Role: a monster from your independent reading book
Audience: classmates and other "monsters" from the books
Format: letter (300+ words)
Topic: Discuss three topics in the letter. 1. What makes you-as-the-monster monstrous? in other words, in what way are you a monster? 2. What influences, experiences, decisions made you who you are? 3. Looking back, what do you want to say about your monstrousness? Do you want to justify your actions? Do you want to apologize or express regrets? Do you want to give advice? What do you want to say?
Show that you have read and understood the book by weaving details into your letter.
Due Thursday night (January 7) 11:59 pm. Post your monster letter in the comment box below.
In the book in cold blood the by Truman capote the monster kills several people for no apparent reason. What makes this person the monster is just walking into the Cutlins house and killing 4 people in different rooms without a struggle at all. This monster must have known the house of the Cutlins pretty well to be able to do this without struggle. This monster tied all 4 up by hands and knees to either there beds or were the father was murdered the oil burner room. The Cutlins had no reason to be killed. This monster is so cold hearted he shot all of them with shotguns in the head from inches away and also cut Mr. Cutlins throat. This was not the act of one monster there was two men who did this. It is clear what makes me such a monster I mean, killing 4 innocent people with a shotgun in their own home then fleeing from the scene, and leaving no evidence. Looking back at this tragedy I do apologize and want to make it clear it was not right to do. Also I want to say sorry to the cops and every 1 for having to work so hard to find us when we should have just confessed in the first place instead of 5 years later. I believe my monstrousness comes from my background and how I was brought up.
ReplyDeleteclutter family** my word put cutlins for some reason...
ReplyDelete(In Cold Blood as Dick Hickrock and Perry Smith)
ReplyDeleteI am a monster because I have killed innocent people but do not care about it. I wanted to get away with it but I did have a feeling I was going to get caught. I wanted to go find treasure in Mexico so I went there to find it since I figured my life could be very short if I get caught. I was prepared for this so I wanted to go back to where we murdered the Clutter family. That was stupid of me to do since we end up getting caught by the police. I think I am the monstrous monster since I did not care about the consequences I figured were going to happen to me.
I (Perry) am the worst monster of the two. I was influenced by the killings in my family and how I was passed from household to household as a child. This really screwed me up as a person. After seeing my siblings kill themselves that made me want to be a monster. I found a friend that could help me do it so we set off doing our monstrous things.
As a monster I do not want to apologize to anyone since my life was terrible because of other people and I would not justify my actions. This is another reason why I am a monstrous monster. I do not want to give advice to anyone unless you are planning to become a monster like me. If you are just following your first instinct and you will be monstrous.
Pleased to make your acquaintance it is I count Dracula. I am a “monster” as you would so choose to say. Yes I have done wrong things but I must consume blood to survive. I have killed little babies and fed them to my servants. I have fed on blood. And I don’t have a reflection. So what I am eternal and that’s what matters. I don’t see you living forever so you would do well to fear me and stay out of my way. I’m not really sure why I’m the way I am but I cant help but to survive. You people are all sick anyways. You kill other in the name of god but I kill to survive and I’m the so called bad one? Personally I believe that’s a load of BS.
ReplyDeleteIf there is anything to say to that 11th grade class is don’t be stupid. Don’t be sloppy. If you must kill to survive the do it but don’t get caught. And if you insist on bring people over to steal their identity study them more carefully. Keep them there longer and silently kill them in the night while they sleep or they will find out about you and try to escape. People are thief’s too. That John Harker stealing my gold how dare he. And my three lady servants they tried to eat him before I could get what I wanted out of him you know I really regret scaring him and making him cut himself. I believe he knew something was up when I lunged at him and backed off when I grabbed the crucifix. I did enjoy a nice meal over to England though. The captain was real tasty. I loved the look on his face.
Dear Mr. Cook’s C Block English Class,
ReplyDeleteI am the creature that Victor Frankenstein created. I am a monster. I am 8 feet tall, and extremely strong. I became a monster because of how I was brought up. When I looked in the mirror I did not see a monster. When I realized the Victor, my creator, left me to survive on my own, that’s when I went out to see revenge. I killed his brother, his best friend and his new wife Elisabeth all out of spite.
It was not fair for Victor to leave me while I was in only my infant stages. I may have looked like an adult but I was only a child inside. Deep down I know I am not a monster. I was just hurt that people did not accept me. I would watch the people of the village and wish to be like them. I was a monster because I was isolated from everyone. “A blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disown.” From watching the people of the village I learned the importance of family and human relations and I realized I had no one, and that is was Victor’s fault that I was this way.
Looking back at my monstrosities, I know that what I did was wrong. But if you were in my shoes, you would feel the same way. I was abandoned by my creator and shunned from society. I killed all the people close to Victor because I wanted him to feel what I felt, loneliness, emptiness and solitude. Victor also destroyed the one thing that might have made me feel some what whole, the female monster. This angered me. That is why I killed his wife Elizabeth. Thank you students, for taking the time out to ask me about my actions, but you should ask Victor Frankenstein about his actions as well.
Sincerely,
The Creation of Victor Frankenstein
(In Cold Blood Dick Hircock and Perry Smith)
ReplyDelete(Dick)I am a monster because I kill people at random for no reason and do not care about it. I killed the Clutter family for no reason and wanted to get away with it. Perry and I killed the Clutter family very brutally, the whole family was tied to the beds and shot with a shotgun and Mr. Clutter had his throat cut in the boiler room and shot. We went to Mexico to try not to get caught because I figured my life could be very short if get caught. I was not prepared to get caught while Dick and I were fleeing across the country from going to Miami to Las Vegas. I think more of a monster than Perry because I didn't care about the consequences. I did not care about what the consequences were for killing the Clutter family. I confessed to the questioning about the murders of the Clutter family. Right now I am in jail with horrific people. (Perry) I think that I am more of the monstrous person than Dick because of my troubled childhood. I was moved from house to house because my parents were in the rodeo circuit. Two out of my three siblings have died because they killed themselves. That sort of triggered my anger and I had turned that into violence, such as killing people. Neither Dick or I want to apologize about anything, the time it took to find us, the fact that we randomly killed the Clutter family. I myself don't want to apologize because my life was horrible already and because other people have made me the way that I am today. I have no advice to give to anyone unless you plan on being a killer or a monster. I believe that my monstrousness comes from the way that I was brought up.
In Cold Blood
ReplyDeleteMy name is Perry Smith and I’m a monster. I’m a monster because me and my friend Dick Hickock have brutally murdered an innocent family and have taken away their lives. We tied up Bonnie, Nancy and Kenyon Clutter on their beds with duck tape and shot them numerous times and we tied up Herbert Clutter in the basement and we cut his throat. We left no evidence behind but I have always had a bad feeling we were going to get caught. During childhood my mother decided to take me and my brother and sisters away from our father and we were never allowed to see him but I saw my dad no matter what my mom said. I ran away to my dads but took me back to her. I told my dad that she wanted me to find a new home. I got into trouble a lot when I was younger because my mother was drinking and living with a younger man. My dad got a divorce from my mother and got custody of me and my siblings. My dad took me in but my brother and sisters had to be put in homes. One of my sisters is living a happy life with her husband and my other brother and sister committed suicide. Before I was with my dad I have been taken from home to home. I was abused mentally and one of my caretakers tried to drown me. I also spent time in different juvenile detention homes after joining a street gang and becoming involved in crimes. It would be meaningless to apologize for what I did. Even inappropriate. But I do. I apologize. It won’t make up for what I did to the Clutters or their family and friends. I’m monstrous because of the way I grew up and I can’t change anything. I think I should not give advice to anyone except if you want to become what my friend Dick and I became a monster.
(Freddy’s Book by John Gardner)Devil POV
ReplyDeleteHmm, so what makes me a monster? Well hell let’s get the obvious out of the way; I’m the devil, big climax right? See here I’m guessing you’d have thought of the devil as an uncivilized emotionally detached lunatic right? I could be that, I could be a lot of things; I do what makes me happy. So say I advertently compromise an entire European empire, just for the pleasure. You’d suppose I’m a monster for that right? Well you’re wrong. As one-sided as that sounds you have nothing to say that could make me change the way I do business because it is primarily you fools who do all the work. I just give it a little push, the catalyst of a wheel in motion. Hell I base that business off of your own lust for power, your little contemptuous acts to exact revenge on someone who’s more efficient than you in your own line of work. Take my most recent project King Gustav for example; isn’t he the influential type? If it weren’t for me giving him that pep talk he’d have never even touched the crown, or even better, he would be face down in a pool of his own blood by now if I hadn’t stopped those Danes from pursuing him. But the point of the matter is look where he’s at now; stuck on the same menial tasks that Kristian faced as king. The sons and daughters of the people who so proudly fought under Gustav’s orders and died under his orders, are now biting at the only hand that’s trying to pull them out of their hellhole. The people in Dalarna are crying bloody murder to a man who practically speaking, has done nothing wrong. It’s premium entertainment at its finest! So here now I’m faced with a problem; you people, arrogant in your own obliviousness want me, Satan, to lay my cards out on the table and explain why I’ve taken the role of the “monster”. It’s simple, why the hell not? I’m immortal, I’m the inverse, what else is there to do then take part in each and every “original” civilization’s methods towards downfall? So no, I’m not going to apologize to you ruthless people, stop living in this fairytale! There will be no cliché ending to which I make amends for your intolerable ignorance. Centuries and centuries I’ve watched, civilizations spend more time looking for opposing people to bicker at to the point where nothing ever gets resolved. So goodnight humans, enjoy living your frivolous lives, I regret nothing.
Justin Lane
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Mr.Cook
C block
CP1
I am a monster. The reason I am a monster is that I killed innocent people and when my time came to die I still showed no remorse for what I had done to that family. I guess since I killed those people it makes me a murderer which is another reason I am a monster. How I became a monster is no mystery to me. It all started after I got into a car crash when I was 19. After the crash I didn’t have a job so I decided I had to make money for my family somehow so I started writing bad checks. I ended up getting five years in prison for those checks. While I was in prison I met Perry. In prison is where we met Floyd and where we planned our robbery that turned into murder at the Clutter farm house. This was where I had started to become a monster. After I had followed though with going to the Clutter farm house and killed those innocent people was when I truly became the monster I was before I hanged. Even though I am dead now I would like to say sorry to the people I killed and to their relatives for taking their lives. I don’t know what I would have done with myself if someone murdered my family. When I killed those innocent people I was not in my right state of mind and I am very sorry. I just want to say to anyone who is ever planning on committing a crime that it will come back to haunt you and that after your dead it still will. So I advise anyone reading this to never murder or commit a crime as horrible as the crimes I have committed.
In Cold Blood
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Hey, the names Perry I am a monster in the eyes of many people because I’m a killer. Me and my buddy Dick killed four people, the Clutter family. In our killing we were very brutal. After killing the family we robbed the, Mr. Clutter was a very wealth man and kept a large sum of money at home we thought, when I killed the clutters with Perry we tied them to the beds and shot them with a shotgun. Mr. Clutter we cut his throat in the boiler room then shot him. After killing them we fled to Mexico in hopes not to get caught. We were ex cons on parole from the Kansas state penitentiary.. Lots of people as my why I did it, and I reply “because there’s a chance I could have had a large pay day”. Many others ask if I regret it at all and I don’t. I do think that many things about my childhood effected how I am and contributed to me becoming a monster. My mom raise me and my siblings, she was a alcoholic. I had a wife and child who my father abuse as well. I really didn’t care much or feel any regrets about what I had done. I was in it for the money. Back when I was a kid I spent lots of time in different juvies. I don’t feel like I need to justify my actions in any way. And I really don’t have any advice or anything. The only thing im sorry about is that there wasn’t any money in the safe.
Monster is what they call me. They describe me as “Prince Charming” with the face you would only think about and eyes you could get lost in with a smile that would make any one stare. I was the center piece , the main attraction for people to watch in amazement. However only my physical features create this illusion of beauty and charm. If only you could see the portrait of my real side, my soul. This vial creature that is truly a monster or something not of this world. It is a unforgettable face (much like Dorian’s) that murders and forces people to do offal things to themselves when I am not in their life. At one point I was “Prince Charming” who was an innocent, classy, and gullible. All of these characteristics come into play in the transformation of “beauty” to “beast.” It all started when I meet Lord Henry. He was a man that was jealous of my gift and intended of corrupting me. He said that beauty was a gift and should be seen by one person, that I should live life to the fullest without any regrets. He talked about growing old and not being able to do the things I can do now in the future, for like everything beauty fades away. By this corruption I would forever trap my soul into my portrait making it become vial while my real body stays the same forever. I felt like I was breaking away from this hold when I was to be married to Sibyl Vane but soon realized I was in love with her acting and not her. She would kill herself due to a broken heart, this would be the first of many. Basil would be the next victim and once I killed my best friend there was now turning back. Then my close friend Alan Campbell would help destroy Basils body (I black mailed him) would also later kill himself because of the impact I played in his life. With no one to turn to I was forced to become closer to Lord Henry. The “yellow book” he gave me had such an evil grip over however read it. I tried to do good and try to change the portrait back to normal when I seduced this farmer’s daughter but did not bring my life onto hers. Once looking at the portrait again I couldn’t bare the hideous creature that looked back at me. So I took the same knife I used to kill Basil with and stabbed the portrait. The markings and horrid features were forced on to me and the portrait went back to normal. Looking over my life I wish I had never met Lord Henry and if that didn’t happen then I wish I would of let my own beauty corrupt me. Not once did I put myself in the shoes of the others who met me and the influence I left. I had everything, money, looks, charm, women every where, and I also had everything to lose. What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? I should of asked myself that in the beginning.
ReplyDeleteVery good to meet you I am an 8 foot very strong creature that was made by Mr. Victor Frankenstein I believe I’m a monster by the way I was raised, but by the way I look at myself I don’t believe I am one. But when my masters abandon me I knew something had to be done so I went out for my revenge. I did what I thought was the best revenge so I killed his best friend his wife and his brother. He should have left me alone I look like an adult but I have a lot to learn. I know I’m not a monster I want to be normal like the people from the village as I observe the people from the village I learn a lot like what families do and why they are so important but then I had a sudden thought that I’m all alone and that was my masters fault. I know what I had done to victor and his family was very, very wrong but I was isolated from everyone and everything and if you were me you would have done the same. Thanks you
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