Find a source related to the monster you are choosing to write your causal analysis on. This will be a good source to begin understanding the causes or effects of your monster.
- Summarize the text keeping causality in mind.
- What reasons are they giving for the monster?
Requirements: About 250 words, summary and response to the article/post/news/etc; aka text.
Comment below with a link to the text and your summary and response.
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https://www.biography.com/news/ted-bundy-childhood
SUMMARY: This text describes the childhood of Ted Bundy (the monster I will be writing about). The text describes the fact that Ted Bundy told numerous people he had an uneventful childhood, yet if you look closer at his childhood it reveals trauma and disturbing behavior that started to develop within himself. His grandfather had a horrible temper and was extremely aggressive, so many speculate that Bundy could have been abused by his grandfather. When Bundy was a toddler, he would often be caught leaving knives near his Aunt while she was sleeping. However, the Aunt seemed to be the only one who thought the behavior was strange. When his mother met his stepfather (while Bundy was a child) , Bundy was upset about the new relationship and would act out. He would throw tantrums while he was in public with his family, including wetting his pants to try and embarrass his family. Furthermore, throughout his years in school Bundy had no friends. He was socially awkward and did not fit in with anybody.
REASONS: The reasons they are giving for Ted Bundy becoming a monster are similar to what I mentioned in the summary. The possible abuse he could have suffered at the hands of his grandfather, his anger in regards to getting a step-father, and his inability to fit in with anyone at his school were all said to have played a role in making Ted Bundy a monster. All these things put together created something dark and angry within Bundy, driving him to murder. Maybe Bundy felt like an outcast, which was out of his control, so to gain control back he chose to hurt people.
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This FBI file gives information on how Al Capone was first introduced in the crime world and how he grew. Further in the article it gives us information on crimes, how he was involved as well as all the times he was convicted and what happened during those charges. Of these crimes it discusses one in specific called the valentine massacre which was a popular Al Capone assination during a very violent era in chicago. It also talks about the influence of the mob and how they had connections to many organizations including labor unions. Finally it goes over how Al capone came to his death in 1947 and what the ultimate cause was.
One of the main reasons the article gives for Capone becoming a monster was the prohibition act which made it illegal to sell, purchase and make alcohol. During this time it was said that Capones higher up told that it was going to be a booming business so he took advantage. Another reason stated that he was a monster because he was trying to get racketeering rights and in the process a lot of people died. As a result of rising to power and filling the shoes of his past superiors he probably felt the pressure to not only let them down but to establish his own power.
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/al-capone
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Pablo Escobar is one of the most known drug dealers in history. He was living in Colombia for most of his time and was known for selling cocaine; not only to his country, yet to other individuals throughout the U.S. Pablo Escobar was infatuated with becoming wealthy, feared, and respected. With the goals that he wanted to achieve, he then started to work toward those goals. With this in mind, He has his goals, which is what lead him to start his life of crime. He started to sell drugs because he was making the fast money which was bringing in a lot of income that he wanted and never had while growing up. While he was selling drugs, he wanted to continue to prestige with his goals and success. He started to make a life with violent crimes; whenever no one would obey him or did the job that they were given, the individuals who disappointed him would be executed. Escobar would become furious because someone would fail, due to his goal not being achieved, he would then become violent because it was not giving the outcome that he would seek. Violence was needed for fear, Pablo Escobar was aware that if he used violence, the people would not fail and continue to give him respect out of fear of the consequence. With all of this in mind, ambition and goals would cause expectations; whenever the expectations were not met, it would cause disappointment which would then lead to death. However, when using this violence, it gave him respect because of the fear which then made his goals become achieved; Everything was caused because of goals and the effect was becoming successful with his disciplinary system.
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https://allthatsinteresting.com/charles-manson-facts
1. According to this article, Manson grew up in an unusual family situation as his mom drank a lot and committed petty crimes; even getting arrested with his uncle for attempting to rob a shop. Manson spent his childhood living with his aunt. He committed his first crime at the age of 12 and would go in and out of jail for petty crimes, including attempting to pimp out his girlfriend at the time. He committed a federal assault by age 17 and was sent to prison for seven years. In prison he learned how to play the guitar and became obsessed with music. When he came out of prison he chased his dream of playing music full heartedly, but ultimately didn’t succeed to the degree he wished. Starting a group of young girls who became infatuated with him, he began to form the Manson family. He would preach to them about all kinds of things,including a race war he proclaimed was coming; of which he named Helter Skelter, after the famous Beatles song. One night Manson declared Helter Skelter had begun and sent his followers to kill a group of people residing in a mansion Terry Melcher, a record producer that had turned down Manson, previously lived in. The mansion members ended up brutally killing five individuals, including Sharon Tate – a famous upcoming actress. The group then committed another set of murders the following night. Eventually the murders were tied back to Manson and he, along with some of his followers, were sentenced to prison.
2. The reasons given include a rough childhood, with a criminal neglectful mother, a biological father that was never in his life, and a step father that got in divorce with his mother when Manson was at a young age. Another reason is his continual petty thefts that kept him going in and out of jail. The main reasons largely stem from Manson’s frustrations with his music career and his conviction in his Helter Skelter preachings; although there is much debate over how much Manson actually believed in Helter Skelter.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/eva-kor-survivor-of-nazi-medical-experiments-at-auschwitz-dies-at-85/2019/07/12/96118c2e-a35a-11e9-b732-41a79c2551bf_story.html
I chose this article because it talked about one of the survivors of Doctor Josef Mengele’s experiments on twins. These experiments killed most of the 1,500 twins, and less than two hundred survived by the end of the war. One survivor, Eva Mozes Kor, has told her story to many. The article goes over her early life, and how when she was 10 she arrived at the selection platform of the Auschwitz Birkenau extermination camp with her twin sister Miriam. There, she was chosen to be tested by Mengele, who had an obssession with twins because of his eugenetics research.
Eva remembers how the Nazis would test horrible things on her, like seeing how much blood they could remove from one arm. They would inject her with many illnesses, which would bring on terrible fevers and other side effects.
EFFECTS of Dr Mengele’s research: One effect would be that many innocent children were killed during his time as leading medical person at Auschwitz, and another would be that the doctor escaped to South America and never received the proper prosecution or trial for his actions. It is said that he continued his experiments on other people in rural parts of Argentina. He began living with a fellow Nazi party member, Gerhard, and later assumed Gerhard’s identity. He died in 1979, but his death was confirmed in 1985. His atrocities were inhumane, and so many awful effects came from them.
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https://www.looper.com/13587/joker-became-sick-twisted/
Article “How the Joker Became so Sick and Twisted”, written by Chris Sims, explains the possible causes that made the Joker become such a “Sick and Twisted” villain over the years. As Batman did not arrive fully formed, the Joker too was not born “The Joker”, just another man. This article goes over how, and what made the Joker take the twisted heinous path he chose, and what made him such an effective character in the Batman series. The joker has been around since the earliest Batman comic books, and his character has evolved throughout time, giving him a more deviant role, further developing a more important role in the series. The Joker was intended to die in his first few run-ins with Batman, but the creators had decided that the character had the potential to play a larger role in the narrative. Sims explains the importance of the Joker, and why every time he showed up after escaping Batman and Robin, “the consequences had to keep getting direr, more destructive, more of an assault on the very concepts that Batman was built on.”
The article gave a lot of history on the Joker, and why he grew more and more evil throughout the comics of Batman. Sims gave a lot of information on the creation of the overall Batman narrative, and the importance of the role the Joker played as well as how the character grew throughout the series. Perhaps not the best article I chose in explaining how the Joker became so evil. Though I think reviewing the article and understanding the Jokers role in the series is essential.
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https://allthatsinteresting.com/richard-ramirez-night-stalker
I am choosing to write on Richard Ramirez, also known as the night stalker. According to an article titled “the twisted tale of Richard Ramirez” written by Katie Serena, states, Richard was subject to abuse at a young age seeking refuge with a cousin who eventually guided Richard to his famously known actions. As his cousin was into sadistic acts Richard found his actions fitting to his own false image; from a scared abused boy to a serial killer he sought power where it had not been found before. Richard Ramirez is one of the reasons we lock our doors and windows at night. With his break ins being that of looting, rape, torture and murder he forever etched his presence among society. if it hadn’t been for the police fingerprint data base beginning we would never have caught the night stalker and we would still hold fear in our hearts of the night stalker preparing to take our lives.
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harold-Shipman
I chose this article on Harold Shipman AKA Dr. Death. I’m thinking about using Shipman as the monster in my casual analysis. He was considered to be a monster because he killed patients. Approximately 250 of them throughout his life. Shipman was interested in medicine at an early age, and his earliest victims were killed around 1975. He was eventually caught and sentenced to life in prison in 2000. After a few years in prison he eventually committed suicide in 2004. What lead to Shipman killing these people? It could of been because he witnessed his mom deal with medical issues at a young age These issues included her having to use morphine because of her lung cancer. There are also theories that he killed because he was helping people who were suffering by euthanizing them. Which doesn’t make much since because many of his patients that were killed were reported as healthy. In other cases people think he did this because he liked having the power over life and death. He killed people by injecting them with a lethal dose of painkiller diamorphine. He would then would sign their death certificate by saying that the patient died of natural causes.
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https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/pedro-alonso-lopez
Pedro Alonzo Lopez was a young boy that suffered a lot during his childhood. He was raped multiple times, he wasn’t loved by his mother. Born in Colombia in 1948 in Santa Isabel, having a mom as a prostitute is not every kid ideal up bringing as a child, it was very disturbing for him to witness the things his mom was doing. After his mom caught him fondling his younger sister when he was eight years old, who can blame him after witnessing his mom doing sexual acts might have made him think it was okay to do it with his sister. His mom kicked him out, he began his journey to Bogota, where a man picked him up and raped him in a deserted house. Soon after an American family took him in, when he was twelve years old and placed him in an orphan school. Pedro was enrolled there for two years but ran away because he claimed a male teacher molested him. As you can see there can be so many things that could have led him to kill 300 plus people. Being rape, feeling abandon and alone could make someone mentally ill. Can Traumatic events make you into a serial killer? What could have happened to Pedro Lopez differently if he didn’t see his mom being a prostitute or being rape. Is it her fault that she kicked him out at such a young age? Was he already a murder when he was born or was he created with hate that led him to do this
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https://www.wikizero.com/en/Dennis_Rader
In this article, it talks about the life of Dennis Rader. It gives a brief background of his life and goes in detail about his killings and how he taunts the police working on the case. Rader started out by binding up animals, torturing them and then killing them. This led out to killing his female victims continuing this technique and then mailed letters to the news station about his killings. Signing them BTK (binding them, torture them, and kill them). For 3 decades Rader got away with it until he came out and started killing again and got cocky and was later arrested.
The reason why he was a monster was about his life background. When he was a kid his parents worked long hours and this frustrated him because he didnt have any attention growing up but mainly resenting his mother for it. Another reason was that he started to have these sadistic sexual fantasies about torturing and killing helpless women. He then later developed zoo-sadism which he did BTK with small animals. He then later talked about how he would wear womens clothing and have sexual actions about being binded up. These are the main points that are pointed out in the article
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The monster that I chose is a serial killer named John Wayne Casey. His first kill was a sixteen-year-old named Timothy McCoy on January 2, 1972. This is what started him and 32 others would get murdered after timothy. It gave him the best orgasm and the ultimate thrill and would lead him for the rest of his life. Everyone that met him said he was a likable man and was always trying to help people out. he owned three KFC franchises and started his own construction business. His father beat him from the age of four and was molested by a family member at the age of seven. He was homosexual but in the fifties, it was not accepted. He had a bad heart condition and the doctors were able to fix it. All of this drove him to become a killer but he was also able to function in the society that drove him to be so dangerous. He got married but she started to do prostitution and pornography. All of these things drove him to be the monster that he was meant to be.
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shadow-boxing/201208/imagining-ted-bundy%3famp
The article I chose talks about Dr. Al Carlisle Who evaluated Ted Bundy after his first arrest in 1975. The psychologist spent approximately 20 hours with Ted Bundy assessing him. The psychologist took notes from other people who knew Bundy very well and really wanted to get ideas of how ted was to other people and how others impressions of him. So the questions that were being asked to Ted were specifically made for him. The doctor believed that there were many factors that influenced Ted’s development. Although Ted blamed in addiction to pornography the reason why he committed those acts, Dr. Carlisle believes there were deeper explanations. some of the reasons that the article is giving is that there were memories and things that he was neglecting from thinking about, there might of been some type of traumatic event that he suffered as a child, and the ability to murder and function as a very normal person is developed through an evolution of three processes.
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https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/07/what-if-anakin-skywalker-never-turned-to-the-dark-side.html
This article absolutely explores the “What If’s” concerning what could have happened had Anakin not left the Council Chamber like he was told to, and not interrupted Windu killing Palpatine. The final result ends up being that no matter what possible actions, and path take place that it is inevitable that Anakin, and or Luke & Leia end up coming to the Dark Side. Some of the pivoting key points in the article are founded on the fact that Anakin has is a reckless cowboy and through the scenarios ends up in the same position being confronted by the Emperors crafty lies. Also no matter what happens Anakin lacks the discipline to be a strong independent well balanced Jedi and is dependent on a master. He inevitably finds this in the dark side today, or in a later confrontation, and even if he does not, his children are then left with a strong pull, or lack of Jedi training and end up filling Anakin’s destined position. It’s like a curse, or at least that is the way that the author sees it. It’s like check mate in 2 moves, no matter what moves are made. The cause is fate, is destiny, and the authors explanation of different choices all lead to the same effect.
The key reason given for the monster is that it is destiny or prophesy that Anakin must become Darth Vader. I find it very interesting to Critically analyze Darth Vader especially after reading this article because it seems he had no choice. The author paints the picture that if he changes his path, the universe still brings him to the prophesy. The author even includes that due to Anakin’s character, even if he dies, then his children will fulfill his prophesy. I think that Darth Vader was bound to become a monster, even if he tried to avoid it. I think that many people may be able to relate to this where they believe that no matter their choices, they still end up in the same place. I think that many people may look back on their lives and be able to relate to Darth Vader, Darth Being the monster, the people feeling like they were a victim of their destiny, prophesy.
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https://www.dcuniverse.com/encyclopedia/poison-ivy/
The monster I am choosing to analyze is Poison Ivy, one of Batman’s iconic villains. She is considered a deadly force to be reckoned with. However, “the beautiful villainess is not a criminal in the traditional sense, but an Eco terrorist determined to push mankind out of the way; moreover, […] Ivy has also proven herself compassionate time and time again, especially toward other women who have been victimize” (Poison Ivy). Pamela Lillian Isley had been traumatized by her father’s abusive relationship. When she was a child, her mother was constantly beaten and eventually killed by her father. Pamela’s mother was buried in her own backyard. As she grew older, Pamela grew resentful of her father. Later as a student, she used her knowledge as a chemist to take vengeance on her father. One thing that has always been constant about this character is her desire to protect mother earth from mankind. She will do anything to preserve wildlife, especially the plants that have been taken for granted by humans.
As Poison Ivy, her reason for becoming a monster has to do with the negligence of mother earth. She has an undying passion to save the earth. With the help of her colleague’s betrayal, she was doused with chemicals giving her total control over plants. Also, due to her father’s abusiveness, she is very compassionate towards other women. Poison Ivy is a tragic antihero, many times misunderstood. All she wants to do is for plants to thrive in a world ruled by greedy corporations.
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Where exactly “Nessie” the Loch Ness Monster came from is controversial. An article titled “The Legend of Loch Ness” by Stephen Lyons, published by NOVA on PBS.com in 1999, the earliest record of Nessie was a carved picture done by settlers in Scotland. As all the other carved pictures of animals have been proved to have been in existence, one may wonder why only one animal would have been falsified. Maybe someone carved a picture of something they mistakenly saw in bad lighting of another animal from a weird angle. Later in A.D. 565, Columbus was said to have seen the animal about to attack a man swimming in the lake when he saved the man by shooing the monster away. This story, in conjunction with the almost yearly sitings of Nessie, keeps the idea relevant. Throughout the many different Nessie tales, the story remains similar within the details; a humongous monster, with large flippers, could be magical and or evil and possibly a murderer of small children. Though today Nessie is still thought of as real by some, the initial world involvement of people wanting to prove the monster as real or capture it has dwindled. One of the bases for so many high profile people believing in Nessie was due to a photo of the monster published by a well known and trusted member of the community passing the photo off as one he took of the monster. A death bed confession many years later proved the photo to be a fake with the real photographer of the photo coming forward to say he, in fact, staged the photo and convinced the man it was real and to take credit for the photo and make it known. This confession made some even more weary wondering if the technology of the time could have really faked the monster that well, if at all. Even through all the twists and turns in the Nessie story, one man feels so passionately he told the written at NOVA, he would stake his life on the existence of this creature. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/legend-loch-ness/
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In Junji Ito’s Tomie, it seems as though each of the stories has little to no connection to each other, there are hardly any recurring characters besides Tomie herself, and there is no concrete plot the short stories seem to be following. However, in this video, the speaker concludes that Junji Ito has skillfully developed Tomie’s character in a series of arcs, displaying how she has become more twisted. At the beginning of the story, she is just an average high school girl. It is evident from her classmates that she has seemed relatively normal throughout her life up until she was killed. Even Tomie can’t make sense of the changes she’s experiencing in her body. It is only until she is killed countless times that she learns to take advantage of her new powers. In a desperate attempt to cling to whatever humanity she has left, Tomie instead becomes more monstrous as she continues to bring misfortune to whoever has the displeasure of crossing her path.
The constant rinse and repeat cycle of, use her charm to attain riches and power, seduce men, get killed by said men, and regenerate has left nothing but a hollow shell of what she used to be. While initially, she was biologically transformed into a monster, Tomie essentially severed her own ties with humanity as she continues to exploit her skills to attain a sliver of something that she will never be able to get back. She is a walking husk of a human being, already half-dead on her feet even by the time she is able to regenerate.
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In season four, in the series called Supernatural their is an episode specifically related to the Siren monster. The plot of the series is two brothers born in to a monster hunter family. They travel across America in search of answers to their past. In this episode specially men are being compelled to kill because the site is casting a love spell on me to prove their devotion to the siren. The only way to destroy the siren is with the poisonous venom she uses to conduct her love spell.
The reasons they give for the monster being is Greek mythology. The siren has different origin stories but in the particularly episodes they mentions a brief discussion on Greek mythology.
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The monster that I will be analyzing will be on Charles Cullen a former nurse who killed many people, and the article I’ll be using goes in depth of who he was, his early childhood, his victims, and the impact of those deaths and how they were handled are still in effect today. First it goes over his early childhood, Charles Cullen was born in West, Orange, New Jersey and had a family of eight siblings. Charles described his early life as very miserable, and a lot of death he experienced the loss of his father at a young age and his mother at age seventeen, although his father died when he was young Charles was a victim of rape from his father when he was young and this traumatic mixed with all the death in his life could be the reason he led to killing so many people. Charles not only recalling a miserable childhood but when interviewed Charles said he tried to take his life at the age of nine with a chemical set his mom got him over this span of his life Charles tried to take his own life twenty times. Charles Cullen had an estimate of 29-45 deaths on his hand by killing his victims with drugs to make it look like an accident. The effect it still has today is that nurses can be seen as monsters when they are to be heroes, which they are however they just had one monster who became a nurse and you used being a nurse to kill people instead of helping them
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https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/captured-monster-miramichi/
The source that I decided to write about for this week’s Journal response is a podcast episode. Recently I have been listening to a podcast called crime junkie which talks about cases ranging from murders to missing people. This specific episode was titled Captured: The Monster of Miramichi. The host of this podcast Pride themselves on being storytellers but neither actually work in the criminal justice system. In the episode they start their story in 1986 in the perspective of 66 year old John Glendenning and his 61 year old wife Mary who would both be Legere’s first murders. Legere went to prison for second-degree murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. In prison he would display extreme Jekyll and Hyde personality and would eventually go as far as to pour urine into his ear to cause infection and while in transit to see a doctor for this he managed to escape. He then went on a killing spree and would commit horrible crimes while evading the police. This caused so much fear in the community that lives year committed these crimes in that it caused a significant spike for things such as home security and people in these communities would even call these security lights “Legere lights”. He was recaptured in November of 1989 and when he was arrested it was said people of Miramichi Community came from inside their homes and even cried and held each other.
In this specific Source it does not give a reason for Allan legere actions but it does give reason for the monster of Miramichi that he would become. After lives years escape from prison legere did not stop or go into hiding he continued his reign of terror upon the rural town of Miramichi. His evasion of the police would be cause for even more fear and it was that fear. in the hearts of the people of Miramichi that would be what made Adam Legere a true monster.
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https://vocal.media/criminal/the-milwaukee-monster-jeffrey-dahmer
This article talks about the one of the famous monster Jeffrey Dahmer.
“I trained myself to view people as objects of pleasure instead of [as] people.” – Jeffrey Dahmer.
Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the most infamous names we’ll ever hear as his name has been used in film, books and everywhere online. He was an American serial killer (the monster i am going to write about) who took the lives of 17 males between 1978 and 1991. Over the course of more than 13 years, Dahmer sought out men, mostly African American, at gay bars, malls and bus stops, lured them home with promises of money or sex, and gave them alcohol laced with drugs before strangling them to death. He would then engage in sex acts with the corpses before dismembering them and disposing of them, often keeping their skulls or genitals as souvenirs. He frequently took photos of his victims at various stages of the murder process, so he could recollect each act afterward and relive the experience.
One term that is often heard to describe a serial killer is the word “monster”. You can be certain that nearly everyone was referring to Dahmer as a monster when they found out about the things he did. In Ed Baumann’s book Step Into My Parlor (1991), an entire analysis of the murders and Dahmer himself, Baumann describes him as “Satan with blond hair, a friendly face and a pleasing voice”. This idea of him as a monster or Satan in disguise ties into the effects this news portrayal had on children and their parents. Baumann presents the advice of three different psychologists on what parents should do to keep their children from becoming terrified of the monster that was Jeffrey Dahmer. Some of this advice included discussing the children’s fears, reassuring them that they are safe, and turning off the television whenever the news came on and keeping newspapers out of sight. They even advised us to use nightlights and avoid talking to strangers. The murders specifically had quite an impact on both the African American and gay communities of the Milwaukee area. For the African American community, the murders were an ugly reminder of how racially segregated a city Milwaukee is. Many of Dahmer’s victims happened to be African American.
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The monster I’m thinking about analyzing will potentially be on Gary Ridgway, better known as the green river killer. He was a simple regular man that had several unsuccessful relationships and once served his country and was an excellent painter and held a job for 30 years painting trucks and also was a man of the lord. Turns out he had some unsavory secrets, that he kept from everyone around him. His secret occupation was MURDER! The green river killer went on a 20-year killing spree, making him one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S history. He preyed on young female runaways and prostitutes. In this article, we read about his past relationships and sheds some light on his childhood and his obsession with insatiable sex. A lot of the article has in-depth details about his past marriages and his family and also we get some insight from detectives and some who specializes in murders and write books about people with personality issues and secret obsessions. At a young age, Gary Ridgway led a young boy into the woods and stabbed him the boy survived and he also had an obsession over his mother who didn’t treat her sons very well. BUT the article really focuses on his relationship and his secret life it’s important because it tells a lot about his insecurities and his personality disorder.
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