Comparative Essay In this essay a comparison will be made between the novels False Impression and The Brethren. Although the authors captivate the audience with compelling quotes and facts about the characters, their sudden turn to misleading statistics sometimes fails to persuade the reader that what they are saying is true about some characters. In the book False Impressions, the author shows how anyone who wants something bad enough will go and get it, even if it means murder. Anna Petrescu is running around the world for her life. He's been working at Fenston Finance for 2 years now and is finally discovering that every couple of months people are slowly being killed. These people are killed because of a Van Gogh painting. Anna now realizes that she is being followed by men who work for Fenston Finance and will soon be taken around the world for a painting that has been in Anna's family forever. This part of the book shows that people, especially those with power, will do anything to get what they want. Bryce Fenston kills innocent people to get what he wants. By comparison, in the book The Brethren, there are three former southern judges, serving together in a federal prison for various bad deeds, which took away their freedom and status in the community. However, inside the prison, they continue to practice law without a license and come up with a blackmail plan that starts to make them some money, until they get a powerful "brand" that could jeopardize everything. aware of how many people they could hurt or even kill. A quote from the book confirms this. “Who cares how many people are killed; it's how much money we get in the end." (p. 129) It is easy to predict how it will unfold. In False Impressions, it was very easy to predict the ending because, in the story, there were only bad guys and good guys. In detective stories the good guys always win because that's what the reader wants to happen. Halfway through the book, I could automatically tell what was going to happen to Anna and Bryce Fenston. Even though Anna had to overcome great struggles and dodge killing, she fought and came out victorious. Bryce, however, was fired,