Summaries
Chapter 1
Libby Day professes her nastiness. The lone survivor in her family’s brutal massacre, she has been depressed since. Lying in bed, she contemplates suicide. The money she had received in donations as a child now spent, she finds herself penniless and clueless.
As she mulls over getting hold of money she receives a letter from Lyle Wirth, a man who would pay her 500$ to make an appearance at a ‘special club’. After talking to him over the phone she finds out about the ‘Kill Club’ made up of people obsessed with criminal cases and determined to solve them. She agrees, after upping the price to 700$.
Chapter 2
Libby Day’s mother, Patty is a deeply troubled woman. Troubled by the vagaries of life - separation, debts,
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Patty returns home after meeting with the enigmatic man Len had directed her to, thinking that she would not miss her surroundings at all. She find the girls asleep and calls Diane to come over early and expresses her gratitude for her help. Diane offers to come over but Patty declines. Crawling into bed, Patty finds Libby sleepwalking into bed with her. She tells her she loves her and is glad that she could say that aloud to at least one of her children.
Chapter 31
Libby finds out from Lyle about Trey Teepano’s whereabouts and is paid five hundred dollars by Magda and her friends to talk to him. She goes to his feed store with Lyle and finds out that he knew Runner, who owed him money; and that he was into Satanism. However, he said that he did not know Ben well and that he assumed Diondra to be on the run, under a different name - Polly Pam. They walk out of the store with Lyle extremely electrified about something.
Chapter 32
The trio - Ben, Trey and Diondra, return to Diondra’s house where they burn their blood stained clothes. Trey makes fun of Ben’s incompetence and they accidentally burn Ben’s jeans - forcing him to wear Diondra’s sweatpants. However, Diondra asks Ben to take money from his mother and leave the town altogether. Ben
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The duo are convinced that Diondra is in hiding using her pseudonym and find her in Kearney, Missouri after searching on the internet. Polly hangs up when she is asked about her identity by Libby and Libby decides to pay her a visit in person. While there, Diondra acknowledges her identity and warmly welcomes Libby. Libby tells Diondra, when prompted, that Trey and not Ben had helped in finding her and asks her if Ben had murdered her family. Diondra tells Libby about her pregnancy and displays ignorance on the subject, trying to persuade Libby to move on. When Libby asks about the baby, a girl walks in.
Chapter 34
Ben and Diondra leave without Trey for Ben’s house, hoping to get hold of some money there. Once there, Ben leads Diondra to his room where he has a present for her. He packs some clothes, a hundred dollars and a notebook full of prospective names for his baby girl. However, Ben is unable to find the present, a bundle of baby girl clothes (Patty had burned them all) and thinks that one of his sisters must have taken them. As Diondra complains about Ben’s ineptitude, Michelle enters and threatens to inform Patty. Diondra catches hold of her and strangles her, while Ben watches.
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Sheila and Eric are convinced that this doesn’t change a thing. Just when Mr. Birling teases the family, he receives a telephone to find that there’s is a girl that has died in the infirmary and a police inspector is on his way to question
They tell her that they have found him but only a part of him. His jaw bone. This make Olivia trave back to her home town Medford. Terry’s family are having his funural so on her way there she decied to stop by her grandmothers old house. In the car she also decied that it would be a good idea to not tell any about who she really was.Olivia happens to meet a woman named Nora that lives next door and she is told that Nora was her grandmothers best friend. At this point Nora tells Olivia lots of information about her family and ends up asking her to take her to Terry’s feneral. This is a preferct cover for her. With being aroud family member that she doesn’t know or have been around makes it even harder to keep her past a sercret. After seeing and hearing lots of things from many different people Olivia wants to solve her perents murders. Along the way after she moves into her grandmother old house she picks up an frien named Duncan and the grow closer and
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The second chapter of ' 'In Cold Blood ' ' focuses on the aftermath of the murders. While the townspeople and investigators cope with the murder of the Clutter family, the killers make their way to Mexico.
Kurt Vonnegut is the author of Slaughterhouse Five and he was a soldier during World War II. Slaughterhouse Five is a fictional story of what a man named Billy Pilgrim went through as a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II. Vonnegut experienced the bombing of Dresden in Germany when was a prisoner of war. Vonnegut's prison in Dresden, Germany was a slaughterhouse that the Germans forced the prisoners of war to live in. He relates some of his experiences during World War II to help him create the fictional story about Billy Pilgrim. Billy Pilgrim is a fictional character that Vonnegut created in order to somehow tell his store of Dresden. Most of Billy Pilgrim's experiences are similar to what Vonnegut actually experienced as a prisoner of war during World War II. PTSD is a disorder that disrupts someone's life keeping them from having an normal life because of a traumatic event that they experienced. PTSD is very common among soldiers returning from war because they went through many traumatic events during their deployment. It is very obvious to see that Vonnegut and Billy Pilgrim are suffering from PTSD after their deployment in Germany during World War II.
When she decided to try and help a young juvenile, Wesley Benfield, become a better person by taking him to church and offering him to stay the night with her, Robert thought that Mattie was sick. Pearl Turnage, Mattie's older sister, has given in to the stereotypes that are now plaguing Mattie, and insists that she do the same. In fact, she invites Mattie to accompany her to the funeral home, where they will each pick out a casket that they are to be buried in. Pearl pushes the subject, as if to force Mattie into realizing that she doesn't have much time left to live. Pearl also begins talking to Mattie about the past and the fun that they once had, as if to tell Mattie that those days are over and that it is time for her to begin a new chapter in her life.
Cassie and her brother, Little Man, got a whipping because they were standing up for what they knew was right. “Sitting so close to the desk, I could see that the covers of the books, a motley read, were badly worn and that the gray edges of the pages had been marred by pencils, crayons, and ink.” (Taylor, 21) Cassie knew the books were very old books from the white schools. Cassie and her brother saw what the whites called them and they got mad about it, so the teacher, Miss. Crocker, gave them both a whippings. “The switch landed hard on Little Man’s upturned bottom. Cassie knew she would get in trouble for helping him, but she helped him anyway. “Everything. I poured out everything. About T.J.’s breaking into the mercantile with the Simses, about his coming in the night fleeing the Simses, about the coming of the night men and what they had done to the Averys. About Mr. Jamison and the threat of the men to come to the house to get him and Mr. Morrison.” (Taylor, 258) Cassie knew she would get in trouble for sneaking out to go help T.J. but she had to tell her dad what happened so T.J. wouldn’t die. “What happened to T.J. in the night I did not understand, but I knew that it would not pass. And I cried for those things which had happened in the night and would not pass. I cried for those things which had happened in the night and would not pass. I cried for T.J. For T.J. and the land.” (Taylor, 276) Cassie knew T.J. would die, but she knew she helped as much as she could. She knew she was
When Meghan hears me enter she runs crying "Tim's teasing me and I'm hungry." I ask the kids, "Why didn't you feed her?" Tim responds, "she didn't say she was hungry." Pat runs up from the basement and reminds me I have to take him to guitar practice now or he'll be late.
The book Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot was written by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard and is based upon the life and death of the 35th President of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Although it is a biography of his life, it’s main subject is to describe his presidency leading up until his assassination. The book describes the hardships of his presidency both political and personal. It describes the enemies he forms while in office such as the leader of the USSR, Nikita Khrushchev, and Cuba, Fidel Castro, it also describes his difficult relationships with CIA Director Allen Dulles as well as with his own Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. The book describes the major foreign and domestic issues he faces throughout
"There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful thananything that bleeds. Don 't wait until you break. - Laurell Hamilton" This is oftentimes the sentiment felt by soldiers who have served in active duty and have been witnesses to tragedies that leave them emotionally scarred. The Clint Eastwood directed film, American Sniper is amovie that features the real life tragedy of American soldier, Chris Kyle, who served in theUnited States military as a Navy Seal, which is an elite group (Kenny, 2014 and Treitschke,2015). His story is unique in that he himself suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD), but as he worked to recover, he valiantly served again by helping fellow soldiers withPTSD ("Chris Kyle," 2013), and was senselessly gunned
Baruch Spinoza once said “Experience teaches us no less clearly than reason, that men believe themselves free, simply because they are conscious of their actions and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.” He compared free-will with destiny and ended up that what we live and what we think are all results of our destiny; and the concept of the free-will as humanity know is just the awareness of the situation. Similarly, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five explores this struggle between free-will and destiny, and illustrates the idea of time in order to demonstrate that there is no free-will in war; it is just destiny. Vonnegut conveys this through irony, symbolism and satire.
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As she got older, Jeannette and her siblings made their own life, even as their parents became homeless. Jeannette and her older sister Lori decide to run away from their family in Virginia and go start a new life in New York City. However, after a few months, the rest of the family moves to New York and settles down. While in the City, Jeannette gets a job as a reporter, which was her life goal, and one day on her way to an event she sees her mother rummaging around in a dumpster. While the rest of the family gets along, Maureen, the youngest of the family goes insane and stabs their
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to the Pet cemetary. Louis answers her honestly and later Rachel and him have an