39 Steps
39 Steps Essay
During a musical event shots are fired. A scared woman asks to go home with Richard. He takes her to his apartment. She is nervous and tells him she is a British spy and that two men are after her and they are waiting outside his building. One of the men is missing his little finger. Richard allows her to stay and turns up dead with a knife in her back by morning. She was holding a map with a certain area circled and mumbled something about the 39 steps. Richard sneaks out of the building by borrowing another man’s jacket. The police think he killed the woman. He boards a train to get away. Then notices the police are aboard looking for him so he quickly gets off and hides. He walks to a farm and says he is looking for a job. The man tells him no so he asks if he can stay one night. The man allows him for a price. He sends him in with his wife.
During the night the man’s wife hears police sirens. She wakes Richard to tell him and then helps him sneak out the back door. She gives him her husband’s coat because it was a darker color than his. He runs through the mountains fleeing the police. He eventually finds the place that he was looking for that was circled on the map. He is welcomed in and meets the man who he thinks would be able to help him. He learns that this is the man who stabbed the spy in his apartment because he is missing his little finger just like she described. The bad man shoots him in the chest. Richard survives the gun shot because the farmers coat had a bible in the chest pocket. Richard tries telling the story to the proper authorities but they didn’t believe him. He escapes from the police and slips into a room where they were holding a political conference and he was put on stage to speak, mistaken for someone else.
Richard gets arrested following the speech. He is handcuffed to a lady and they are placed in a car traveling somewhere that was a two hour drive. They have to take an unexpected detour and run
During a musical event shots are fired. A scared woman asks to go home with Richard. He takes her to his apartment. She is nervous and tells him she is a British spy and that two men are after her and they are waiting outside his building. One of the men is missing his little finger. Richard allows her to stay and turns up dead with a knife in her back by morning. She was holding a map with a certain area circled and mumbled something about the 39 steps. Richard sneaks out of the building by borrowing another man’s jacket. The police think he killed the woman. He boards a train to get away. Then notices the police are aboard looking for him so he quickly gets off and hides. He walks to a farm and says he is looking for a job. The man tells him no so he asks if he can stay one night. The man allows him for a price. He sends him in with his wife.
During the night the man’s wife hears police sirens. She wakes Richard to tell him and then helps him sneak out the back door. She gives him her husband’s coat because it was a darker color than his. He runs through the mountains fleeing the police. He eventually finds the place that he was looking for that was circled on the map. He is welcomed in and meets the man who he thinks would be able to help him. He learns that this is the man who stabbed the spy in his apartment because he is missing his little finger just like she described. The bad man shoots him in the chest. Richard survives the gun shot because the farmers coat had a bible in the chest pocket. Richard tries telling the story to the proper authorities but they didn’t believe him. He escapes from the police and slips into a room where they were holding a political conference and he was put on stage to speak, mistaken for someone else.
Richard gets arrested following the speech. He is handcuffed to a lady and they are placed in a car traveling somewhere that was a two hour drive. They have to take an unexpected detour and run