What Is Willy Beachum Code Of Justice

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Final Essay Topic #1 Fracture 2007 directed by Gregory Hoblit demonstrated the challenges a detective must take to prove himself capabilities. Willy Beachum wanted justice to be serve for Nikki Gardner. Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley, Easy Rawlins was determined to find Daphne Monet. In The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo (2011), Lisbeth Salander suffered while trying to find a missing girl. “The Purloined Letter” by Edgar Allen Poe identifies the strategies the character used to accomplish his goal. As well in the “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe. The protagonists had clear sense of what was important in their life. There are standards of behavior that detectives go by in order to succeed.
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He couldn’t file a second trial for the same crime because it was against the constitution. When he found himself without any scape of solving the mystery. He tried to focus on a different strategy. He read many books and found out that he was able to start another trial for attempted murder against Ted. When he saw the opportunity, he wasn’t afraid to confront Ted. Willy’s limitation in the government didn’t bring him down because he could have done the wrong thing to win the case, but he was honest to himself and found a solution. He didn’t want any criminals to be free when they didn’t deserve it. On the other hand, in the novel Devil In A Blue Dress, Easy’ s code of conduct affected the expectations and standards of the environment. There was a race difference, dividing the black and white. “The police didn’t care about crime among Negroes” (pg. 208). Easy felt that there was preference over race, and the police only came when the victim was white. “To kill a white man was a real crime”. Easy knows how corrupted the system is, and instead telling the truth of who committed each crime at the end of the novel, he decided to keep the money and remain silence because society wasn’t going to accept him. Similarly, The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo (2011) Lisbeth codes of work don’t blend in with what her environment expects. She is not the common investigator because she hacks into computers, and has a style of punk rock which most female don’t have. All the characters have different method of doing their negotiation which affected the rules of their

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