Municipal Report & Jury of Her Peers

Chris Pringle English 1010 Dr. Gabriel October 5, 2000 Essay Three People do whatever they can to get ahead. They would lie, cheat, and steal. The two stories “A Municipal Report” and “Jury of Her Peers” is said to have common plots. I do not find this to be true. Also the two stories attempt to reveal truths of human life. “A Municipal Report” was written by O’ Henry. What I took from the story is very odd. …

…find a strangled canary. In quilt-like fragments, they piece together the difficult life of the third woman and decide to conceal the evidence that could incriminate her. In a way this story does make sense. People would act in anyway they could to hide something. This story reveals certain truths about aspects of human life. They also succeeded. Deep down inside of the story there is a moral, a lesson to be learned. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**