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In addition, literary violence can serve as a protest against real-life violence; as a metaphor for the meaninglessness and ugliness of man's inhumanity. Shirley Jackson 's " The Lottery ", which depicts a brutal stoning ritual that claims the life of an innocent townsperson each year, was intentionally written to expose the pointless violence ...
The Gangster (Paul Bettany and Malcolm McDowell) - Gangster No. 1; Benito García (Adal Ramones) - Saving Private Perez; Fernando "El Jefe" Garcia - Close Range; Julio Gonzales (Jimmy Smits) - Running Scared; Hideaki Goto (Kenichi Endo) - The Raid 2; Moe Greene - The Godfather; Manny "Papi" Greco (Edward James Olmos) - 2 Guns
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets is a memoir written by Sudhir Venkatesh. [1] The book chronicles the life of the urban poor and explores Venkatesh's views on poverty, money, gangs, drugs, and life in Chicago. [2] [3] In 2017, it was reported that AMC Networks would be developing a drama series adapted from the ...
This list is for characters in fictional works who exemplify the qualities of an antihero—a protagonist or supporting character whose characteristics include the following: imperfections that separate them from typically heroic characters (such as selfishness, cynicism, ignorance, and bigotry); [1]
In real life, there are cases in history and popular culture where people have been perceived as reluctant heroes. One of the earliest occurrences of this archetype may be the biblical prophet Jonah , who refused to be elected, fled God's injunction to take on his responsibility as a prophet, only accepting it after his tribulation in the belly ...
Khabardar Shahri (rough Hindi translation of "vigilante"), one of the most famous vimal series of novels by Surender Mohan Pathak in which the hero, a serious offender on brink of reform takes up arms once again to punish five rapists one of whom is nephew of the kingpin of the local crime syndicate which results in a new gang war and the ...
For instance, the Dortmunder stories of Donald E. Westlake are highly comic tales involving unusual thefts by a gang of offbeat characters—in different stories Dortmunder's gang steals the same gem several times, steals an entire branch bank, and kidnaps someone from an asylum by driving a stolen train onto the property.
Sherlock Holmes (foreground) oversees the arrest of a criminal; this hero of crime fiction popularized the genre.. Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, crime novel, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder. [1]