In today lesson, we were missing Cel so decided not to devise anything without her, as she didn't appreciate us doing so. My group, my teacher and I ended up spending a large amount of the lesson talking about the research we have all found and the case in general. It is a heartbreaking, disgusting case and we all hate the fact that it happened, but it does bring about many interesting questions that are impossible to know the true answer to. A couple of the thoughts that none of us could agree on are;
'Is the up-bringing of Thompson and Venables the reason why they done it' - Although Venebles did have a hard upbringing, and Thompson was missing many components of a healthy upbringing, many people have traumatic, heartbreaking upbringings and would never think of doing something half as evil as this, or though their upbringings weren't as they should be, it still provides no reason for them to have done what they did.
'Is any of this Denises fault' - James and Oliver argued that you should never leave your child unattended which is true, and she shouldn't have done so but he was still a couple of feet away from her, she wasn't looking away for a long amount of time, I truly feel that there simply cannot be anybody to blame for this horrible crime, than those who committed it. Everybody is capable of violence, everybody is capable of evil things and many people have factors that could make them more likely to do so, but those boys had evil in the hearts, they had set out to kill that day (there original plan was to push someone into ongoing traffic) and nothing should protect them from the blame that is rightfully theirs.
Next lesson, we are going to devise our opening scene for our piece.
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