Wednesday, April 6, 2011
green mile part 5 Night Journey
Rose Madder
Carrie 4
New Characters:
Sheriff Otis Doyle
Deputy Plessy
Tom Quillan
Summary:
This section of the book covers the prom and the events immediately following the crowing of the king and queen. Carrie and Tommy are crowned king and queen, the bands play the school song, queuing Chris and Billy. Chris pulls the jute twine dropping the buckets of pig blood. Both buckets hit their mark. Carrie and Tommy are both covered with blood, and the bucket which lands on Tommy’s head kills him. The prom attendees burst into laughter. Carrie runs out of the gym, is tripped on the way and is gone for a moment or two. She then returns and begins to use here telekinetic abilities to enact revenge upon her classmates. She forces the doors closed and turns on the gym’s sprinkler system. The water from the sprinklers reaches the electrical systems of the bands, causing a fire which engulfs the gym and eventually ignites the oil-fuel tanks, which explode. As the fire rages, Carrie is seen by several witnesses sabotaging the town’s fire hydrants and Teddy’s Amoco - the town’s gas station. King chooses to cover the disaster through the personal accounts of several witnesses including: Tom Quillan, Sue Snell, Sherriff Otis Doyle and Carrie herself.
New Social Issues:
Revenge.
Essay 4: Expanding on Essay 3
dolores claiborne 4
Cell #4
Green Mile part 4
Misery #4
Monday, April 4, 2011
Essay 4, polygamy, is Big Love BS?
I am thinking that for essay 4 I want to explore the culture of polygamy, starting with the religious history of the practice and the legal history leading up to it being criminalized. The most well known aspect of polygamy is the history in the Mormon church and the battle to maintain legality in Utah prior to gaining statehood, the truth is though that there are other religions and cultures that practice polygamy and it was the cultural norm for thousands of years. I haven’t started much research so I don’t know how much has been written about the topic, however with all of the madness a few years ago with YFZ compound I feel like this is a relevant topic for many people even if it isn’t something that most of us think about often. Besides, I really like to write about potentially explosive ideas and take the less popular side of the argument.