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who is "the guilty party" at the end of the text, and how do his actions contribute to
the story's theme?
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the story is called “the guilty party”

The guilty party at the end of the story is Lizzie's father John.

John's neglecting of her daughter Lizzie in her childhood contributes to the story's theme of guilt, responsibility, betrayal, and redemption.

Explanation:

"The Guilty Party" is O. Henry's short story from 1909.

In the start of the story it is narrated through third person point of view, and some times by Lizzie's first person narration that Lizzie as child loves her father a lot. But her father keeps neglecting her, and does not give her time. It is apparently because he is busy with his business but on deeper level, he representing a typical father in a male dominant society of late nineteenth and early twentieth century, does not want to spend time with his child.

In the next part Lizzie as an adult is engaged to Kid, but he too behaves just like her father. He betrays Lizzie by dancing and spending more time with Annie. This frustrates Lizzie who as an act of redemption kills Kid.

The court officer wants to give Lizzie a benefit. He wants Lizzie to be judged based on the real cause behind her action. He considers Lizzie's father a real guilty party, for neglecting his child when she needed his time and attention needed to guide her in proper and appropriate manner.

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the hunger games, written by  suzanne collins, is fiction in the young adult genre, which is not my age group, but i found myself unable to put it down. its combination of nerve-racking tension, thrilling action, and engaging love story kept me up until the wee hours. i was surprised at how completely engrossing the plot was. like  brave new world, this story is set in a future where the government oppresses its people, but the book also borrows ideas from the greek myth of theseus and the minotaur.

divided into 12 districts, ruled by an oppressive government located at the  capitol. katniss everdeen, a 16-year-old girl from district 12, takes her younger sister’s place as one of 24 “tributes” selected every year to participate in the hunger games at the capitol.

while i found this book absolutely enthralling, i was surprised it was aimed at an audience of young adults. it seems extremely intense for anyone younger than 16 or 17. for example, there is a scene where one young tribute is slowly eaten alive by wolf-like creatures all night long, and katniss has to finally throw a weapon at him to end his misery. i found this a little too disturbing when i considered the age of the character.

the intensity of the action was something one would find in a more mature book, but the age of the characters and the simplicity of the prose were aimed at a much younger audience. in addition, this book was written in present tense, which i found annoying, but that’s more of a personal preference than a stylistic fault. it was also edited somewhat poorly, but that rarely distracted from the plot. for example, the author often spoke in sentence fragments to describe how katniss felt, which might have been an attempt to reflect on her thought process, but i found it disorienting to read a lot of really short sentences all together. it would have been better to vary the sentence length on occasion, but the story was still coherently.

overall,  the hunger games  was an excellent, enthralling read that i highly recommend. if it was more clearly marked for older teens, it would have been better, but it was a fantastic book with a wonderfully creative plot.

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