Sunday, August 30, 2015
Death in "Escape from Spiderhead"
Although Heather, Rachael, and Jeff were all convicted murderers I couldn't help but feel sorry for them. In the end, it was clear that Jeff had changed since being convicted for his crimes. It also seemed a similar transformation occurred in both Heather and Rachael, who were oblivious to what was happening to them. In the end, Jeff could not go through with playing a role in Rachael's death after his "work with Mrs. Lacey." He was so against killing another human being, he took the only other option he saw. In the end as Jeff is floating upward, Omnipotent, we get to see the numerous other inmates waiting to play a similar role in the experiments.
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I felt the same way! Even though the girls committed horrid crimes, I was still appalled when the first killed herself. However, I think there is a distinction that should be made between Jeff not wanting to kill another human being, and with him not wanting to inflict horrible unrelenting terror on another.
ReplyDeleteI think this story conveys a powerful statement of how even convicted killers feel the same amount of empathy that normal humans feel
ReplyDeleteI felt this was one of the main points of the story. It was supposed to make you feel bad for the prisoners even though they had done horrible things in their past. It brings up the fact on no matter how bad a human being has been, they still should be treated like a human being.
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