Prophetic Dreams of the Motel Murders This particular ghost story was told to me by one of the members of my gymnastics troupe. We had become friends over the course of the season, and she was telling me this story in an informal setting in my dorm room on a Friday night. She is twenty years old and grew up in a very conservative Catholic family in New Jersey. Later on, as I attempted to find more people who would have heard a similar story, I ran into another friend who had heard a variation
fling them into the muck…” Dominique struggles to destroy Roarke because they are also very alike. Howard Roarke is a genius, he works by himself, and he doesn't allow anyone else to be his puppet master. Dominique believes that the type of power she and Roarke hold will be unappreciated in society, and by withholding her power and attempting to destroy Roarke's, she can deprive the world of the creativity the world needs. Unlike Dominique, Roarke doesn't care about the world; he believes in following
The daughter of a wealthy architect, Dominique Francon is a powerful woman who is convinced the world is full of rotten corruption and that all things good have no chance of survival. She believes she understands the world of the successful.She perceives that in order to gain power, one must change and conform themselves to society and in doing so will lose their pride and dignity in oneself. She hates how society destroys talent, goodness and excellence. Society slowly corrupts the work of excellence
Meg Galloway while trying to solve the death of her father Patrick Galloway. Northern Lights is told with a man as the main character. This book is basically told from Nate Burke's point of view. Glory in Death is about two protagonists Eve and Roarke trying to deal with their feelings for each other; while trying to solve the deaths of two successful women. Nora Roberts is also known as J.D. Robbs used Glory in Death to tell a romance crime story set in the
runs out of a closet with a gun and shoots the two men and a cop. The two men die and the cop has his leg amputated. This sets off the main plot of the story. Hailey gets Brigance to defend him for virtually nothing. During a courtroom scene, Eileen Roarke (Sandra Bullock, in a surprisingly small role for having top billing) helps Brigance to get the trial moved to another town. Unfortunately, the judge (Patrick McGoohan) decides against moving the trial. Brigance needs to get a jury of young, married
In the Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Dominique Francon was a strong, powerful, highly intelligent, cold and radiantly beautiful woman that believed that good could never conquer evil and she simply hated everyone. She had never believed that she could have met her match, until she met Roark because he surpassed her in every aspect. She recognizes the greatness that is of Howard Roark but she does not believe that he will be able to survive in the society that they live in so she tries to destroy him