Reasons Why the Misfit Committed Murder

Reasons why the misfit committed murder

Callie Haapala

Period 1

C 3 reasons why Misfit committed murder

• 1. Papers claiming he murdered his father, even though he didn’t remember and of it
• 2. He can’t make his punishment fit with all the things he has gotten done wrong with him
• 3. He can’t tell what’s right from wrong, the tire and killing someone
• 4. Killed grandma because she brought up memories that he didn’t want to feel

E 3 examples/ quotes

• 1. “I had committed one because they had the papers on me. Of course," he said, "they never shown me my papers.”
• 2. “. I call myself The Misfit," he said, "because I can't make what all I done wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment."”
• 3. “"I found out the crime don't matter. You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you're going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it."
• 4. “"Why you're one of my babies. You're one of my own children !" She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest.”

R response/ reasoning

• The misfit probably wanted to kill them to feel like he actually committed the murder that he was being punished for all these years and, he said kids scared him, so he decided to kill all of them even though he had a good home life.

Paragraphs

        One reason why the misfit committed murder was due to the fact that he said he didn’t remember himself killing his father, only that he beside him were walls, above him was a ceiling, and below him was a floor. He did not remember what he had done to that day, he only knew he had papers on himself for supposedly killing his father. “I had committed one because they had the papers on me. Of course," he said, "they never shown me my papers.”. He never knew what he had been said to do, and all he knows is that the word around is he had shot his own father.