Comparative Essay
Comparative Essay
In this essay, a comparison between the novels False Impression, and The Brethren will
be made. Although the authors captivate their audience with compelling quotes and
facts about the characters, their sudden turn to misleading statistics sometimes
failed to persuade the reader that what he is saying is true about some characters.
In the book False Impression, the author shows how anybody who wants something
bad enough will go and get it, even if it means murder. Anna Petrescu is running
around the world to save her life. She has worked at Fenston finance for 2 years now and
she’s finally figuring out that every couple months, people are slowly being murdered.
These people are being murdered because of an impression painting by Van Gogh. Anna
is now seeing that she is being followed by men who work for Fenston finance and she is
soon being run around the world for a painting that has been in Anna’s family forever.
This part of the book shows that people, especially people with power, will do anything
to get what they want. Bryce Fenston murders innocent people to get what he wants.
Comparatively, in the book The Brethren, there are three former southern judges, serving
time together in a federal prison for various bad deeds, which have taken away their
freedom and their status in the community. However, inside the prison, they continue to
practice law without a license, and concoct a blackmail scheme that begins making them
some money, that is, until they bag a powerful 'mark’ that could jeopardize everything.
When they are planning this scheme they are not aware of how many people they could
hurt, or even kill. A quote from the...
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