Brison Hood

The Perfect Crime: By Peter Bozzo

“The Perfect Crime” by Peter Bozzo is an argumentative essay that our English 103 class was required to read. This reading is to help us with our project 5 paper that is based on an argument that we find most appealing. Hopefully this reading will help add support as well as help finish the overall development of our own argumentative paper.

The main argument that I saw was presented in the film: Paradise Lost; The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills definitely does a great job of setting the scene for the audience about how the three teenagers are innocent and they are accused of murder. I feel that this was the scene that the author and producers wanted the audience to see as they want the suspense to build and allow for each audience member to formulate their own opinion. The filmmakers entered a pathological sphere and the author claimed that the information was not presented in a way that accurate in the minds of the public sphere.

The author basically structured the argumentative essay in a way that was very easy to understand and the information was presented clearly. The author then goes on to compare both the public sphere and then the pathological public sphere. The author then goes on to explain both of the views. Bozzo does a great job of giving the audience all of the facts so that they can really form their own opinions without any outside influences. He then gives the audience the facts of evidence which eventually shifts the primary focus of the argument to give the three teenagers in the film who are allegedly responsible for murder a chance at innocent in the eyes of the audience.

This argument is very helpful because it really connects and goes full circle with what we have been learning all year in our English 103 class. It gives great examples on concrete instances along with great alternatives to convey the message that we want our readers to take away from our work. After reading this essay Im more confident that I can write an argumentative essay and support it with facts that will strengthen the credibility of my argument. I also want my essay to flow as easily as this one because I feel that I will make it easier for the reader to understand the point that I cam trying to convey.

Similar Short Story Analyses 

“A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor is about a family planning a vacation. Everyone wants to drive down to Florida, but the grandmother wants to go to Tennessee. She tries to get the family to not go to Florida by telling them there is a killer on the loose down there, who is know as the Misfit. The family doesn't listen to her and they drive to Florida. Then they stop at some barbecue joint called Red Sammy's. The grandmother and Red talk about how people are not nice anymore. Red says that "good men are hard to find", then he talks about how Europe is to blame for everything that is wrong in the world. As the road trip continues, the grandmother wants to stop at some plantation in Georgia. But then she remembers the plantation is in Tennessee and she gets upset, and shakes her seat. The cat that the grandmother secretly brought, jumps out on Bailey, who is the driver, and he lost control of the car and they go into a ditch. Then a hearse pulls up and 3 guys get out. The grandmother recognizes one as The Misfit, and she is scared and tries to persuade him not to kill her, by kissing up to him and ask him why he is doing this and she even offer to bribe him, but nothing works.

The Grandmother goes back to her memory of visiting the plantation: "All at once they would be on a hill, looking down over the blue tops of trees for miles around, then the next minute, they would be in a red depression with the dust-coated trees looking down on them." Notice O'Connor's use of the words "red depression" and "dust-coated trees." Soon, the family would literally be covered red with blood, while dust has always been symbolic of death. Here the author uses vivid descriptions and details to show the reader what exactly is going through the mind of the main character. This was one of the techniques that we discussed heavily in class and O’Connor does an effective job of giving just the right amount of detail to set the scene and put the rest of the story in motion with subtle hints of foreshadowing that let the reader know what might happen next. 

In the end of O'Connor's story, the Misfit says that if Jesus really did raise people from the dead, then he would not be killing people and committing acts of meanness for pleasure. When the grandmother reaches out, saying "You're one of my own children!" the Misfit withdraws "as if a snake had bitten him," and shoots her three times. Then the Misfit says, "She would of been a good woman... if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." Through this specific line of O’Connor’s short story, I related my story through the overarching theme that is used within this text. When reading this story through once it is hard to see what I am talking about, but the irony in this statement is the Misfit saying that in the midst of death, everyone has a change of heart and acts with kind words because their life is on the line. While we don't know the grandmother's life story, we can tell that compared to her family, she was a good woman and did live by the word of God. In my story, when I have made my decision not to eat and then I put my parents and myself into a situation that could have been fatal made me have a change of heart and changed my mind to live a better life. Also the Grandmother felt criticized for her religiousness, just like I felt criticized for the way I looked. Flannery O’Connor does an excellent job of employing the techniques of details and literary devices. He really knows how to put the reader in suspense with foreshadowing and dramatic detailing of the major events within the story. He also uses good plot twists that allow the reader to be intrigued further into his work. This piece will also help me to revise my work so that I can further build suspense to better communicate my story to my readers. 

Structural Analyses

In my short story I have chosen to employ the structural techniques of two models. First I used the hierarchical structure because of a variety of different scenarios that I included in my piece of literature. In the beginning of my story I simply state the motivation in which I want the reader to know about why I wanted to change the way I looked. Throughout the story I created vivid settings as each scene changed and new places I traveled.  From the start I stated the actions I took in order to complete the goal behind the motivation I had. With every action, comes a reaction and there were many complications I faced throughout the course of events. The outcome of my story was a least a successful one as I learned from my mistakes and regained the trusting relationship I have with my parents. Through this specific order of structure that I implemented within my writing it is safe to say that the hierarchical structure was effectively used to get the story across to my readers.  The second model I used was the Mental Model because I wanted to create a map of events for my readers so that they could better understand the story. I created vivid visual references and details to give my readers an accurate representation of all the people, places, and events that I encountered. This allowed for my readers to have a chance to picture the same scenes that I saw as the events were unfolding. This was very difficult when trying to write a story because it very hard to know exactly what details to give so that the reader knows what is going on in the story. It is hard to know what details need to be added because I know exactly how the events played out but it was a challenge to write in a way that made sense to the reader. I found it especially difficult to let the reader into my mind, as some of things I chose to share were very personal I had not told anyone outside of my family walls. Overall I feel like I accomplished the goals that I set structurally for giving an accurate representation of what I was facing at the time.