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A Crime In The Neigborhood - Term Papers

A Crime In The Neigborhood

It was the summer of 1972 when Spring Hill, a Washington, D.C., suburb, got its first taste of an increasingly violent, insecure modern world. The quiet residential area, whose inhabitants traditionally left their doors unlocked and spent the summers attending one another's cookout, was
rocked by the news that 12-year-old Boyd Ellison had been raped and murdered, his body dumped
behind the local mall. While shaken residents organized a neighborhood watch program and clued
detectives in on anyone's suspicious behavior, the inhabitants of at least one house were distracted by a tragedy of their own: 10-year-old Marsha Eberhardt's father, Larry, had run off with his sister-in-law, leaving his ...

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it is by no means the only one, Marsha's father and aunt run off together and Marsha wrongly accusses Mr. Green for the death of Boyd Ellison.
Marsha's father had left before the summer Boyd Ellison was killed. The divorce had a tremendous impact on the whole family. Marsha's twin brother and sister spent the summer away on vacation and since Marsha had her ankle in a cast, she wasn't able to do things most kids did during the summer vacation like swimming. Marsha remembered "it was only after my father left and Boyd Ellison was killed that I started to wonder to myself what might happen next."(35) Since Marsha had so much time on her hands during the summer of '72, she seemed to fill the time with investigating who could have killed Boyd Ellison. She kept a journal of her thoughts and even goes so far as to keeping track of Mr. Green's daily routines. It could be that Marsha needed to get her mind off of her parents divorce, and the murder of Boyd Ellison did exactly that. Marsha ...

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Mr. Green's car drive past the house, two hours before he normally got home from work. Later Mr.Green pulled up ten minutes before his usual time ... he looked sallow as he got out of his car, a little bruised around the mouth, and he had a Band-Aid stuck below his lower lip."(86) This particular event made Marsha very curious of Mr. Green especially since it had been the same day that Boyd was murdered. From this point on she had wondered if the killer lived right next door to her and her family.

Another possible reason that Marsha gets caught up in her "detective" work is that she's lonely. She doesn't have many friends to play with and since her brother and sister are gone, she's ...

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Added: 6/18/2005 03:50:46 AM
Category: English
Type: Free Paper
Words: 1339
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