In "Killings" by Andre Dubus, the author explores revenge, loss, and consequences. The main character Matt Fowler has just been forced to bury his youngest son who was murdered by Richard Strout. Dubus engages his readers in a large conflict between Fowler and Strout after Strout gets out of jail on bail. Matt and his good friend Willis Trottier plot a revenge murder scheme without discussing the consequences. Matt's actions are motivated by his feelings of guilt, the support from others in the town, and his lack of trust in the justice system.
Regardless of the upcoming court victory for Matt and his family, he decides to take matters into his own hands because of his lack of trust in the justice system. Matt thought he wouldn't have to face Strout for many years, he didn't think about bail (Dubus 85). He couldn't conceive that the court system would allow someone who committed murder to walk the streets. For Matt, his family, and his friends this was torture. Matt's lack of trust grew when he began to remember a similar story of a woman who shot her husband and dropped him off a bridge. The woman spent a short time in jail and is now working as a secretary in a nearby town (Dubus 85). Matt couldn't bear facing his son's murderer in everyday life.
After the revenge murder, Matt's guilt begins to overwhelm him. Matt Fowler and his family gained a large amount of support and sympathy from others in their town. They lived in a small town in Massachusetts where members of the community ban together to help each other out during a time of need. In fact, they saw to it that Strout could get work in town. He had to tend a bar in nearby Hampton Beach where it is just tourist and kids (Dubus 85). Matt also has one of his good friends Willis Trottier helping him. Willis recognizes the pain that is being caused by Strout going on with his life as if nothing ever happened. Together they execute Strout's disappearance.
Andre Dubus's plot in "Killings" began with the burial of his youngest son Frank. ... The title of the story "Killings" tells us that his son was killed and did not die of life's natural causes. ... If "Killings" was told in chronological order, the story would have been much longer. ... They will hear of Strout's disappearance and investigation because he did jump bail for killing someone. ...
Mercy killing is the practice of killing or permitting the death of a hopelessly sick or injured individual (person or animal) in a relatively painless way. Mercy killings raise many issues, legal and ethical. ... Mercy killing is far different from suicide. ... Some of these views accept mercy killing. ... Therefore mercy killing should be legalized....
Reaction Paper ""Killings"" In the story ""Killings"" Dubus shows the pain that a father and mother have to endure through their life due to the murder of their youngest son. ... It's killing her." (84). ... Not only had Richard killed Matt's son but he was on the verge of killing Ruth's spirit. ...
Euthanasia or better known as mercy killing, is a practice of ending a life so as to release an individual life from an incurable disease or intolerable suffering. ... Sometimes fully disabled people are felt sorry for and someone takes for granted that the disabled person is "suffering" thus killing them. ... Euthanasia may be "mercy" killing but it is still murder no matter what the circumstances. ... But killing is never the right thing to do, and society must never approve Euthanasia. ...
Peter Singer tells his view on euthanasia (mercy killings) and why they should take place in some cases. ... Killing him, or letting him live? ... One one hand, killing him will end his pain, but on the other hand, it cut off the chance for him to get better. ... That usually leads to adoption, but we discussed in another entry whether it really is, indeed, killing someone if you have an abortion. ...
Analysis On: The Killing Fields A film about two reporters covering the Cambodian Revolution Directed By: Roland Joffé Two reporters, one american, another cambodian, embark on a dangerous and deadly adventure to uncover and reveal to the world the secret bombings of Cambodia by the United States during their withdrawal from Vietnam. Little did they know that they would be caught up in the seizure of Phnom Penh in 1975 by the communist leader Khmer Rouge, which later resulted in the infamous killing fields in which millions of "unloyal- Cambodians were slaughtered. ...
In the United States, we hear of women being killed because of their current or ex-boyfriend or husband killing them for reasons other then "in the name of honor." In the U.S. many of these killings between spouses in particularly men against women, are acts that have significant trades towards immorality and non-cultural beliefs. ... Killing women because of infidelity or having intercourse before the age of 18 are crimes that are considered as being "taboo." ... In the non-western culture as in the article of Jehl, honor killings are justified and are a culture that "have had to balance p...
Hitler even called them "mercy killings." ... Brandt are charged with responsibility for expanding the authority of physicians to be designated by name, to the end that patients considered incurable according to the best available human judgment of their state of health, can be granted a mercy killing" (Berenbaum 104). This decree opened the door to the killings of anyone seen as being different and incurable. ...
"The killing game" Before reading "The killing game" by Joy Williams, I considered myself a "non-hunter". However, after reading "The killing game", I had mixed feelings of how I felt about hunting. ... Mayo how she felt of the comment from "The killing game"; "Sport hunting is immoral; it should be made illegal. ... If a person is convicted of killing any deer with any lighting device is subject to a maximum fine of $5,000, five days in jail, and loss of hunting, fishing, and trapping privileges for three years." ...
