English 48b
January 25, 2008
Professor Lankford
Quote:
You fetch them to the cave, and you’ve always as polite as pie to them; and by- and- by they fall in love with you and never want to go home any more.
Summary:
Tom gave this statement when he was in the meeting with the other members in his gang.
Response:
Tom was such an interesting boy that he gave a lot of stupid instructions to the other members. For example, the members mustn’t eat and sleep until they have killed their targets and they shouldn’t tell the secret to anyone, otherwise, their parents would be killed. I realized that these teenagers always wanted to do something different. Indeed, I quite agree with one thing which Tom suggested. Tom said that the members had to bring the women to the cave since the women would fell in love with them. In reality, there are always cases like what Tom suggested. Frankly, there are many kidnapping cases in my country. The criminals locked the women in the room and raped them everyday. The women initially would feel very afraid and helpless. However, once they found out that they had little hope to escape. They would start to fall in love with the men since the men always took care of them. Though it was quite ridiculous, it was extremely true. It was a kind of psychological disease.
After reading this part of the story, I remember that I also did something bad with some friends when I was small. I always planned something evil with my friends. We made jokes to the teachers and shot the soccer at the window. However, we really didn’t think about bringing a girl to a cave and making her to fall in love with us. If I was able to read this book at that time, I would also come up with this evil thing.
2 comments:
20/20 Gee, I guess we're pretty lucky you didn't read this book back then!
BTW this journal wanders a little too far from a discussion of Twain's work -- it's more about your personal thoughts on the psychology of kidnap victims etc. In future try not to wander quite so far...
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