As a spiritual person, I derive most of my morals from the bible itself. I am “an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth,” kind of guy. Therefore, I believe that if one commits murder, one should most definitely be put to death.
Like I pretty much mentioned already, I am a strong believer in the bible. In the first book of the bible, Genesis, God told Noah that “anyone shedding mans blood by man will his own blood be shed.” In the Ten Commandments given to Moses to be given to the Israelites, God commanded that there should be no murder. Also in the Law of Moses was the one stating that if two men were to “struggle,” or fight around a pregnant woman, and either the unborn baby or the woman was killed, the man responsible for the incident should be put to death. It’s from the bible instances like these, that I derive my personal morals. Therefore, I believe that if one commits murder, one should be put to death, just like it was back in those Bible times. So am I for Capital Punishment? Yes I am. This is my moral aspect of the whole thing. As far as things go such as how the person should be put to death, it really makes no difference to me. If the murderer put one to death for no particular reason, without mercy, and killed someone not caring how painful or how unpainful it was, who is to say that we shouldn’t treat the murderer the same way. In bible times it was done nice and easy, nothing fancy. People were “stoned,” to death, or pelted with stones until they succumbed to their injuries. So a nice and simple way of execution would be acceptable by me.
According to my morals and my personal views, Capital Punishment is acceptable. If one commits a murder, one should be put to death, just like God commanded his followers to do back then in bible times. So just like the “eye for an eye,” if one kills, one should pay for his murder with his own life.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Trifles
The story, Trifles, is one resembling that of a murder mystery. What is different about this one although, is that this mystery is not solved by the Sheriff, but in fact is solved by the reader putting two and two together. This adds to the overall symbolic and visual elements of this story.
The thing that proves most interesting about the story is the title Trifles. From the start, the title doesn’t mean anything significant, until the reader reads on throughout the story. The word trifle, means anything little and small; insignificant. Throughout this story, two of the main characters’, two women on the murder scene, rummage through the now widows things who just lost her husband, and dig up little small insignificant things; trifles. What is ironically symbolic about this is the fact that these little trifles, is what goes on to solve the whole murder mystery.
The sheriff involved brings the two ladies along to help him and the county attorney get a better overview of things, seeing that one of the ladies was the murder victim’s wife’s neighbor. As they dig throughout the newly widow’s things, they bring up little insignificant things such as a quilt, a bird cage, old spoiled fruit, etc. Undoubtedly this is where the author pulls his title from, but after the two ladies retrieve all of these items, without saying the newly revealed truth to each other, the reader can figure out on his own what happened here. The two ladies reveal a bird cage, and eventually a dead bird, which seemed to have been strangled, just like how the widow’s husband was found. This is a reflection of Mr. Wright’s gruesome end. Ample detail of the kind of person Mr. Wright is supplied within the story, and one can visualize his lifestyle while reading the story, which adds to the overall visual elements that this story projects. Mr. Wright is described as a “hard man,” one who could have likely been seen as someone with a lack of feelings; uncaring. One also learns while reading that the Wrights had no children. Another reflective detail presented by one of the two ladies suggests that she had a still born child, therefore to replace the couples “lack of children,” they had a bird, something to take care of like one would a child.
From what’s presented by more visual elements supplied to the reader, one can infer, that the bird one day was chirping; singing, making a lot of noise. Mr. Wright, eventually ticked off by this infernal noise, strangled the bird. From yet another reflection about one of the ladies childhood cat that was killed by a neighborhood boy, one learns of the fondness Mrs. Wright had for the bird, and one can feel the broken heartedness she had when she found her bird, that was like a child to her, dead; strangled by her husband. From this revelation, the two ladies find out what really happened here, but surprisingly go through everything possible to conceal it from the Sheriff. More visual elements are conveyed here to the reader, as one can picture with the details given, the length at which the two ladies go through to conceal the dead bird, and along with it, the truth to what really happened on this murder scene.
Throughout this story, there are many instances of visual elements conveyed to the reader to help better picture what is going on within the story, symbolism as one can see from connecting the title with what is found within the story, and reflections, or allusions to things that actually took place based on things found on the murder scene within this story. These elements all define the character of this particular story, and make it one interesting read.
The thing that proves most interesting about the story is the title Trifles. From the start, the title doesn’t mean anything significant, until the reader reads on throughout the story. The word trifle, means anything little and small; insignificant. Throughout this story, two of the main characters’, two women on the murder scene, rummage through the now widows things who just lost her husband, and dig up little small insignificant things; trifles. What is ironically symbolic about this is the fact that these little trifles, is what goes on to solve the whole murder mystery.
The sheriff involved brings the two ladies along to help him and the county attorney get a better overview of things, seeing that one of the ladies was the murder victim’s wife’s neighbor. As they dig throughout the newly widow’s things, they bring up little insignificant things such as a quilt, a bird cage, old spoiled fruit, etc. Undoubtedly this is where the author pulls his title from, but after the two ladies retrieve all of these items, without saying the newly revealed truth to each other, the reader can figure out on his own what happened here. The two ladies reveal a bird cage, and eventually a dead bird, which seemed to have been strangled, just like how the widow’s husband was found. This is a reflection of Mr. Wright’s gruesome end. Ample detail of the kind of person Mr. Wright is supplied within the story, and one can visualize his lifestyle while reading the story, which adds to the overall visual elements that this story projects. Mr. Wright is described as a “hard man,” one who could have likely been seen as someone with a lack of feelings; uncaring. One also learns while reading that the Wrights had no children. Another reflective detail presented by one of the two ladies suggests that she had a still born child, therefore to replace the couples “lack of children,” they had a bird, something to take care of like one would a child.
From what’s presented by more visual elements supplied to the reader, one can infer, that the bird one day was chirping; singing, making a lot of noise. Mr. Wright, eventually ticked off by this infernal noise, strangled the bird. From yet another reflection about one of the ladies childhood cat that was killed by a neighborhood boy, one learns of the fondness Mrs. Wright had for the bird, and one can feel the broken heartedness she had when she found her bird, that was like a child to her, dead; strangled by her husband. From this revelation, the two ladies find out what really happened here, but surprisingly go through everything possible to conceal it from the Sheriff. More visual elements are conveyed here to the reader, as one can picture with the details given, the length at which the two ladies go through to conceal the dead bird, and along with it, the truth to what really happened on this murder scene.
Throughout this story, there are many instances of visual elements conveyed to the reader to help better picture what is going on within the story, symbolism as one can see from connecting the title with what is found within the story, and reflections, or allusions to things that actually took place based on things found on the murder scene within this story. These elements all define the character of this particular story, and make it one interesting read.
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