1. A kiss before dying
Book report on A Kiss before Dying Ira Levin .
Pagecount: 300 First published: 1953 .
Dorothy, Bud's girlfriend tells him she's pregnant. Bud is very angry but pretends he loves her. He gives her pills to get rid of the baby. -FLASHBACK: Bud was very popular at school. After the war he had several jobs and an affair with an rich widow. he went to Stoddart and met Dorothy. -PRESENT: If the pills won't work, Bud promises to marry Dorothy. Bud sees a golden future ahead because Dorothy's father is president of Kingships Copper and very welthy. The pills don't work and they'll marry in three days. Bud doesn't want to marry her instead he is making plans to kill her. Bud gives her poisoned pills and let her transfere a Spanish line which says something like: I'm sorry for the trouble, There is nothing else I can do. He mails the line to her sister in Dorothy's handwriting, Ellen. If Dorothy isn't dead in three days he assumes she didn't take the pills. When *he realises that Ellen would receive the messages he have to kill Dorothy by throwing her from a building. People think it was suicide, because of the note Ellen received. Bud is proud he commited a murder and got away with it. Ellen doesn't think it was suicide and starts to investigat. She wants to know who made Dorothy pregnant. She gets the names of Gordon Gant and Dwight Powell. She finds out Gordon isn't the killer. Gordon sees a letter from Ellen written to her boyfriend, Bud! She writes Bud, Dwight has to be the killer. Ellen goes out with Dwight. Later she takes him to the murderscene. Dwight doesn't seem to be it but he tells Ellen he has an adress of another friend of Dorothy's in his apartment. When they go there Bud is already waiting there. He kills Dwight, telling Ellen Dwight killed Dorothy. Bud drives Ellen out of town. Gant is worried. Bud confesses to Ellen and kills her. He is going to contact Marion. Marion likes him and doesn't mind that her father does *not.
BOOK REWIEW: A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin Portrait: Burton "Bud" Corliss is the murderer and main character in the novel. ... His marks were very good (partly by the fact that he bribed a "brilliant but unattractive" girl with some kisses), the girls liked him because of his looks and his charms and the teachers liked him because he was polite and attentive. ... The author also lets us know that he has killed before. ... On the first page in the book, it says: "A Kiss Before Dying is the classic, chilling portrait of a brilliant young psychopath who gets away with murder after mur...
This means that before this moment the author did not cry. ... In the ending of the poem, the author speaks about love and the kisses that dawn it. These kisses mark the deepness of emotion the author showed to this dying person. They also show that these kisses were meant for no one else. ... Reflecting on the past will keep the memory of good times alive, but they also bring with them the sorrow that the good times have prematurely died. ...
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Has anyone of you ever thought about AIDS before having sex without protection? ... Babies born to HIV-infected women may become infected before or during birth, through breast-feeding after birth. ... Because of theoretical potentials for contact with blood during French or open mouth kissing this activity is not recommended with the infected person. ... A person dies two months later. ... Don't die of ignorance! ...
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