A Serial Killer Raymond Clevie Carver Analysis

This short story tells about a mother and her son. Ever since he was young, even though he was mostly a good boy, the son has clearly had some issues. He would never tell the truth and it was sickening to hear that he had supposedly killed his own beloved pet cat Trudy with firecrackers. That’s how serial killers are born. It’s not right and he clearly has a messed up moral meter. Was he just trying to fill the void that his missing father figure left behind? Did he just have some mental disorder that couldn’t be helped? The American author and poet Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. had a tough life so it isn 't too surprising that he created such a devastating story.

It all started on the night of the 4th of July, when a neighbor of the mother had claimed to have witnessed something beyond belief. The neighbor claimed that the mother’s son and his

That he actually did all those things. She just kept babying him. Honey this and honey that. But eventually grew suspicious of him. He probably had it in him from the very day he was born. There was no way to prevent this, unless maybe if he had a father figure. I honestly don 't know if that would’ve even helped. Maybe she didn 't want to accept these claims, because she felt like it would be her fault. She would think that she wasn 't a good enough mother or that it’s her fault that there’s no powerful father figure there. She didn 't want to be named as

a bad mom. It wasn 't her it was him. But there is one thing I think she should have done. That speech she said to her son in the near end of the text should’ve been said in the very beginning. Maybe it would’ve awakened something within him when he was younger. Maybe he would have realised the wrong he had done and he would have been a good boy all together. There 's a saying that in order to fully remove and get rid of a weed, without it always growing back, is to pluck it from the