Description: This is a formal, multi-paragraph essay and should include an introductory paragraph with a thesis, body paragraphs that support the thesis, and a conclusion paragraph. explain how this quote does or does not hold true in one of the stories we have read thus far:
“The hard-boiled private eye in current fiction represents a clarity of vigor, the immediacy of a justice no longer evident in the courts, an antidote to our confusion and our fearfulness. In a country where violence is out of control, the hard-boiled private eye exemplifies containment, order, and hope, with the continuing, unspoken assertion that the individual can still make a difference…The hard-boiled private eye novel is still the classic struggle between good and evil played out against the backdrop of our social interactions” (qtd. in Kaufman and Kay 227).
read page 254-309(trouble is my business)