The Ransom I Robert Lucas got out from his car. He was a short, plump man with a very kind heart. He had donated a large portion of his fortune to cities ruined by crime such as Compton and Baltimore. Robert looked at his surroundings and sighed. Bronx was a city ravaged by poverty and violence. He started walking through the street. Turning around, he saw a man with a gun charging toward him. Quickly, Lucas ran back to his car, but not fast enough. The man fired the gun. Lucas lay crumpled on the street. The shooter jogged over to where Lucas lay and dragged him back to his van. Jumping in the van, the man took off his mask and smiled. II William Riddick was driving to his favourite restaurant in Queens, La Salsa. They had the …show more content…
Saunders stated. “Unless you find them in four days, we have no choice but to close the case.” VII Alexis returned to the tower and scouted for any more clues. After about an hour of searching, Alexis came upon a woolen glove made by the brand MolliverMerchandise which is only located in Eddyville. After some research, Alexis found out that MolliverMerchandise only sells items directly out of their factory, so, whoever bought the glove was in Eddyville. Alexis got in his car and drove there. The factory was only twenty minutes away from the tower. Getting out, he saw the factory. It was a large rectangular structure that had streaks of white paint everywhere. There was a piece of metal on the outside of the building that functioned as a door. There was no handle on the outside, so it could be opened only from the inside. Alexis knocked on the door and someone opened it. The factory was filled with smoke and you could hear the continuous creaking of mechanical machines making the fabric. “Have you seen anyone buy a black woolen glove?” asked Alexis flashing his badge to a short man with grease stains all over his clothes and …show more content…
After driving down the highway for half an hour, Alexis spotted a truck that resembled the description the man from the factory gave him. Alexis pulled over to where the truck was parked. When looking around the truck for clues, Alexis spotted a hidden trail behind nearby bushes. Alexis grabbed his gun and flashlight and carefully scouted through the bushes. There were two tracks of fresh foot prints on the trail. After trekking through the bushes for ten minutes, he came to a wide clearing that had a large wood building in the middle. VIII It was an old abandoned hotel. The rickety building was barely kept up by the rotting wood pillars. A sign nailed on front read “Mortimer’s Inn.” As he walked in, Alexis noticed the cobwebs hanging on the bookshelves. Nervously, he crept forward. A broken wooden door was kicked in with a faint red stain on it. Alexis kept on going. Soon, he came to a very narrow corridor that opened into a room. It was very grand, with many dining tables and a massive stage with something on it. With a gun in hand, he sprinted forward to the stage where he saw the bodies. There were three of them. Each one with woolen sacks over their faces, and their feet and hands entangled in chains. Rushing forward, Alexis untied them one by one. Three worn down and beaten up men came
It was a village on a hill, all joyous and fun where there was a meadow full of blossomed flowers. The folks there walked with humble smiles and greeted everyone they passed. The smell of baked bread and ginger took over the market. At the playing grounds the children ran around, flipped and did tricks. Mama would sing and Alice would hum. Papa went to work but was always home just in time to grab John for dinner. But Alice’s friend by the port soon fell ill, almost like weeds of a garden that takes over, all around her went unwell. Grave yards soon became over populated and overwhelmed with corpse.
The doorbell rings, on the other side Travis Alexander’s co-workers and friends in a panic. They are looking for him, not answering the phone and has missed a work conference. Nervousness began to set as a search for the key to his roommate’s door. Ordinarily, travel for work sometimes last for days, but he hasn’t answered his phone, responded to messages; becoming frantic the more he searches for the key to the master bedroom. Ah! The key!! As the door swings open to the master bedroom, the unbelievable is seen… large pools of blood in the hall to the bathroom, on the walls, Travis lay slumped over in the shower of his master bathroom. His throat slit, stabbed multiple times and shot in the face.
We are first introduced to Lewis, the narrator of Perelandra, in Worchester as he struggles to make his way to the cottage of the main protagonist, professor Elwin Ransom, a rather intelligent philologist. Upon arrival, Lewis is made aware of the constant presence of Maleldil, a supernatural being that supposedly created all the planets and those who inhabit them, as Ransom stresses his own importance in Maleldil's plan to save Perelandra from the bad eldila of Earth. With Lewis's assistance, Ransom is prepped for travel and returns over a year later, informing Lewis of his success. Lewis narrates Ransom’s tale, providing an outsider’s perspective into the Eden-like setting of Perelandra, where Ransom learns to walk on the water-like surface of the land and meets with the Green Lady, a green-skinned representation of Earth’s Eve. Despite the freedom and ownership she and the King bear on her world, she stresses to Ransom that Maleldil has willed it forbidden to spend the night on the single fixed land. Trouble surfaces with the arrival of a long lost acquaintance named Weston, who attempts to manipulate the Green Lady into disobeying Maleldil's commandment, determined to bring about the destruction of her kind. His torturous treatment of Perelandra’s creatures reveals him to be possessed by an evil, non-human force. Aware of the powerful influence of the Unman in Weston’s body, Ransom fights intellectual battles against the creature in order to dissuade the Green Lady and reveal Weston for what he truly is: the Devil himself. When it becomes clear to Ransom that he is losing the Green Lady’s faith, he loses hope in his ability to succeed in stopping the Unman. Maleldil reaches out to Ransom in the dark of the night, willing him to...
The house on Peregrine Lane was legend. It had been the focal point of countess legends and superstitions. Its stone turret dominated the end of the street, slicing the house in two identical pieces. The entire house was made of stone and covered in unusual purple ivy. To most of the town it a place to stay well away from, but for the Widow Fowler and her two tenants it was home. Alex and Mark ghosted around the side of the house. Mark walked pointedly towards an oblong rock that would have been non-descript to anyone else. But even as he drew near, a symbol started to burn into the lower left hand corner of the stone. . Casting a quick glance over his shoulder, Mark drew a small pendant and held it over the symbol.
In the short story, “Ransom Of Red Chief”,by William Sydney Porter, Sam, the narrator, and Bill, his partner, decided to kidnap the child of Ebenezer Dorset because Ebenezer looked rich and they thought that they could make some good money off of him, and the whole town would not be able to find them. The third paragraph states, “We knew that summit couldn’t get after us with anything stronger than constables and maybe some lacksided bloodhounds and a diatribe or two in the Weekly Farmers Budget,” (Porter, Paragraph 3). Summit is a small town in Alabama. Bill and Sam knew that Summit could not track them with anything that would be able to find them. Since they did not have anything that could find them, they decided to hit that town. They
As we read further, we find that there are multitudes of problems inherent within the South Bronx. One of the only ways of determining where these problems stem from is by looking at the possible reasons as to why they exist. Drugs, violence, AIDS infections, are not new, ...
There are multiple differences between the movie and the short story. Some of the differences were pretty major such as were the antagonists Bill and Sam kept the little trouble maker. In the short story Red Chief is kept in the cliché of a cave but the antagonist decide camping in the woods would keep the child more situated. The Ransom of Red Chief also had a difference in which the ransom note was placed I personally see this as the biggest difference because the entire concept is based around the ransom note. They still managed to change up the story line in the movie by giving a child the ransom note to give to the parents in the story the old post office Did the trick.
Looking around the abandoned cottage, I spotted a lantern next to the door hanging on a hook. I took out my lighter and lit it up, grabbing it off the hook. I held it in front of me at a distance so I could the rest of the room. It was a ugly green colored room, the wallpaper was peeling off the wall; most of it had already come off. The furniture covered in plastic.
"a man seized me from behind. He pinned me down with his stubbly beard pricking the back of my neck…He dragged me to my feet and started to march me through the village…We arrived at the edge of the forest. Beneath the trees there were about thirty other children huddled together"(Nazer 97).
The police officers escorted the seventeen men into cars and took them to the county jail, but on the way they were halted by a group of armed men, which called themselves “Knights of Liberty”. Knights of Liberty took the seventeen men out of the car and tied them to the tree. As Ellsworth reports, “They were wiped on their back and then hot tar and feathers were then applied to the bloodied backs of the seventeen men” (30).
The building was a mile long, at the other end was Navistar. Both companies are in the same building, Navistar builds some of the parts for Freightcar America. As I walk inside we have to wait on the safety guy name Michael Hallman. He explain that we’ll get a batch sometime to today in order get in the gate outside and inside. We follow Michael inside the plant, he gave us a tour of the job site of what we’ll be doing. I came across a heavy big metal train up in the air hosted by an overhead crane, while the train is moving this loud alarm going off letting everybody know the train is in the air.
Ransom by definition: a sum of money demanded or paid for the release of a captive. With this, one can somewhat tell what ransomware is - a class of malware which restricts access to the computer system that it infects, and demands a ransom paid to the creator of the malware in order for the restriction to be removed. Standing strong as one of the most destructive and profitable malware till date for the perpetrators, it is reported “Since last couple of weeks we have been seeing 500+ incidents per day of this malware. The incidents are being reported from all over India.” says Mr. Katkar, CTO of India’s leading antivirus software Quick Heal, dated early September.
This sonnet tells the struggle between youth and death, mainly how youth does not accept the idea of death. Piazza Piece, by John Crowe Ransom, is a petrarchan sonnet that tells the struggle of an older man trying to grab the attention of a younger woman. A petrarchan sonnet includes an octave, a sestet and a turn. The choice of a petrarchan sonnet enhances the story’s meaning. A man is the speaker in the first eight lines, the octave. A woman is the speaker in the last six lines, the sestet. The two speakers provide clarity while creating the obvious divide in the sonnet. This divide, found in line nine, is the turn of the sonnet. This turn develops the main message of the sonnet.
On August 24, 2016 it was a dark and gloomy night it was around two in the morning when the elderly neighbor, Mrs. Smith, heard fighting and screaming from the mansion next door. She called the police suspecting something was wrong, but when the police arrived to the mansion it was strangely quiet. He broke into the house to investigate further as he walked in the huge mansion he saw that at the end of the long, narrow hallway there was a single room with a light on. The police officer, Officer Adams, went towards the room he realized it was an old fashioned theater when Adams opened the creaky door completely he heard high-heeled footsteps and a tear of fabric. Probably some type of clothing he thought. He didn’t
He had a revolver in his hand, but he did not point it at them.