Woo's Pain In The Killer

The physical pain is only one aspect of the impact it has on these victims. The trauma also causes emotional

    In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, Sherman Alexie shows us that the worst pain isn’t physical, it’s mental, as shown in the scene when Eugene’s best friend Bobby hangs himself to mourn his death (171), when Penelope reveals her bulimia/anorexia (107), when Arnold and Rowdy achieve their revenge on the three brothers by shearing and shaving their hair (22), when he reveals his seizures and his feelings about them (3), when he mourns Oscar’s death (11), and when his grandmother is killed (158).

The feeling of pain has often been referred to as a controversial one, as one of the sensations that is felt by the body. Recently, discussions about the subject of pain have been focused on the difficulty encountered in trying to establish a definition for it. Because pain has no one definition, expressing it becomes quite elusive for the sufferer, which then leads to the difficulty in the understanding of pain by an outsider. Elaine Scarry makes a strong argument that “to have pain is to have certainty” whereas, “to hear about pain is to have doubt,” (Scarry, 13) and with this she emphasizes that pain is almost impossible to deduce by an outsider because all they experience is “doubt.” Although Scarry’s argument is valid, Joanna Bourke makes a contrasting argument that, “indeed, hearing about or witnessing another person’s pain could actually destroy the onlooker,” (Bourke, 46) which could be interpreted to mean that one’s pain could in fact be shared by others as opposed to Scarry’s argument. Therefore, the transferability of pain in American Sniper and Schindler’s List stems from the acknowledgement of the pain of the sufferer through the use of framing and close up shots of the onlooker, and it is that acknowledgement that makes for the possibility of the sharing of pain in regards to the situations of war in the movies.

You are sitting in your living room at home watching the nightly news. The lead story for the night is about a family of four that were murdered. After seeing and hearing about something like that we often ask ourselves, What could possess a person enough to kill another human being? What is it that drives a person to kill? Will we ever know? Many authors use this unique mentality in short stories. They write about what the killer thinks and how he/she acts on his/her thoughts. One of these stories is "A Good Man Is Hard To Find", by Flannery O'Connor. In this story O'Connor's victim, The Misfit, is an escaped convict. He was in the Federal Penitentiary for killing his father. Throughout the story O'Connor builds up this killers

Muller writes, “killing is often misinterpreted in film,” due to movies portraying justified homicide easily. In actuality, even the death of one person is detrimental to one’s emotions. Additionally, the distance between enemies and

Serial killers’ unavailability of remorse or guilt is linked with their “lack of a conscience that gives them the remarkable ability to rationalize their behavior and to shrug off personal responsibility for actions that cause shock and disappointment to family, friends, or associates” (42). Due to the absence of that little voice present in most people's minds, serial killers are like robots in view of the fact that they are unemotional and indifferent about the lives of others. They can, and do, ruthlessly slay people just as easily and with no feeling as I can crunch an irritating bug beneath my shoe. Nevertheless, we must one day prevail in discovering a way to tame these so far untransformable, merciless psychopaths so society can better function without the disruption of occasional unchecked

Tommy entered the house, it was quiet, and he went to the kitchen to get a snack. Tommy dropped his plate causing a loud clattering noise, waking his mother. Tommy’s mom was furious, walked around the corner and started beating Tommy for waking her. As she was beating him a man came around the corner to stop her. It was Tommy’s dad. In a blind rage, Tommy’s mom grabbed the gun from the kitchen drawer; the one she used to threaten Tommy for all his wrong doings and shot Tommy’s father. Tommy’s experiences of regular, yet unpredictable beatings ending with a traumatic death experience forever changed Tommy’s life. After a traumatic experience, a chemical imbalance in the brain occurs; leaving this untreated can cause someone to become a serial killer. Traumatic life experiences, abuse, and an inability to have healthy coping strategies can lead to a chemical imbalance in the brain. Abuse, trauma, and poor coping skills combined can lead to the creation of a killer. Criminologists have identified several common life experiences that convicted serial killer have had in common. One identified experience shared by convicted serial killers is the witnessing a murder or death. Another is experiencing abuse from a young age. The kind of is not as significant a factor, but many serial killers reported higher incidences of sexual and emotional abuse. Abuse combined with a significant traumatic experience has been determined to cause a chemical imbalance in the brain. Another

Dire motives, understandable feelings, and most importantly, uncanny, insurmountable genius must saturate the criminal character. Otherwise, the readers lose interest in catching the perpetrator and believe them too easy a quarry for the protagonist. An author should never forget to form the criminal from deep evil, as well as giving the criminal pitiable qualities for the more sensitive readers to sympathize. Several examples of strong criminal

Sucker For Pain reflects this whole book, Unwind, in general. Now, I chose this book because it talks about, literally, being a sucker for pain and how to deal with the emotions, deep down that are felt. Not only that but also, this song tells you how society views you as, while also trying to survive. The three alleged unwinds, Connor, Risa, and Lev, are now at the age where they are to be or actually chosen to be unwound. Basically, they don’t have a choice, to society and the government, but to themselves, it’s either accept the truth or run away. Which is why the lyrics, “Pressure from the man got us all in rebellion, We gon' go to war, yeah, without failure”, fits with the situation the 3 are going through. It means, as the 3 are pressured

“Freud’s structural theory of personality, places great emphasis on the role of unconscious psychological conflicts in shaping behavior and personality” (Boundless). This statements explains the correlation between the abandonment and hatred placed towards the creature by all and his urge to place the same grief onto his maker. Now the murderer has begun outwardly expressing his primitive feelings of revenge and anger. He was once “nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion. But now crime has degraded” him “beneath the meanest animal” (Shelley

This supports the fact that he is a psychopath, because although he likes the old man he suffocates the man with his own mattress, and kills him with very little remorse or guilt.

writer’s description of pain in his context is powerful and drives the point behind his main thesis.

They often store many of the disappointments, grievances and frustrations inside until one incident makes them explode with violent rage. After carrying a burden of the many elements of anger and sadness that keep inside, he or she reacts like a bomb setting out for the people the murderer blames for his burden. Although many of these murderers kill out of hate and anger, many kill out of love and passion. Most people who have been rejected by a lover or spurred by a spouse and have been heartbroken and humiliation eventually get on with life. For a few, however the injured lover’s emotion turns inside out and takes on lethal proportions. The price expected for betrayal is death, in some cases from faithless partners, in others from an unsurprising rival. However the victim, a crime of passion is a reverse act of devotion, a murderous testament to the killer’s depth of feeling that is as powerful as any declaration of love. Crimes of passion are a perfect example of insecurity. These killers who commit these crimes seem to turn against their lover because they feel like their lover hurt them intentionally. The killer does not understand how someone they cared about so much could turn on them. This passion becomes frustration and hate takes over, the killer feels that killing the perpetrator will bring him ease the pain. However, murders of passion, along with any

In the story, “The Killers,” Freud’s three personality structures are reflected as Al and Max threaten the life of Ole Andreson. ID, for instance, seems to be controlling the killers’ desires for immediate gratification at the restaurant as they demand quick service. On another note, the superego drives the killers to murder Andreson because of an obligation, while Andreson doesn’t fight his eventual death because of rationalizations by his ego. In all, the behaviors of these characters proves that the way people act and react to certain situations is very complex in which both the unconscious and conscious minds underlie behavior.

How does one show his or her pain? Jonathan’s agony from the death of his father is