civilized world as we know it. Multiple ‘wild child’s’ were examined from the early 1700’s to the late 1900’s (Ivan Mishukov). The children Newton went into depth with were Peter the Wild Boy (1725), Memmie Le Blanc (1731), Victor of Aveyron (1797), Kaspar Hauser (early 1800s), and Genie (1970). Newton engulfs the reader into the psychological aspect between humans, animals and how they were perceived in the era the child lived in. He looks at whether they had souls, whether they were considered ‘human’
Stories about children who were adopted and raised by wolves, monkeys, and bears appear from time to time. These reports are causing dismay or amaze readers of journalistic chronicles. In the middle ages, these "little savages" were seen as a symbol of chaos, heresy, insanity, and curse of God. These are those children, who have never seen humans; therefore, their behavior and attitude is very distant from normal human children. It is so amazing that different species are able to live so closer to
Life In A Dark Place To be alone in a dark place no communication and yearning for the touch of someone. This is the life that Kasper Hauser lived for many years. At current times this would be considered Reactive Attachment Disorder. This happens when children are left to themselves basic needs for comfort, affection and nurturing aren’t meet. Also imagine a child who is able to overcome these things. Learning to speak and understand the world around him. Millhauser is trying to convey the thought
Do werewolves exist? According to eleven-year-old Heather Bowey, a werewolf chased her at about four-thirty pm while she was on her way home from sledding with her friends in 1990. They were walking near Loveland Road, which is about a mile and a half away from Bray Road, when she saw a large dog walking along a creek in a cornfield. Heather and her friends assumed it was a dog, so they called it to them. The creature noticed them and stood up directly on its hind legs, but it seemed unaccustomed