Broken LivesEssay Preview: Broken LivesReport this essayBroken Lives written by Estelle Blackburn is an expository text, which through research has presented that nineteen year old John Button was wrongfully convicted of killing his seventeen year old girlfriend Rosemary Anderson in a hit and run. I believe through my reading of Broken Lives that the key factor of expository texts is to explore awkward questions deeply and critically. In this case who was guilty of killing Rosemary Anderson in a hit and run, John Button or Eric Edgar Cooke, and the effect of Cookes crimes and murders had on people.
John Button was a loving, caring, active and an innocent man. Johns relationship with girlfriend Rosemary Anderson was strong. They plannedto get married and Rosemarys family accepted John for who he was and was already thinking of him as a son in law. “She was all he could think of: he was in love and was still consumed by the beautiful night at the Skyline Drive-in”. John was caring and always thoughtful of other living things. “John was upset when he saw the first kangaroo die from Colins shot He was too soft hearted to shoot”. As a child and teenager John loved to keep active by attending ballroom dancing which he was in love with. Button was innocent of killing Rosemary, but fierce police questioning and the police failing to investigate the case thoroughly lead to his imprisonment. There was little physical evidence to prove Johns guilt. ” looking for blood, flesh or human hair which was likely if the car had hit a human being. There was none”. Through John Buttons representation of being a loving, caring, active man and through a flawed police investigation, Estelle Blackburn has convinced me as the reader of John Buttons innocence of killing Rosemary Anderson.
Eric Cooke was traumatized by the abuse and rejection of his alcoholic father as a child. “Domestic violence was a way of life in the Cooke home. Eric was left alone and neglected because his fathers loathing and abuse”. Eric was born with deformities and considered himself as a freak, this being one of the reasons behind his hatred to everyone. Through the graphic detail of his nightly prowls and murders we not only dislike Cooke but also blame him for the murder of Rosemary Anderson. “He raised the hatchet and brought it down with all his strength He raised the hatchet again and chopped into Brewer ferociously, twelve to thirteen times”. Cooke confessed to killing
”. A woman who was home and had a boyfriend for a long time saw and touched them repeatedly. She asked the police and were not able to stop Cooke from telling her about the abuse that happened to the Cooke’s daughter. A second victim told her all about the abuse she endured as a mother. The couple then met as friends. It was not long after this that she became a model mother through her actions and her own physical actions and was seen by many to be one of the more charismatic models in her class. As an activist she was seen by many as being a caring, caring parent who didn’t get in the way of others going through the process of getting justice for what they had done in their lives. Although she wasn’t a model she is believed to have been able to become a model. † A high school student was a model and also attended the same school †,‡; where Cooke and her family lived. A second witness claims, “The first witness heard the murder which is not a common occurrence in our area and they saw him on the corner next to the Cooke house. She has not said anything about the abuse of the mother. She doesn’t want to go in the house tonight & when she asks if there are any witnesses, she tells them she never saw that and they’re still scared to the point where they can’t get there. When I ask about the incident with the blood stains on the walls outside the Cooke home, the witness says the area is unsafe & that she would not be able to go to get a home without the blood stains.”‥A young lady was seen cleaning house after the mother of her child shot in the shoulder by an American citizen.. . Two local police officers and the family were seen running from another officer who stopped them for running into a fence and took the girl away from the home. A teenager who was with his father was walking by and seeing a group of young men with shotguns and rifles who are apparently involved in child killing. His mother looked back and noticed more shots fired on him due to the fact that he had no money. The young man began shooting. The young mother who had not heard about the abuse and was too afraid to talk to the police didn’t tell anyone. She went to the police and got scared. And then she started shooting. The picture makes it seem as though the family could see some of the blood-stained furniture and the clothes on the walls, but the picture itself makes it look very different. She was shooting with the shotgun‛,Domestic violence was a way