Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Third Quarter CC#1: Woman Bites Her Own Wrists

The author, Anonymous, describes the actions of the woman in the Izard County Jail in, Woman Bites Her Own Wrists. This irked me a bit, so here I am. Irking people is, I am guessing, the author's way of getting your attention. The article seems to be implying that the woman, a lady named Michelle, is actually possessed rather than mentally ill.

You may be thinking something along the lines of the movie, The Devil Inside right now, so let me clear something up. This woman was admitted into a "treatment facility" later on. According to our Anonymous author, "A Viola woman who bit her wrists while in jail restraints was rushed to a hospital for massive bleeding, and now faces felony charges stemming from her conduct." Does that not seem crazy to you? I think that sounds really crazy. When I first looked at the article, I thought, "Definitely about a possessed lady." I was proved wrong. The way that the article is phrased, it makes the woman appear to be possessed. Maybe the author believes that she is.

As stated by Tate Lawrence, a sheriff at Izard County Jail, " Michelle Alaine Batterton was being held in jail as the result of minor charges from Fulton County, but when she began screaming and hitting her head against the door of her cell officials placed her in a restraint chair in order to prevent her from doing bodily harm to herself." This is still pointing the the idea that the author might be trying to say that the woman, a crazy lady, is possessed.  Maybe she is. The things that she is doing to herself and others seems to make it out to be that way.

Author then types, "District Judge David E. Miller set her bond at $5,000 and granted her a conditional release for admittance to a treatment facility." What better way to end the article? The judge seems to believe that Michelle, the crazy woman, is only crazy. I still believe that the moot point of this was to imply the possession of Michelle.   Is that not just the best thing? 

I would like to connect this to The Devil Inside, based on the assumption that the author wanted us to believe Michelle is possessed. In this movie, the mother is possessed and she does all kinds of weird things. Including screaming and hitting her head on the wall of her cell until officials of the facility had to pull her away from it.  Do you want to connect her cuts for her? The cuts were on her wrist, as were the "cuts" or puncture wounds from Michelle's teeth. Maybe she wants someone to connect her cuts. All she could make them with was her teeth.   

                                                             
The idea of possession is scary to many of us and tends to be cast out of eyesight. The author is attatching the innuendo that casting something under the rug is not the way to go about things. Everything needs to be dealt with and then packed away in an organized file cabinet.

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