94Įliza is Laura’s little sister, a girl roughly the same age as Charlie. "Eliza Wishart knows something." Charlie, p. What the author wanted to highlight through this example was the fact that sometimes, humans are capable of truly horrific things, one of them being the capacity to ignoring something horrific entirely if they think that revealing the truth will not benefit them. Charlie thought about how those who knew about her and even her sister could go on about their day without doing anything and without acting in any way to stop it. What is truly horrifying about the case is that many people knew about Sylvia and about what was happening to her, but they chose to do nothing. While there, Charlie reads about the case of Sylvia Likens, a young girl who was raped, tortured and murdered by the family that was taking care of her. In the third chapter, Charlie goes to the local library where he reads about different crimes. "How was it that Gertrude Baniszewski could seduce so many children into committing these acts?" Charlie, p. Charlie seems to note a strong community-wide pressure to conform to a certain set of pre-approved behaviors. By doing this, they encourage their children to develop the same type of mentality as their parents and to manifest prejudice against a person they barely know and understand. When their children misbehave, the parents of Corrigan will often use Jasper as a negative example and tell their children that if they are disobedient, they will end up just like him.
Jasper is seen as being a negative influence by the community, and as a result, many consider him a villain. "This is how you’ll end up if you’re disobedient.’’ Charlie, p.
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