Effects Of An Abused Child In Agatha Christie's Three Blind Mice

Effects of an Abused Child: An Analysis of the “Three Blind Mice”

Agatha Christie symbolism in the novel “Three Blind Mice” is the abuse that the character Jim suffered from; the novel that was written by Agatha Christie tells the story of how being abused as a child affected Jim as an adult. In the “Three Blind Mice,” Jim, his brother and sister were abused as a child; children that are abused or go through a trauma can have severe psychological effects on them whenever they are adults. Any type of abuse experiences and trauma during a person's childhood and teen years can affect that person as an adult; leaves that person whenever they are adults with negative side effect that can and could last forever. This type of situation would have

caused a conflict, whether it would have been in the time period that it was written or in this new time period. Society would have had an impact on it because when the child was older than he/she could become a drug addict or an alcoholic. There are more than three million reports of children that are abused in the United States; this is just in the U.S. so just imagine how many there are all over the world. Would there be billions and billions of children that are being suffered from abuser almost like what Jims abusers were? If there is any person that thinks that any child deserves to be mistreated then they have no heart whatsoever. No child did anything just as bad to be able to deserve to be raped, be called names, beaten, sexual harassed or use that child in any inhuman way.
In the “Three Blind Mice,” a married couple had inherited a home that they turn it into a bed and breakfast, but it turns out that one of their guests is actually a murder (Jim).

During the Jims childhood years, he was adopted along with his two other siblings by a farmer and his wife, but they were abused by the farmer and his wife. One of the Jims sibling abuse went into the extent of its death. Jim vowed to get justice into his own hand and kill the three people, which he things had the responsibility to prevent their abuse whenever they were children. A couple days before the bed and breakfast, Jim kills the wife of the farmer and the farmer died in a car accident after attempting to escape the police. Jim also killed one of the guests of the home, Mrs. Boyle, who was responsible for putting Jim and his siblings into the hands of the abusive farmer and his wife. The third and the last person that Jim was going to kill was Molly, who was the co-owner of the bed and breakfast, Jim thought that Molly was a Jims brother, teacher when they were just a child and that she could have been able to prevent the abuse that Jim and his siblings went through but Molly is actually that the sister of the teacher that Jims brother had. A detective has saved Molly just when she is about to be

killed.
Someone who goes through traumatic experiences or was abused as a child or during their teenage years. They may go through body or mental issues that would affect their lives and the lives of the people that surround them. People may have emotional consequences like anxiety disorder, feeling sad or hopeless, shock, denial, disbelief, anger, irritability, mood swings, unsocial, depression, or even schizophrenia. People may have physical disorders like eating disorders, addictive behaviors like doing drugs or alcohol, insomnia or nightmares, being startled easily, aches and pain, fatigue, having difficulty concentrating, muscle tension, edginess and even might have agitation. This is just some of the emotional or even physical disorders that people who were abused as a child or teen and also if they went through a traumatic event in their childhood years or teenage years might suffer from. In the novella Jim tells Mrs. Davis that, “I had to get away. I was afraid they’d stop me doing what I wanted to do. But I am grown up now. Grown-ups can do what they like.” He was left with the mentality that once was an adult then he could do whatever he wanted to do since that is what the farmer and his wife did. They abused Jim and his siblings and no one ever did anything about it or said anything about it. There are many signs that people can notice that gives them a clue that something is happening to them like having speech disorders, slow physical development, not wanting to be near someone in specific, bruises, burns, bed wetting, or having fractures too often. In the novella, Jims brother had succeed at sending a letter to his teacher; Jim told Mrs. Davis, “The letter begged for help – help from his kind teacher. It is a teachers business to find out why a child does not come to school.” Not going to school was a sign to the teacher and many other adults that something was going on with Jims brother; a sign that alerted them to go look for him and check out if everything was going good for Jims brother, Jims sister and Jim himself.
There are many children and teens that are abused or go through a traumatic event; no one should be scared to go to someone and get help to get out of a situation that they can not change without getting the help of someone else to change their situation and for them to no longer be abused by their abusers.

Many children do not understand what is occurring to them whenever they are being abused; they just stay quiet because they are scared of what would occur to them if they speak up or their abusers might have threatened them already about what would occur to them if they spoke about what their abusers did to them to anyone. A twenty-five year old woman that was abused by her uncles whenever she was 10 yrs. old say that, “I did not know what was occurring… I was only a child,” then a 6-year old girl who gets put in a home where her family members physically abuse her says, “Why did my parents abandon me when I most needed them? Why they live with these people?” Anyone can be an abuser; there is not any discrimination in who is an abuser. Just like Michael (“Michael’s Story.” Child Help.), who was taken away from his mother because his mother was a drug addict and put into his aunt's hands, which was almost just as bad until the C.P.S got a word about it and put Michael in Chilhelp or like Emma's story (“Emma’s Story.” Child Help.) Emma parents got divorced when Emma was 9 years old; later on her mother got a boyfriend. One day, Emma mothers’ boyfriend touched Emma

everywhere, which was inappropriate for him to do so. Emma had a good communication with her father and ended up telling him while she cried out how it had occurred. Remember that being abused is not just being hit or anything like that, but also being raped or being touched by someone else in places that they should not be touching and that it can be anyone even if that person is the most trusted person. It could that any ones dad, mom, close friend, or anyone never them that no one would expect it to be, so if there is someone who are being abused by anyone then that person should speak up. Being abused does not just mean to be hit by anyone, screamed at, or be called names to the point that it is affecting that mental but also to be raped or sexual harassed. A person that have been sexual harassed has the probability to later on have sex with multiple people or not have sex whatsoever because having sex or anything close to it would remind them of what they went through. There are many places for people who had been sexual harassed to assist for help, like the Promise Place that is in New Bern, North Carolina. The Promise Place helps anyone who had been sexual assaulted, raped or any other type of sexual abuse and their quote is “We can never tell you when your fully healed and when you are suppose to be over what had happened to you.” Someone could go to one of this type of organizations for help or go to someone that they trust very much like a teacher or a trusted adult that they know will do something to help them into getting out of the situation that they are in.
If the farmer would not have abused Jim and his wife then he would never have vowed to seek revenge against them and he would not have been mentally disable. The “Three Blind Mice” shows the consequences that are caused by people that abuse teenagers or children to the extent that they want to seek revenge against them later on in life or even seek revenge against the people that could have prevented it. Anyone that sees any sign of a child or teens' behavior or another way should examine them with close attention to figuring out what might be occurring in their outside lives or if anything that should not be occurring to them is occurring. Do not let any more children suffer! Not more than what is suffering already by evil, cruel people that has no heart or from people that are not conscious of what they are doing to their loved ones. There are addicts’ people that whenever they are under the influenced of whatever substance they may be taken, do not realize that they are hurting their love ones like their children when they are under that substance. Alcoholic parents may hit their child, but their child would not say about a thing because they are scared of what would occur to them if they do like would they be taken away from their mother? Or would they be separated from one of their siblings whenever they are sent off to a foster home. Even though they are being hit or mistreated by their mother, they may still love their mother because she shows them that she loves them whenever she is not under the influence of the alcohol.
Abuse experiences and trauma during a person's childhood and teen years can affect an adult; it leaves the adult with negative effects that can last forever. No child or teenager deserves to go through any type of abuse or traumatic event in his or her life, no matter what they might have done. No one in the world deserves to be mistreated, sexual harassed, or mentally bullied by anyone whatsoever. Everyone should pay close attention in the way that his or her students, child, or any other child acts. To see if there are any changes in the way that the child acts now than how he or she used to act. If there are many changes then to pay close attention to them because someone might abuse them or someone did something to them to cause the change of how they were. Help lower the percentage of children and teens being abused everyday! Without the help of everyone then it might never get to the point of it be over.