“The Borden Murders” written by Sarah Miller, a crime that happened in the Bordens house, 92 second street in Fall River, Massachusetts. Andrew Borden, the father of the family was killed, lying on the ground of the living room, as well as the stepmother, the second wife of the family, Abby Borden. This book focused on the relationship between the characters, mainly within the family. The author used her descriptive words to lead readers through all of the bits and pieces of evidence, from the beginning of the family crime all the way to the end of this century case. The theme of this book is- Serious consequences might happen due to long-term dissatisfaction. Also, the book connects to many other ideas such as how kids have thoughts on their parents’ way of treating them and the difference between how their parents treat them and the others. For example, how Andrew Borden helped Abby’s family with any kind of issue, especially the amount of money he spent on helping Abby’s half blood sister to improve her living conditions. Where as the way he treats her daughters were not as “generous”, but he shows a wise and helpful being to outsiders. These details and ofcourse many other things lid on Lizzie’s dissatification towards her father and the woman who came after her mother, who didn’t play a good role in being a mother, who took away her fathers attention and love. Eventually, she took an axe, gave her mother forty wacks, then gave her father another forty…..
The top two reason to read this book:
1“ For those who are interested in journals, or documentary-like books that records a specific event, this book puts all of its focusing on this one specific crime. You get a chance to dig deep into a century crime which made certain influence to the society at that time and because how the author wrote the book it is absolutely worth it to read and have a full understanding of the case.
2“ This book kind of makes you a detective, while reading and trying to understand what happened, you are also guessing what will happen next since you follow the case from beginning to the end… Sometimes, in one piece of evidence, there may be many flips and turns. Just to let you know, Lizzie isn’t the only one who has suspect on murding the Borden parents! Isn’t it thrilling? To start from knowing nothing about who is who and what happened between them, to getting a hang of who dislike abby as a stepmother, then to switching your inspection between characters a few times!
One thing I learned from this unit:
I am really interested in nonfiction books since I like to read recordings of true events. The book reflected some problems that is very common to have between family members. Such as how a big percentage of kids or teenagers finds it hard to accept step parents due to many reasons! Likewise, these problems used to effect me, too! It is relatable! and in class, we discussed many society issues, and some social issues caused by some current events. I learned how to think about something, particularly a common problem that many people finds it hard to face, to solve or struggling about it, or getting effected by it, I learned how to see them as a part of our human life in the modern world. Not to make any choice or action before you get to know things very well. Just like how I changed my target so many times while reading the book because things flip and turn, without knowing something fully, it is not a wise choice to make a conclusion