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In every society and community, people with different ethics interact with each other and conduct themselves distinctly. Evil and wicked people tends to hurt and harm others with no sympathy, and they never care the consequences of their behaviors. However, those people who have performed evil action on others will never get away with their misconducts. In the book, "The Kitchen House" written by Kathleen Grissom, it reveal the certain truths about the behaviors of the wicked people and their outcomes. In the book, "The Kitchen House" written by Kathleen Grissom, Mr. Waters, Marshall, and Rankin will be held responsible for what they have done, and will be paid back for their vicious actions. Initially, evil people will pay off their …show more content…
Although Marshall is not aware that he is raping his older sister, it is still very vicious to force a slave to have sex with him. His evilness turns his misunderstanding opinion about Belle into a violent and unethical rape with someone who is biologically related to him. In chapter 53 of the book, "The Kitchen House" written by Kathleen Grissom, Belle says that the some slaves escape and other slaves decide to burn down Marshall's big house(p351). From this intended incident, Marshall lost everything he has in tall oaks since all his possession are gone due to the escape and the fire. In the last chapter of the book, "The Kitchen House" written by Kathleen Grissom, Lavinia writes that Marshall is killed by Jamie, the son made from his rape of Belle, with a shotgun and dies.(p358) It proves that vicious people with die because of their cruel conducts and that raping their own family members will their his life. Leviticus 20:16-18 says " If there is a man who takes his sister, .......it is a disgrace; and they shall be cut off......"(NASB p134). The quote which are the holy words of God testifies that a wicked person who has sex with his sister will be put to death and it shows how God is against evilness and …show more content…
Lastly, if a despicable person has been doing all kinds of evil actions on the people he controls or around him for a long period of time, the least punishment he will get is being exiled from his community and losing all of his status. In the last chapter of the book, "The Kitchen House" written by Kathleen Grissom, Lavinia asks the whereabouts of Rankin but nobody knows where he is, and Papa and Ben are armed in case Rankin comes back(p360). From Lavinia's words, we can predict that Rankin must have gotten the news of armed people in Tall Oaks from someone and he knows he will be killed if he ever get back to the Tall Oaks. The case is equivalent to a banishment since he dare not to get back to Tall Oaks again and loses all his power and status that he has established over the years. This demonstrates that an evil person will be banished from a community for what he has done. Job 15:19-21 says" The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, and numbered are the years stored up for the ruthless."(NASB p569). The quote from God exemplifies that Rankin's exile is God punishment on the wicked people who has been ruthless for years and now they will be in pain and misery since they have lost
The tragicomic Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel, is generally considered one of the most important pieces of the modern LGBTQ canon of literature. The graphic novel tells the story of Alison Bechdel’s attempt to find the truth about her father’s sexuality and what lead him to possibly commit suicide. Along the way, Bechdel finds her own sexuality. Bechdel’s choice to write about her and her father’s simultaneous journey to finding their sexuality was revolutionary at the time. Very few authors were writing openly about their own sexuality, and something even more revolutionary that Bechdel addressed was mental illness. It’s unexpected so late in this story, on page 137, that Bechdel would include a lengthy section discussing her childhood Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Why
Throughout chapter one of Fun Home, Alison Bechdel portrays artifice and art as two very similar but distinct things; both overlapping and making it hard to differentiate between what is what. Art, in her view, is the truth, and a skill that has to be mastered. On the other hand, artifice contains partial, or full, amounts of falsehood; it covers up the truth in some way but contains art in itself. Artifice can be, like art, something mastered, but can also be a coping mechanism to cover up something good or bad. Bechdel turns both art and artifice into a very interlinked, combined, version of the two forms. When truth and falsehood are combined, after awhile, it becomes a challenge to distinguish between the two; evidently true to herself.
In Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, Bechdel uses the theme of appearance versus reality to highlight her relationship with her father. Bechdel utilizes her illustrations and short sentences to reveal these things about herself and her father. Bechdel opens her memoir with a chapter entitled “Old Father, Old Artificer”. Bechdel refers to her father, Bruce Bechdel, as an artificer because she sees him as a skilled craftsman. Bechdel describes, “His greatest achievement, arguably, was his monomaniacal restoration of our old house.” (Bechdel 4). Her father restored their old house to make it look like a huge mansion. Bechdel knows that this is just the appearance of their household because it is not an accurate representation of their family life inside the house. Bruce created an appearance that was the opposite of reality to cover up the actual wealth of their family. He hides the fact that his family may not be as wealthy and perfect as they appear to be. In this case, Bruce reveals he believes that appearance is more important than the reality of a situation. Appearance is also important on the inside of the home as well. Bechdel mentions, “Sometimes, when things were going well, I
In the Hebrew Bible, adultery is considered a capital crime, punishable by the population stoning the adulterous wife and her lover to death. Deut. 22:20 commands this communal punishment in order to “sweep away evil from Israel.” The question remains as to why this crime was considered to be such a transgression. Several explanations exist to account for the seriousness of the crime.
Throughout Marilynne Robinson’s works, readers are often reminded of themes that defy the status quo of popular ideas at the time. She explores transience and loneliness, amongst other ideas as a way of expressing that being individual, and going against what is deemed normal in society is acceptable. Robinson utilizes traditional literary devices in order to highlight these concepts.
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"That is why God gave them up to disgraceful sexual appetites, for both their females changed the natural use of themselves into one contrary nature and likewise even the males left the natural use of the female and became violently inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males, working what is obscene and receiving in themselves the full recompense, which was due for their error." (Romans 1:26-27)
Already in the first chapter, the reader begins to gain a sense of the horrors that have taken place. Like the ghost, the address of the house is a stubborn reminder of its history. The characters refer to the house by its number, 124. These digits highlight the absence of Sethe’s murdered third child. As an institution, slavery shattered its victims’ traditional family structures, or else precluded such structures from ever forming. Slaves were thus deprived of the foundations of any identity apart from their role as servants. Baby Suggs is a woman who never had the chance to be a real mother, daughter, or sister. Later, we learn that neither Sethe nor Paul D knew their parents, and the relatively long, six-year marriage of Halle and Sethe is an anomaly in an institution that would regularly redistribute men and women to different farms as their owners deemed necessary.
Humans commit many acts of evil towards each other. Some well-known examples are Hitler killing the Jews during the Holocaust, spouse abusers, and infamous serial killers, like John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy. Another example is Satan worshippers in Russia stabbing four teenagers 666 times and then proceeded to eat them (Haywood 1). Another example is a woman and her boyfriend beating her 1-year-old son with belts...
What drives people to act in an improper way, is not evil, but rather a lack of empathy hardwired into their brain. When a
Marie, who is a product of an abusive family, is influenced by her past, as she perceives the relationship between Callie and her son, Bo. Saunders writes, describing Marie’s childhood experiences, “At least she’d [Marie] never locked on of them [her children] in a closet while entertaining a literal gravedigger in the parlor” (174). Marie’s mother did not embody the traditional traits of a maternal fig...
The victim is nineteen year old Khadijah Stewart. Stewart had grown up in the south side of Richmond, Virginia (a high crime area) where she met a boy named Tommie. Both were in middle school but Tommie soon got arrested for robberies and gun charges, he was sentenced to life as a juvenile. As time goes on Stewart forms a history of dating bad boys. The main on and off again boyfriend throughout her high school years was a young man named Lionel. In High school Stewart is skipping school to hang out Lionel and his gang members. Afraid how the streets could impact Stewart, the mother moves the family to Chesterfield County, a successful middle class suburbs, to create new life. As her life is changing for the better her heart longs to maintain
To any religious person, hearing a command from the voice of their god is reason enough to carry out the proposed action, but in the case of Wieland, a third party must take a deeper look at such a command from a God whose known character does not line up with the order He supposedly gives. This makes Wieland’s motivation questionable, especially to those who believe that a man’s motive determines a man’s guilt. In his testimony to the court, Wieland, a pious man, reveals his motive in the murders as he recounts God as saying, “‘Thy prayers are heard. In proof of thy faith, render me thy wife. This is the victim I chuse. Call her hither and here let her fall’” (190). Being a devout Christian, it is very likely that Wieland would be familiar with the Ten Commandments listed in Deuteronomy 5, and specifically, verse 17 which states, “You shall not murder”. Though in Isaiah 55:8 the Lord tells Christians to ...
First, “Mrs. Charles Bliss” was ready for a divorce. She was ready to leave her husband and he was ready to leave her. Reverend Wiley advised her not to for the sake of the children. And Judge Somers told her husband not to go through with it. So they stuck it out even though they hated each other. Two of the children sided with the husband and blamed her for it. The other two sided with her and blamed him for it. This family had to live life hating each other and pointing fingers. To the average person walking down the street, passing by their house might seem normal or even peaceful. But inside the locked doors life wasn't so great. People would have no idea what is going on in there.