Character Analysis Of John Reed's My Grandma The Poisoner

Out of all things, no one would think that grandmas and poisoners goes hand in hand. Well John Reed was able to make an article called, “My Grandma the Poisoner” with exactly that. In the story, the grandma was poisoning people she loves and her family through her questionable home cooked foods. He was very descriptive in his story and used a lot of details to make the story more realistic. However, some descriptions, like how he knows the ingredients to grandma’s poison, made some readers question Reed’s motives. All things considered, Reed’s grandma did not have the intention to hurt anybody. People’s trauma from lack of affection causes the individual to do illogical methods to give affection in order to avoid rejection.
Grandma lacked affection when she was a child, and so her way of showing her affection might be illogical to some, but makes perfect sense to her. Grandma lived through the Great Depression, so she had to go through witnessing her dad losing his job and becoming a fireman, a job that requires you to shovel in coal into the furnace. There was an accident at the job and Grandma’s dad got injured in the face horribly. Grandma’s dad ran away but Grandma found him by chance and when he was questioned why he never came home he responded with, “I was afraid you wouldn’t

However, he chose to stay down at the cave because he is blind-sighted by his relationship with grandma. He did not go out of the cave to find out about the sun, which is her true intentions. It could also be that maybe Grandma had blocked the entrance of the cave as one of her retaliations to fight off affection. The chains holding down the prisoners represents the family ties Reed has with Grandma. Reed was born into the family without a choice, just like how the prisoners have been in the cave since