In the book monsters I feel like something deeper is going on. It’s about how two young children named Jon and Robert who at age ten killed two children they started by taking apart dolls… then drowning cats when they eventually moved on to human beings. This is very scary to think about and at times hard to read.
The text is mostly narration which I feel gives it a creepier tone and it feels like there solving a mystery. Why did they kill the boy? How did they kill the boy? Do they feel the least bit guilty? To me these are the questions that they need answers for in order to prove them guilty. But at this point the boys are staying strong. There not cracking. They seem unusually calm about this. They are treating this whole thing like it’s not a big deal when it really is. Keep in mind that this is a TRUE story. I find it very freighting that these boys don’t seem to realize what they did was wrong.
Usually when I get into trouble and my teachers or parents ask me questions I normally stay calm, but if I was in this situation, I would pee my pants every time I saw a cop. In this case I can’t really relate to any of the characters because I’ve never been in such a complicated situation. Not many people do…unless you’re a criminal.
I’ve been thinking about the children more and more and I wonder how they are going to be trialed. They’re too young to go juvi or jail. Will they be trialed as an adult? I was once looking at the news and they was a kid who shot his mother with a pistol and it took weeks to decide if he should be trialed as an adult or a child. A child doesn’t know what's right from wrong yet so they couldn’t tell if it was intentional or not…but it was still firsthand murder. And he did have motivation. They later did trial him as an adult. Sometimes kids don’t even get trialed. They might get him a physiatrist and 5 day a week therapy but that’s about it. This also takes place in the 80s and the laws were probably different back then.
Overall I think this is a very scary story and I will continue reading cause I cant wait to find out what happens next.
It does sound scary and interesting. I should read this book. It reminds me of all the ghost stories I have read and heard. There is one about a doll who takes a finger from each person in a household, and a bunch of others stories. I have to say I have been hearing ghost stories since I was eight or seven. I found them interesting and, at one point last year, I even tried to write one.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, what is even scarier is that, as you just said, this is a true story. Are kids really growing up like this?