ive got a narrative to retell the trial through the character Dill's point of view,,, any ideas??
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Dill has a completely different point of view from the other characters because he is not from Maycomb.  He is an outsider, like Dolphus Raymond (check out the scene during the trial when the two of them talk for ideas), so Dill sees things from a more objective perspective than Scout and Dill.  \nHe also has more life experience than the other kids and is more cynical than them, so he is able to see the trial from a view point that is more akin to Atticus's.  One of the things that he's especially bothered about in the trial is how the prosecuting attorney, Mr. Gilmer, treats Tom Robinson on the stand- he calls Tom names like "boy" and refers to him as a "big buck" or an animal.  Dill sees that these are offensive and racist and he understands that Tom is not getting a fair trial.  He cries because of this and also because most of the other people in the audience do not even blink when Tom is so mistreated.  He is saddened by the world and not at all surprised when Tom is found guilty.
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As Matt was leaving, he said to Kitty, keep that light on for me.\n\nMiss Kitty asked him where he was going and Matt replied  " Kitty, we've never needed explanations before."\n\nKitty said mister, you aren't the first gunny come lookin' for me and you won't be the last, and if you start horsing around, I'm gonna get on you like ugly on an ape.\n\nMatt left and Kitty turned on Festus and says " Festus, is there anything in that head of yours, that you would let Matt go after those robbers by himself?  What if something happens to him.  You know, no woman ever loved a man more that I loved Matt Dillon.  Now I suggest you, get off your dead @ss and get on that mule of yours and go help Matt."\n\nWith that Festus didn't argue with Miss Kitty and he left.
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Unfortunately the courts in this country favor the accused when it comes to justice. A personal thought, you may want to keep a journal on hand so that you can keep all incidents, such as his remarks towards killing himself, on file. Just have the date/time, explanation of incident. This may help should you need to go through a major trial or anything of that nature.\nI'd keep pulling strings, piss some people off, get a lawyer working along side of you. If the lower courts refuse to do anything, I'd take it to higher courts.
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heck yes!! I think that would be pretty cool. who wouldnt love to think back and remember when you played a dead person on CSI. i think it would be a great story to telll the grandkids. lol
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I want to read the book. The only thing I don't get is why would he write a hypothetical book about murder? This book is obviously his subtle confession!!! Why not call the book "I did it, this is how"\n\nDouble Jeopardy laws prevent him from getting put into jail. He just needs to flat out say: "I did it!" \n\nAnd seeing as this book is making a lot of money (seeing as he killed her) he should pay the families affected. If he didn't people would hate him, or at least I would.
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The Whole story is based on a land owner supposedly from Nottingham that was named Robert Hod. He became disillusioned with his family's way of life and went to live as a hermit in the wilds of the country side. There are accounts of a wild woodman attacking travellers on the local roads, which is ultimately where the tales come from. \n\nThis has always been attributed to Nottingham and Sherwood Forest, However a recent discovery about 2 miles outside Sheffield throws the whole story into a different direction. Remains of a primitive hovel were discovered and dated back to about 1120 AD and believe it or not Sheffield Council and Tourism Board are in the process of trying to prove outright that Robin Hod (Hood) was in fact a Yorkshire man who never went near Nottingham or Sherwood Forest.\n\nHope that helps a bit.\n\nRob
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I was 25 years old and working at a newspaper in the newsroom when this trial was happening. I remember sitting, stunned when the verdict was read, and everyone around me exploding in disbelief! The more time that elapses since the trial, the harder it may be for some to remember the massive amounts of evidence that were presented, and that the only reason this trial ended in acquittal was because the police screwed up quite a bit.\n\nBTW, I know Henry Lee is a very well-respected forensic scientist, but I think he's so self-promoting that he would do anything and say anything to get on television, including (but not limited to) saying what the people who are paying him want to hear!!
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If the story uses the words "I" or "me" a lot then it is first-person, of the story uses "she" or "he" a lot than it is third person, i am not going to give you a direct answer though. you should figure it out urself
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Try the plot-o-matic, it helps in just this type of instance.\n\nGood luck with your story :-)
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1.point of view :Scout narrates in the first person, telling what she saw and heard at the time and augmenting this narration with thoughts and assesments of her experiences in retrospect. Although she is by no means an omniscient narrator, she has matured considerably over the  years and often implicitly and humorously comments on the naïveté she displayed in her thoughts and actions as a young girl. Scout mostly tells of her own thoughts but also devotes considerable time to recounting and analyzing Jem’s thoughts and actions.(taken from sparknotes.com)\n2.Maycomb county\n3.The town believes that a mad person named Boo Radley lived inside.People said he went out at night when the moon was high and peeped in windows....Any stealthy crimes commited in Maycomb were his work.And so on.You are right.it was due to gossips.\n4.They thought that he once, while cutting articles out of the newspaper for his scrapbook, plunged his pair of scissors into his father's leg.Jem also believes that Boo had died and was stuffed up the chimney.And so on...\n5.It is YOUR impression....I personally don't know.\n6.The way they talk,of course...\n\n7.championship?\n\n8.You never really understand a person until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.(consider things from their point of view.)\n9.Of course.But there should be more of his type of character today.\n\n10.He wouldn't.He asks them not to torment Boo Radley.\n\n11.She is trustworthy and does not gossip like the other women in town.She is honest and upright like Atticus.
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The Baudelaire's meet Count Olaf, and his neighbour Justice Strauss, who is possibly the only nice adult they ever do meet, apart from Uncle Monty.  They learn that their inheritance will  not be paid to them until Violet reaches 18.\nCount Olaf decides to marry Violet, which is a little disconcerting given she is about 14 in the book, and he puts a ply on called The Marvellous Marriage intending to marry Violet legally during the play.\nKlaus sits up all night reading about laws and works out the Counts evil plan.\nCount Olaf  locks their baby sister in a cage high up in the air to blackmail Violet into agreeing to the marriage.\nViolet signs the marriage document and it looks as though the Count has his evil plan all sorted out, until Violet announces that she signed it with her left hand and so her signature isn't legal.  The count protests and Justice Strauss said it would probably be upheld in a court of law because if Violet signed her name using her right hand the two signatures would be difficult to prove as belonging to the same person.\nJustice Strauss offers the orphans a home with her but Mr Poe says he can't allow it because the parents will stipulated the children must be raised by a relative
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There's not enough about the story to answe that.what mistress? you could choose to make it so that only the main character and zeek have issues or he could be the bad guy period. Everyone has issues with him and he's just a jerk altogether. Where can we read the story when it's finished? Sounds good. You could e mail it too me:) I would love to read the whole thing.
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My daughters were "following" this and still the stories conflict.  I think it's all just gossip.  Want to start some new gossip?  How about we all get together and agree that she was really in prison for stealing diamonds from Saks Fifth Avenue?\n\nSeriously?  Who knows?
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Overall, this is good, an apt description of a courtroom scene.  \n\nSome suggestions I would make:\n\n1) Your verb tenses are all over the place - past, present, etc.  You are describing what happened 3 days ago, so it should all be past tense - Suddenly Ralph [rose/got up/stood angrily] and [screamed/accused], "You're such a liar!"  - for example.\n"Flew" is the past tense of "fly."\n\n2) Did Ralph attack Jack or not?  The first paragraph says yes, the second paragraph says no, "almost."\n\n3) The courtroom did not start out a hush, it started out a courtroom.  It could have started out IN or WITH a hush, but a better way to put it might be "All voices were low and hushed as the court proceedings began.  Soon the murder trial started.  Jack seemed to be making very opinionated/wild/outlandish statements." ["incredible" is your opinion - are you supposed to be neutral?]\n\nA good start!  Good luck!
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An examination of the main character, Meursault, in "The Stranger" by Albert Camus would be excellent.  The book is a quick read, only about 120 pages or so.   One theme of the book deals with people's perceptions and the idea that just because people think something to be true does not make it true.  \n\nMany people judge the guilt of the main character based on certain observations of his behaviour, but none that should factor into his culpability regarding a certain act he commits.    \n\n(If you choose this topic, buy the Cliff Notes to read after you have read the book.  Quite fascinating.)
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Hi Amy, not sure what the previous post was about, but it was clearly uncalled for.\n\nAs a lawyer who has seen the movie (albeit a while back) I am sure there are many issues you could raise.  This is all just sort of stream of consciousness off the top of my head, so I apologize if it's not too organized, but here are a few thoughts.\n\n1)  It seems to me that much of the protagonist's (I've forgotten his name) actions are designed at misleading others.  If he does this for his own material gain he may be comitting fraud (for example, doesn't he mislead the former Marlboro man into accepting a cash settlement of some sort-?--that could be a fraudulent inducement into a contract).\n2)You also might want to look into whether or not there are any applicable lobbying laws he violates.\n3)  Are there laws against "pushing"cigarettes to minors (I'm thinking of the little classroom lecture he gives) or something similar.\n\nThe best way to do legal research for applicable cases or statutes is using lexis nexis or Westlaw.  To the unitiated these databases can be daunting, but if you are at a large university you may be able to get access at the law library.  Failing that, you might want to go to a local law library and ask the librarian for help (call ahead and explain the situation to clear access ahead of time).  Yet another option is to check out www.findlaw.com, which generally provides access to cases and articles free of charge, but is no where near as sophisticated as Lexis or Westlaw.  Finally, you might call your state bar association's relevant sub group or a Washington Lobbying or ethics organization (I do not know but suspect there are several) and see if they have any suggestions.  Research is about getting your hands dirty and hitting dead ends until something clicks into place.  Good luck!
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I hope there was more to the beginning of that story, it felt like I was reading it from the middle of a scene.\n\nThe note could have said "Murderer" or something like "I saw you" or "Die Murderer", etc.\n\nOkay not the question you asked.  \nShe thinks she's dreaming, things are just too strange.  She walks around the house trying to figure out why she's not waking up.  She goes outside and its pretty normal looking from where she is standing.  Finally she is walking to her mail box, nothing out of place on her walk.\nShe gets her mail and finally looks up at the house from the road and sees her lawn is torn up near the garage, blood splatter is on the cement.  She opens the garage door to see what happened to her car to discover .....\n\n*put your twist in right there.\n\nOr she wakes up, is groogy. Thinking to herself it really was all a bad dream. She tries to sit up but finds that she can't.  The room is dark, only a small light comes thru the window. She is pinned down, can't cry out, just has to lay there and wonder where she is and how she got there. She can't remember anything past talking to her friend Lisa about a party.\nSuddenly the room fills with light, a person enters the room, its a nurse.  She now realizes she is in the hospital.  She still can't move or speak.  The nurse is talking to her, talking like she doesn't expect her to hear.  \n\nShe wonders where her family is, why is no one in the room with her if she's in the hospital. Where are her friends? Her boyfriend? Her parents?  The nurse continues to work in the room, a second nurse comes in. They talk like she can't hear them, they gossip.\nOne nurse says "She the only survivor" the other nurse replies "yes"\nThe nurses are talking about a tragic car accident, a drunk driver.  \nThe nurses continue talking one says "Why is it the drunk is the one that always survives?" \nShe tries to say something, to she wants to tell them that she survived it too.\nSlowly it begins to occur to her that she was the drunk driver.