Essay :(

[Sawyer]

Ok so i have this essay due tommarow - i need to use quotes etc. i have to prove a point. i want to use these quotes - some - not all - i want to prove that there was either justice or not justice in teh book Montana 1948. I realy hope that whoever reads this has read this book. Plx help

this is basicly the basic essay.. i just need to like.. do stuff ot it

im gettin fustereratededed

Gail and Wes
“My father went on. “I think the problem’s been taken care of. Frank said he’s going to cut it out.”
“Oh Wes-ley!” Her words came out in a moan, and I almost gave myself away by leaning forward to see if my mother was in pain.
“What?” my father replied, his confusion apparent and sincere. “What is it?”
“What about what’s already been done? What about that, that . . . damage?”
“It can’t be undone. That’s passed. That’s over and done.”
My mother’s voice became so low and tender it seemed better suited for an expression of love than what she actually said. “That’s not the way it works. You know that. Sins—crimes—are not supposed to go unpunished.”
Even then I knew what the irony of the conversation was: the secretary lecturing the lawyer, the law-enforcement officer, on justice.
My father was silent for such a long time I thought the conversation was over. At last he said, “He’ll have to meet his punishment in the hereafter. I won’t do anything to arrange it in this life.” (85)

Gail – Mind Changed
“You can simply open that door.” She pointed to the basement door. “Go ahead. Let him go. That will take care of everything.” … “Oh, yes I do. Yes. I certainly do mean that. Let him go. Get him out of here. Then I won’t have to walk around my own house thinking I hear him breathing down there. I won’t have to worry about him breaking out—bursting into the kitchen like, like . . . like I don’t know what. A crazy man! And I won’t have to worry about strange men breaking in to break him out. . . . Let him go. Let him do whatever he wants to do to whomever he wants. I don’t care anymore. I just want my house back. I want my family safe.” (143)

Wes – Mind Changed
“David, I believe that in this world people must pay for their crimes. It doesn’t matter who you are or who your relations are; if you do wrong, you pay. I believe that. I have to.” He pushed himself up stiffly from the table. “But that doesn’t mean the sun’s going to shine.” (156)

David with a gun
“I still had my grandfather’s pistol, tucked inside the waist-band of my jeans. I took it out, thumbed off the safety, and rested the gun against the stub of a branch. My view of Uncle Frank was unobstructed, and I steadied the sights on his head, right in front of his ear.
The gun was unloaded, of course, but I wondered at that moment what might happen if it weren’t. And my first question wasn’t, could I pull the trigger; it was, could I, from that distance, with that weapon, under those conditions—the wind, the slope of the hill—hit my target. Only after I decided, probably not—an unfamiliar gun, its small caliber, my poor marksmanship—did I wonder might happen if I killed my uncle. Would everyone’s problems be solved? Would my father be relieved? Could I get away with it?” (83-84)

David – End of Book
“You see, I knew—I knew! I knew—that Uncle Frank’s suicide had solved all our problems.
My father would not have to march his brother across the street to jail.
There would be no trial, no pile of testimony for jurors to sift through, trying to separate the inevitable one-eighth, one-quarter, one-half truths from the whole truth. No pressure on anyone to come forward and bear witness, no reputations damaged, no one embarrassed, no one chastised. . . . The town would not have to choose sides over guilt or innocence.” (161)

Overview
Their views on justice do not change. They both knew that he should go to jail. At first Wes did not want to bring him to jail because he was his brother, and his father would hate him if he did – it would have broken the family apart. After he realized that Frank killed Marie, he knew that Frank must be punished – the crimes were too great. Gail wanted Frank to go to jail from the start – she later changes her mind when Julian’s employee’s come to free Frank. She decides that she would rather have Frank be free then have to deal with the consequences of putting Frank in jail – family safety over serving justice. - Throughout the story David knew that Frank’s death would make things right one way or another. It did not make things completely right though, they had to move away, because they could not deal with the guilt of the cover up. They wanted to forget what happened.

[stuartg85]