in the story making me even more anxious that even though Duncan has found the serial killer, how will he ever stop this killing machine. And finally at the end when the serial killer was chasing Duncan down on the subway tracks, they both get hit by the train creating more anxiety in my mind that how will Duncan ever survive this kind of blow. But in the ending he survives and the serial killer dies, thus creating a happy mental picture in the end.
On May 21, 1980, Katherine Reitz Brow was stabbed over 30 times in her Ayer, Massachusetts home. There were bloodstains throughout the house and her purse, some jewelry and an envelope where she had been known to keep cash was missing. Investigators found hair, blood ladened fingerprints on the toaster and the kitchen faucet which was left running. A bloody paring knife which was perceived to be the murder weapon was found in the waste basket. Mr. Water’s became a suspect because he lived next to the victim with his girlfriend, Brenda Marsh. He also worked at a local diner that Ms. Brow frequented and employee’s revealed that she had been known to keep large amounts of cash in her home.
Everything is criticized at every level in this story, the people by the main character, the main character by the author and even the story by the author as well. The cruel egoistic personality of Anders is definitely identifiable through these different levels of criticism. I will prove that the inner motivation of this behaviour derives from Anders' egoistic personality which sometimes makes him cruel against others, sometimes against himself. Furthermore, I will prove that whenever Anders criticizes somebody or something he actually tries to punish because of the imperfectness of the object. In order to make the referring to the different part of the story easier I divide it into three parts. The first part ends when the robbers appear at the door of the bank, the second ends when one of the robbers shoots at Anders and the left is the third part.
The story by Somerville Ross, “Philippa’s Fox Hunt” was set in Ireland. A recently married couple Mr. and Mrs. Yeates were featured adapting to a new environment. The new place was characterized by new social activities that were not common in their previous residence. They had to learn new skills such as riding horses and hunting. Mr. Yeates who narrated the story described his life after marriage and how events had shaped his marriage. At the very beginning I was able to pick an element of symbolism; a newly married couple will naturally start a new life and similarly in the story the couple ventured into a new society where almost everything was new just in the same way when two people get married to each other.
No matter how much he put her through, she kept fighting for her life. I was confused by this because, in my eyes her life was completely over. I did not see how she could ever live a functioning life after all of the things that she went through. I would have thought that this reality would have been a reason for her to give up and choose fiction. Fiction would have been the easy way out of the pain, loses, and suffering that she faces and would continue to face. Then I thought to myself that is what makes humans amazing. Being able to endure the challenges of life and keep going. Originally, I thought she was a fool to keep going then I realized that she was strong. If I was her I would have chosen my reality
Mary Jane was a woman from California she was married to a man by the name of Dan and they had two children Brad and Stacey. They had to move to Seattle because her husband Dan had gotten a job offer at Microrule. When they moved it wasn't long before when Mary Jane found a job as a supervisor at First Guarantee Financial, this was one of Seattle's largest financial institutions. Everything had been going good for both of them. Then after twelve months of being in Seattle Mary Jane's husband was rushed to the hospital with a burst aneurysm unfortunately he never regained consciousness and then died. It was real tough on Mary Jane but she went on, she had to support her family as a single parent. So three years had gone by when Mary Jane accepted a promotion to move up to the third floor at First Guarantee Financial. The third floor was a place that everyone talked about they basically bad mouthed about them, they did not have a good reputation. They were known as the energy dump. The only reason why Mary Jane was taking this job was because when her husband passed away not all the medical expenses were covered so she had to pay for them and provide for the family. At the same time she wondered what had she gotten into. If she only knew what she had in for her?
"Windup Girl" has been review in lots of places. So this review is going to slant more towards critique... and that means I'm going to talk about the ending. Don't read any further if you hate having endings 'spoiled!' Don't say I didn't warn you... and don't make me haul out the tag!
Early morning, August 5, 1918, Mrs. Schneider was woken up by a dark figure.(Taylor) She let out no scream for help but she was scared for her life, she thought she was saved but,the police found her the next day, her scalp had been cut, blood all over her face, her faced seemed to be bashed repeatedly(complex). 3 murders over the course of 3 months, the police thought they were all connected in some way they gave the murder a nickname..the Axeman since all of the murders happened with some type of axe, now here comes the tricky part, trying to find the
The video starts off with a brief description of Detective Shi’s first case. Detective Shi is a private investigator who looks for Chinese women who have been kidnapped by men needing wives. 200 young women in the past ten years own their current freedom to Shi rescuing them (Detective 2008). His first case is a woman that had been missing for three years. She went to work in a neighboring province, and was captured. Six months before the video, she
The Army CID sent a new, inexperienced investigator named William Ivory to investigate the scene. Ivory decided after looking around the house that MacDonald made up the story of the killers. He also persuaded everyone that he was the culprit. This meant that everyone in Ivory’s chain...
deemed as a very happy ending to the play with out all the loose ends
The grandma was a very selfish person throughout the whole story. Some examples of this is when the grandma wanted to visit the plantation and the rest of the family did not, but she made up a lie about the house “not telling the truth but wishing that she were” (O’Connor, Pg. 4) which made the children want to go even though she knew that once they arrived and there was not a hidden passage that they would be very mad but she only cared about what she wanted. On the way to the plantation the grandma comes to realize that she has made a mistake and that the house was not down the road they were traveling, but instead of telling the family, she decided to keep her mouth shut for the first time in the story and not say a word to anybody “the thought was so embarrassing that she turned red in the face and her eyes dilated and her feet jumped up” (O’Connor, Pg. 5). When The Misfit comes over to the car to talk to them the grandma recognized him from the newspaper article that she read that morning. She thought it would be a good idea to call him out on it without thinking of the consequences that could come from it. Due to that decision her whole family, including herself ended up being killed. If she would have just kept her mouth shut would they have survived? When The Misfit began killing her family the grandmother was saying whatever she could to try to save her own life, but not the rest of her family’s life. “You wouldn’t shot a lady, would you?” (O’Connor, Pg. 6). She only cared about herself surviving. “I will give you all the money I got” (O’Connor, Pg. 8)The Grandma ended up sealing the fate of herself and her family because she only thought about herself and did not know when to keep quiet and when she should speak
There are multiple reasons to justify this action, actually. In the video, not as many clues are given to the audience to raise suspicion towards the landlady and her “career choice”, as the story is written in third person, but limited to Billy’s thoughts, and the video isn’t. The video was third person omniscient, although you still could not know personal thoughts or feelings occurring, as its hard to transfer that into a video. In the story, Billy’s feelings sometimes gave us clues as to what was going on, an element the video didn’t carry over. Adding an ending also adds suspense and creepiness into the mood of the story - you get to see the dead bodies of Mr. Mulholland and Mr. Temple. You also get to see the fate of Billy, so it confirms any loose ends you may be curious about, as not as much information is given. Both forms bring across the main idea, but I have a personal preference between the
The irony at the end of this story is very interesting. O’ Connor forces the reader to wonder which characters are “Good Men”, perhaps by the end of the story she is trying to convey two points: first, that a discerning “Good Man” can be very difficult, second that a manipulative, self centered, and hollow character: The Grandmother is a devastating way to be, both for a person individually and for everyone else around them. The reader is at least left wondering if some or all of the clues to irony I provided apply in some way to the outcome of this story.