In the short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" we see a family that goes on a vacation and they take a detour as they wanted to see a house on a dirt road on the way they were headed. As they approach the house they run into The Misfit who is a criminal that escaped prison and was on the lose.
Poem #1 The introduction of the 3 main characters, the grandmother, John Weasely, and June Star. As they also introduce the Misfit who ends up being a big issue for the family later on in the story. “Now look here, Bailey” "See here, read this," "Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit aloose from the Federal Pen Headed toward Florida The children have been to Florida before I wouldn't take my children With a criminal like that aloose” John Wesley An eight-year-old boy “If you don't want to go Why dontcha stay at home” June Star “She wouldn't stay at home for a million bucks She has to go everywhere we go." The grandmother “Just remember that the next time you want me to curl your hair” Poem #2 The family took a detour to see a house and they get into an accident which leads to meeting the Misfit for the first time throughout the story There was a secret panel Let's go see it! We'll find it! We'll poke all the woodwork and find it! "We never have seen a house with a secret panel!" Hey Pop, can't we go see No He children began to yell and scream The baby began to scream All right! Will you all shut up? but get this This is the only time we're going to stop for anything like this. The dirt road no one had traveled on it in months "It's not much farther," The car turned over once landed right-side-up We've had an ACCIDENT!
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In the short story, “Bullet in the Brain” we witnessed a crime scene at a bank at a bank around closing time with a man who couldn’t keep his mouth shot getting him shot by one of the robbers.
The final minutes of a TD Bank being opened two men in blue suits and ski masks attempted an armed robbery. One of the men was carrying a pistol and another was carrying a sawed off shotgun. They took down the security guard at the door, cuffed him, and forced him to let them in. As they walked in they handed each of the bank tellers a bag and forced all of them to fill it. A man at the age of 50 named Anders spoke his mind during the crime scene and put himself in a very bad situation between him and the robbers getting him shot right in the skull and ended up being the only man killed during the crime scene. A woman by the name of Zabelle was standing in front of him the entire time and told us that he had received many warnings from the robbers to stop talking and that he shouldn’t mess with them but instead couldn’t take them seriously and started bursting out laughing in the middle of the bank which drove the robber to putting a bullet in his brain. Zabelle also added that he seemed “open minded and couldn’t keep anything to himself, he just had to always share what he was thinking. It seemed like he wanted this to happen to himself.” One of the bank tellers was hoping that Anders would keep quiet so that it didn’t have to be as bad as the situation already was. The police arrived at the scene too late as the robbers have escaped with thousands of dollars. The security cameras couldn’t identify any of the men and they are still on the loose today. The height of these two men are 6’4” and 5’11”. The shorter one is a little chubbier than the taller one and the taller one has a tattoo on his neck of a the date “11/11/11”. They drove off in a red ford focus with no license plate and a dent on the bumper of the car. So far this is all that the FBI was able to identify of these two men. If these men are found, captured, and brought to the police, the FBI will issue a $10,000 reward. In the short story, “Redeployment” we see Sgt. Price coming home from a 7 month deployment in Iraq and he has to adjust to things the way they used to be. The main thing he noticed the most is how his dog Vicar got more and more sick over the years.
Vicar throwing up in the house was the final straw. My wife wanted to take Vicar to the vet but I made an argument saying that I can do it myself for free and not waste any money for someone to do the same thing he can do. Making my own own decision and being the rebel I am I take Vicar out late at night behind my wife’s back to the trail we normally would go to. I thought it would be a very simple procedure because I’ve shot many dogs during my deployment. I take my rifle and load it with the one bullet I would need and as I’m about to pull the trigger all these memories of the three of us come to mind and how happy my wife was and I feel like she would be devastated to see me go behind her back like this. I took a deep breath, closed my eyes, and pulled the trigger aiming right between the eyes. I came home with a trash bag that Vicar’s body was in and the entire ride home I had no idea how I was gonna play this the next morning when she would ask where Vicar has gone. I come in turn on the lights and there she is sitting on the couch with her arms and legs crossed giving me the death stare. She notices that Vicar was missing and not sleeping in the bed he usually sleeps in. Without saying a word she grabs the trash bag and dumps out the body onto the floor with blood splattering everywhere. I saw tears go down her cheeks and she began sobbing. I try comforting her but she pushes me away and goes back to our bedroom. I stand there for a few minutes thinking to myself, “what have I done?” I go to our bedroom to talk to her about this and she already has a bag packed ready to leave. Not telling me where she’s going or what her plan is she leaves the house with everything she owns and ever since that night I haven’t seen or heard from her since. I knew i just made the biggest mistake of my life because two of the most valuable things in my life are now gone and I feel like I have nothing to live for anymore. |