Part one of term paper
In a crowded city such as Manhattan, it was no wonder that a man like Jerry felt lonely. He was without a friend, a mother and father, and the typical “wife, two children, and a dog,” that many others had. Jerry was thrown in a world that he felt did not want him, and his human flaw of wanting to escape loneliness led to his tra ...

Part two of term paper
... existentialism. Jerry made a conscious choice of wanting to end his life, while Peter, a man that chose to act as the “guinea pig” and stayed and listened to Jerry’s story, made a conscious choice of picking up same knife that killed Jerry. Although it was Peter who held the knife that killed Jerry, it was Jerry who took the responsibility to - despite great effort and pain – “wipe the knife handle clean of fingerprints” to allow no trace of the murderer. Ho ...