Women- Like Levi Ames, Mount tries to blame his life of crime on the company of bad women. He says that these women are “the first seducers of all evil, and if their extravegancies are not gratified to the full, become our betrayers.  He has a lot in common with Powers (impulsivity, lack of conscience) and, like Powers, he believes seduction by women made him corrupt.

Flash Phrases- Just as Mountain’s gang was reminiscent of modern crime, the code used by the Flash society seems very modern.  It is more of a slang than a code.  Some of the words are still used.  Snitch is used everywhere and peepers is a pretty common word for eyes.  Grub and quid are also still used.  It’s interesting to know that some of the slang we use now came from thieves in the late 1700s.  I think my favorite flash phrase is sucky, for drunk.

awful sin –  This is the terminology used by Powers to refer to his sexual acts these lustful desires were the reason of his downfall.  He says that he disobeyed his master but it was the lust for flesh that began at when he and another woman were left at the house alone that resulted in his raping of a young woman and the death sentence.  He attempted rape twice and was successful once, sealing his fate.

jollity –  Powers writes that this happiness he sensed about his death and his secret hope of further escape kept the notion of his impending doom from troubling his mind.  This seems very odd the the countenances of his spectators would help ease his mind, as if knowing everyone else is happy he is dying makes him feel as if it isn’t so bad.  Very bizarre thought that doesn’t seem altogether very reliably written.

Escape- Powers manages to escape from jail while awaiting execution, and even says at the conclusion of his narrative that the thought of escape eases his mind off of his execution. After the end of the story, we learn that Powers does in fact escape. This is very much unlike the other narratives we have read in which the criminals accept their fate and are not only willing, but somewhat excited to die. Powers attempts (and successes) in escaping show his unwillingness to accept his fate.

Intention- Powers states that he overtook a young woman “without any evil intentions,” but after raping her says that he “succeeded in my hellish design” (344). Powers’ narrative seems to be full of not evil intentions, but mere opportunity: “for when I saw the opportunity, the devil, or some other evil spirit, gave me the inclination” (334).

escape- In The Bloody Register the notion of escaping punishment by either running away becomes  commonplace.  The criminal stories relayed give much attention to the criminals ability to wiggle out of trouble somehow.  Their were frequent escapes from jail and numerous desertions of agreed upon lengths of serviceupon a ship or for military endeavors.  The criminals out the time much like todays seem to be willing to do anything and everything within their power to avoid what they are well aware will be the fate of their continued defiances of the law.

women- In relation of the pirate Alexander white’s tale we are exposed to sudden and dastardly change of his actions.  He proclaims his past to be one in which he served his full terms of apprenticeship and occupattions.  But after becoming a well   schooled mariner he set to the seas commanding his own ship and all was well and good until hedecided to marry.  This woman marks the change from a benevolent man to a man who heinously took the life of his brethren.  “…Love began to burn my poor and wounded heart; and being resolved to go through any difficulty that might impede us, I intended to take the life of my fellow-creature…” White also attributes his downfall to the fact that he had married a girl above his class which surely motivated his violent anamoly inlife.

2. dollars– currency is the driving and inticing force behind Brooks killing Mr. Spooner. However, this is directly related to the deep rooted feeling of envy that many of the criminals harboured within themselves. “…Brooks to take his life from him; for which he was to receive one thousand dollars, Mr. Spencer’s watch, buckles, and as much cloth as would make a suit of clothes.”

3. account– a documented series of events. people were so interested in hearing about a person’s crime, and even more so, what their last days were like. like we have discussed in class, these publshed accounts were one of early america’s most popular selling literary genres.

Escape – In this narrative we are given the first instance of a criminal believing he could outsmart the system. Frasier openly talks of his plans to and succese in escaping from both prison and from those who caught him red handed. He was several times able to escape formal punishment through specific arrangements made for his petty thefts. Even after he was sentenced to death he entertained thoughts of his escape which he accomplished in order to rob a number of new stores and people.

education – Frasier openly admits that he is deserving of the punishment of death. He claims that his years of mischief had hardened him and led to the more extreme acts of wickedness that cost him his life. He says that he would’ve been better served used education as a means to get ahead and true to the narratives of the time warns others not to take the same path. “…the appearance of evil, whose beginning tho’ comparatively small, yet often ends in the most gross acts of wickedness.”