Nicole Zerbo
October 8, 2012
Yes, China and Jeremy are condemned by their peers because what they did was terrible. My response is the same as their peers, if not worse. I have taken a forensics class my senior year in high school and learned about Jeffrey Dahmer; what Dahmer did was disgusting. He killed men and he thought that he could turn them into sex zombies by drilling holes into their skulls and injecting them with some type of acid. Any type of murder is bad. Boyle persuaded me in to thinking that such an event could never be possible. Being completely and utterly puzzled, I had no idea how Jeremy ended up dumping his own flesh and blood in a dumpster. Boyle's use of cacophonies, diction, and imagery in his story made me realize how disturbed I was with the each main character. I do not understand how Jeremy could willingly dump his own baby in a dumpster, nor how China could tell him to "get rid of it." The dialogue in this short story made me yearn for a psychologically correct explanation on how a woman who claims she is an adult can carry a baby in her stomach for 9 months and then have her boyfriend throw it in the dumpster after giving birth. I would like to understand the aspects of such behavior and how one could go about doing something so terrible. While it is difficult for me to understand how someone could dump a new born in a dumpster, I do not believe that there is an explanation for murder. If China did not want the baby she could have given it up for adoption. It is not like she got an abortion when she knew she was pregnant; she had sex, got pregnant, gave birth, and abruptly ended her own child's life when another adult could have been able to nurture that child.
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