Holly and Jessica: 'True crime'

Holly and Jessica- ‘True Crime’

True Crime takes you into the story of a brutal crime by Ian Huntley, the caretaker who killed two ten year old girls. A crime that involves a crude, brutal and gruesome murder of two total innocent young girls by a man with a history of hostility towards women. Holly and Jessica went out to the high street for sweets in their Manchester shirts one Sunday evening after a family barbeque and were never seen alive by anyone else except Ian Huntley. He lured the girls back to his home by telling them that their school teacher, Maxine Carr, was there waiting for them. Knowing that their favourite teacher was there, the girls were trapped by Huntley’s lie and followed him to their deaths. All evidence found lead to Ian Huntley but denial and rejection was all he contributed to the case at first. His selfishness and demeanour of self pity was all that he presented until he knew that the court would not find him innocent of the charges he faced. The courage of Huntley to try and surpass this true crime of monstrosity is incredible. What persuaded this man to cajole these girls and murder them is a question that is not still answered but needs to be as this crime is truly bizarre. Huntley showed a strange emotion when he vomited outside the bathroom shortly after taking the girls lives. Dragging the bagged girls in his vomit, throughout the house and into the back of his jeep imitates a sort of disposal of unwanted ‘items’ in ones homes. Huntley disposed of the bodies near a river bank on the stems of trees where he naively thought that they would not be found. Knowing his actions and state crime, Huntley went along on the missing trail find for the girls and probably found this scenario a true crime!

Commentary

Taking into consideration that one of the purposes of this piece was to entertain, emotional language such as the adjective innocent and verb naively was incorporated so that it can match the audience and purpose. The exclamation at the end of the article was used as a bit of humour to show that even the murderer would be fascinated in the scenario of his own actions. The use of the syndetic list, ‘crude, brutal and gruesome’ drags out the type of death that the girls faced which creates empathy towards them.

On the Murder of James Bulger- TV voiceover

On the Murder of James Bulger- TV voiceover

Venables and Thompson: Monsters or Children?

James Bugler. The two year old who was abducted, tortured and murdered by Jon Venable and Robert Thompson. The little boy who simply went shopping with his mother on a normal afternoon but was never seen alive again. This documentary will take you into minds, courtroom procedures and interrogations with the two ten year old boys, who committed this senseless act and will impose the question, are they Monsters or Children?

The case has brought about national grief and fear for James Bulger and for so many citizens children. Venables and Thompson are now the youngest killers in the modern history of Britain but the reasoning behind their actions is still unknown to all of us. How can we view them? Murders, kidnappers, cold-hearted or confused, ignorant, innocent? Can we get out of our minds that these slaughterers and sex offenders were only 10 years old? Could we forgive their disregard to the act they committed because their minds are not fully developed? These questions were thought of by the legal team for this case and were taunted the minds of the public viewing this unheard of story.

To take any life is uncalled for by any person, but to know that the life of an innocent two year old boy was easily taken is never thought about. Venables and Thompson did not confess their roles in this crime until they were interrogated every day. They cried wildly and spoke of ‘playing in the subways’ with each other and without James Bulger. However, The legal team soon find out that this was false and that Bulger was with them all the way until they stopped and began their monstrous deed. Venable spoke of bricks, metal bars, kicks and undressing of the two year old who surely did not have a clue about the situation he was in. I did kill him was the outcry of Venable. Monster or Child?

Commentary

The use of the 3 powerful verbs at the beginning emphasizes the actions towards the killers to state the ‘monsters’ area of the task. The rhetorical questions in the middle paragraph is there to question the listeners on the impression they get from the killers to answer the title. The repetition of the slogan, monsters or children, was used to make known the purpose of the documentary so that the listeners could decide. The reference to a quotation from the article is used to state that this piece is factual and not fiction so that the listener knows it is reliable. The use of the victims name is proper pronoun form is there to make known as well as create empathy for him. The last rhetorical question is used to leave a lasting impression on the listener.

Justice at Night-Joe’s Diary

Justice at Night-Joe’s Diary

“Some goddam nigger, name of Hyancith”...

Those words have played on my mind from last night. How uncompassionate of those men to refer to Hyancith in such a manner. Southerners!

I still cannot gather why such a crime is allowed and tolerated in a world where social integration should be embraced.  When times are rapidly moving along and individuals should be noticed.

What a ‘gathering’, the murder of an innocent was a gathering for these Southerners. At night they mingle and marvel at the sight of an innocent being hanged for an act that was ridiculously believed. An old woman in her forty’s or fifty’s is no one  to get excited about and being a young man Hyancith could have never tried a thing with her. Anyone could have seen that...

The fear and pity Hyancith showed, never again do I want to experience such sympathy. Brutality at the first degree- Dragged and hanged....

I feel like I participated by witnessing such an act of barbarism and certain crude. If only I could have helped, stopped, changed the whole situation and sighting. Looking at that poor boy...

The causality of murdering a ‘negro’ in the middle of nowhere, under a massive tree should be alarming to each and every one of those spectators. But noooooo! They stand and chant and extremely ridicule this young man.

The image still flames in my head. The burning of human flesh, the tugging, dragging, hatred towards this boy is definitely a scene that will imprint my mind....

If only I could change what happened, helped him, even not look.

If only

Commentary

I began with a quotation from the book to emphasis the ‘trauma’ that Joe experiences from watching the scene. I repeated a lot of ellipses to show that Joe could not construct his words and really felt what happened. Also, I used adjectives to describe the exact feelings of Joe and the night before. I repeated the noun Southerners to re-enforce that it was a new surrounding for Joe and that he disliked where he was. I put a few spaces to show that the subject was a difficult one for Joe to write in his diary.