Friday, January 22, 2010

Why are killers always villianized

Though the corse of reading one begins to see that that the villain of these stories is always kind of a weird guy thats only real purpose is to cause ruckus in the world. There is a flaw with this logic though, isn't the murder just playing his crucial role. He is just there to create the story, with out him no critical event would happen, meaning there would really be no story. Instead of instantly blaming seducer shouldn't we take into account the one being seduced. The common theme in these stories is that some kind of weird guy picks up an innocent girl and then has his way with them. A crucial fact that we always miss is that the girls are willing picked up. There is never a struggle, the girls happily go with these murders. The funniest part about it is that none the murders seem to be charismatic or even good looking. These girls are often looking for trouble, and trouble just happens to find them. There may be a better case to say that the innocent girls are the villains, not there murdering counterpart.
The girls are the ones that hurt their families, not the murders. This is shown by Alleen Rowe. Alleen had a perfectly fine life, she was smart, pretty, and had a good mom. This was obviously not good enough for her though. Instead of being contempt with life, she had to push the limits, she hung out with kids that she obviously shouldn't have been around. She was hanging out with 19 year old boys when she was only 15. Its pretty obvious what type of person a 19 year old hanging out with a 15 year old is. Really nothing good can ever come out pf this type of situation. In the end Alleen was dead and really it was her own fault. Instead of waiting for herself to grow up, she tried to jump the gun and act more mature then she really was. She ended up dying because of this. Alleens death hurt her mother but was it really the serial killers fault? There are always going to be killers in the world, thats just a fact of life, so isn't it our job to not get stuck in a situation where someone will potentially hurt us? In the end these girls where looking for trouble and that is just what they found. So maybe it is more important to look at the flaws of the innocent girls then those of the serial killers.


1 comment:

  1. I think to catagorize the innocent girls as the villains seems to go a little far.. for the story is not their ENTIRE fault... but i do see where your coming from. If not for their not-so-innocent ways, bad things may not have happened to them, such as attract the attention of sex maniacs and other such evils.

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