There are thousands of crimes that have been committed throughout history, even millions. Some are real, while others are far from reality. One way a crime can be fabricated is in a book. There are many instances when what occurs in a book cannot possibly happen in real life. The author tends to put real-life characteristics in it, but what makes it interesting is the actual fiction part of it. In I Hunt Killers, the main character, a seventeen year old boy named Jazz, is involved in solving the recent serial killer case. The author portrays many exaggerated situations that clearly prove to be unrealistic circumstances.
Considering the size of the town, Jazz can easily be involved in the case, but he does not have the correct training like a professional would. Lobo’s Nod is such a small town that “the odds of two separate serial killers picking [this] tiny [place] were beyond astronomical” (Lyga 21). This town is probably about the size of Gladewater, Texas. With only a little over 6,000 people, there is a very small chance of even one serial killer living here.
Jazz knows a lot about serial killers, because his dad is currently in prison for just that. He was taught the ways of being one. Though he is not a killer, he still knows what they think like. This is why he knew there was one before G. William did. Jazz told him that he “understood these guys” and constantly asked to “let [him] help” (Lyga 16 & 19). Of course G. William said no to a teenage boy helping in a case, but that did not stop Jazz. He manipulated his best friend, Howie, into checking out the morgue with him. Jazz is so nonchalant that he just “strode into the morgue like he lived there” (Lyga 27-28).
If it were real life, a couple of high school kids would no...
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...ok part in witnessing Ginny’s death, he would not have received that kind of information from the chief of police about a victim’s toxicology.
With so many unrealistic events in the story, it is obvious that the author is far from reality. In real life, Jazz would have some kind of record. Even though it would be for petty break-ins and contamination of crime scenes, he would receive actual consequences for it. So many books relate to I Hunt Killers by all of the fictional parts, but that is what makes it a book and not real life. There can be something learned from the differences in real life and a fictional book about crime. Though there are true facts stated throughout books, there are too many untrue instances that turn the facts into some crazy made up event.
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Lyga, Barry. I Hunt Killers. 1st ed. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2013. Print.
The book itself was hard to follow. It is not the type of book I would normally choose to read. There was not much character development and way too many slimy characters too keep track of. The crimes were plentiful and the relationships between the characters were often unclear. The book seemed to jump around to numerous detailed incidents and crimes that occurred making it difficult to tie them together. The author of the book was a magazine journalist, so this type of writing was out of his comfort zone. Nevertheless, Brown must be given a great deal of credit for putting in years of dedication to investigate this story that police overlooked and possibly participated in. This book needed to be written because, without it, more women could have been murdered. Brown first published an article on the case before witting the book, the day the article came out the body of the last victim was
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theaters, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Nobles Booksellers” (Brown). When people think of serial killers, names such as Dahmer, Gacy, Bundy, and Gein are cited. During the time Jack the Ripper was executing his victims in London, Holmes began his gruesome career in Chicago (America’s Serial Killers). “Despite being America’s first serial killer, Holmes is hardly a familiar name and until now we haven’t had any popular visual record of his crimes: (Spikol). Why is it that people only think of the more popular killers with higher known profiles? They are all very similar to one another because they share characteristics. H.H. Holmes was a successful serial killer because he was well educated, cunning and charming. Those are just a few traits Holmes ...
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