Summary Of Mr. Clutter's Murder Stories

Murder is all around us, even when we do not know it. It is the truth and there is nothing us as people can do about it. However, people who are educated on the subject of mirder are far more likely to discover an odd situation and will be able to identify what is truly taking place. When uneducated about this topic you are simply only killing yourself. This is allowing you to be out into more danger because you are unaware of the effects, causes, and suspicions about murder. Aside the fact this book distributes horrific images to children, this novel should be allowed in school curriculum because it provides knowledge relating to topics such as murder that occur in the real world. The descriptive words used to portray how Mr. Clutter laid …show more content…
With no detail involved in a murder story one is not aware of how things happened, who could be a suspect, and the reasoning behind it. In the book it describes Nancy's death by saying, "She'd been shot in the back of the head with a shotgun help maybe two inches away…the wall was covered in blood". The description of her death and how she is seen post mortem helps to emphasize the effect the killer had on their family and how harsh the murders were. It also helps to uncover the killer due to his/her skills, technique, and reasoning/motive. Without these descriptions the readers would be unable to form ideas of suspects and motive. In fact, it would especially leave readers on edge and curious as to what happened. This causes the story to have less effect on the reader. Isn't effecting the reader the whole point of a story? Adding emphasis to a murder within a story gives more insight of how the world operates. Without knowing even the simplest of details within a story everything is different. One basic clue could lead you to unraveling the whole mystery. In the same way a murder story must in fact have details relating to the murder in order for the reader to comprehend the whole story …show more content…
Whether it be descriptive or not. Releasing such images into a child's mind can result in mental complications later in their life. Allowing children to watch, listen, or read stories about murder will damage their imagination and cause them to become more fearful. When giving a child a video game at a young age and expecting them to grow up loving the outdoors is an accurate portrayal of what murderous stories will do to their brain. Exposing children to these harmful stories can create rage, depression, and even curiousness about discovering the difference between what is allowed and what is too far. In the article A Long Time Between Murders the author is exposed to murder at a young age. He says, "—but as it was the only murder I knew, and as it happened only two doors away from where I lived, the killing haunted my imagination". The author describes how the murder that was shown to him damaged the psychological state, his imagination, forever due to horrific images glued into his mind. Despite the fact one learns life lessons and knowledge of what is real in the world from murder stories, it does not compare to the high possibility of psychological problems and defects for the rest of ones