Over the past two weeks, I have been reading Sarah Miller‘s novel The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden & The Trial of the Century. The book is about The Borden Murders, a Murder case that confused the nation a century ago. The day, August 4^th, 1892, was when everything changed for Lizzie Borden. A murder happened at their house in Fall Rivers. The victims were Andrew and Abby Borden, Lizzie’s father and stepmother, respectively. Suspects were removed from the list one by one. Only one person remained, Lizzie herself. But how could Lizzie, a woman, murder her parents? Join me in my notebook, where we discover the themes and ideas of the book. 

 

This page is about Lizzie’s traits and how they could have been a motive to kill her parents. I also researched her traits to fact-check them and find new ones. I think that her dominating traits would be a significant motive for the murder.

This page is about bias and inaccurate evidence used in court cases. I used evidence from the book to show how there was bias and inaccurate evidence. This issue can connect to our world today, with so much misinformation on the Internet. I believe that we should improve the accuracy of the information on the Internet.

This page is about discrimination in the book, especially against Portuguese. There was also gender discrimination. I did research on the topic of discrimination in the period. Only a decade before, the civil rights movement ended, which showed me that discrimination was widespread during that time.

This page is about the relationship between Lizzie and her family. I see that there was a conflict between Lizzie and her stepmother. I added on when I read to page 221, where the trial disregarded evidence of Lizzie and her family because of how biased and single-minded.

This page is about connecting ideas. I connected discrimination to bias in court cases and also the relationship with family for Lizzie to bias in court cases.

Thank you for reading my whole blog post. The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden & The Trial of the Century is a great read with many ideas and themes.

Credit to Britannica for the photo of Lizzie Borden.