Character Analysis Of Jeffrey Dahmer: The Milwaukee Cannibal

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Topic: Jeffrey Dahmer “The Milwaukee Cannibal.” For hundreds of years, boys of all ages have set ants and any small living things they can get there adolescent hands on, ablaze with magnifying glasses, they step on the living things in hopes of destroying all life and the souls that they have been told are inside of them. There is an early on fascination in a child's life of death and killing, but this curiosity soon ends once there is a further understanding of death, as I often say Once something is dead its sole existence is no longer with us, but what if this fascination does not go away in the presence of adolescence and puberty. What if this fascination of the dead evolves into something that begins to pull aspects from sexual orientation. Can the Past events In Jeffrey Dahmer's life can be attributed to the man he became? I think so.
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“What I took from the movie was that Jeffrey Dahmer was very very misunderstood.” (Neil, Kayla.) What I personally took away from this movie was that he was not a normal human and when you mix a not so normal human being with traumatic events you end up with a person like Dahmer. We then talked about the recurring themes that the movie was trying to convey. We felt that the first and foremost theme was that J.D. was a troubled soul. That he was not put together, “he was not wired correctly”(Maguire.) This was displayed by showing the toxic relationship his parents had with one another and “it is believed, in hindsight, that his mother, Joyce Dahmer, suffered from postpartum depression.” Joyce was known to lash out on J.D. due to minor occurrences such as not doing specific chores (Forrester ). But to get a further understand of why Jeffrey Dahmer became the man he did, I began to do my own

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