After months dominated by allegations that US law enforcement is reckless in the use of deadly force, especially when it comes to African-American men, there's a new criminal-justice narrative: US crime rates are falling, often dramatically, even as incarceration rates begin to level off.
But Mr. Kirn has reduced that pain to overly apt poetic justice: a narrative device that turns him aphasic and makes the education process run in reverse.
This is Justice's narrative, which is hard to argue with: West Virginia is experiencing a crisis of spirit.
The six mature novels effectively follow through the critical enterprise launched in Political Justice by their narrative histories of men who are brought to grief by the aristocratic and inegalitarian principles of their societies.
Penelope's story is an attempt at narrative justice to retribute Helen for her erroneously idealised image in the Odyssey as the archetypal female.
The maids also deliver their version of narrative justice on Odysseus and Telemachus, who ordered and carried out their execution, and on Penelope who was complicit in their killing.
Rehnquist's greatest influence was as a model for a new breed of ideological justices, this judicious narrative argues.
Despite the gratifications of rewarded justice that the story delivers, every narrative twist feels calculated to that good-natured end.
What unified the people I spoke with was that they all believed in a heroic storyline: the narrative of justice served, of injustice assuaged through process, of redemption sought in faith and good work.
If the response is visible to the public, it should be accompanied by a narrative of justice, not revenge.
