Maegen's 1st Blog!!!!!!!=]

Do you agree with Steinbeck's premise that there "are monsters born in the world"?

I don't agree with Steinbeck that there are monster's born into this world, because I believe everyone has good in them, even if they don't like to show it. He bluntly states that there are physical monsters born into this world, and believes that if there can be physical monster's why can't there be mental ones. I don't agree with his statement about phyically disabled people being monster's. Just because they're aren't the same as everyone else, does that really make them monster's? I don't think so, it's not always a bad thing to be different.

But, on a different point of view there has been a lot of serial killers in the world, I myself don't believe I have ever met one, but who knows. I don't see how anyone could kill multiple people on purpose and still have a soul or conscience. I believe anyone who can physiclaly kill someone else for no reason thats not on drugs or being hypnotized has no heart or love to give, either that or they are insane. Even if they did have a bad childhood, nothing could make a mind so hateful and evil if they had any good in them before that. Like Cathy, from East of Eden, she just hated her parents and saw the bad in everybody for no reason, she had a good home and a good life, but that had no effect on her actions. I do believe that aprents do play a very important part and role in your life, but if you are born evil nothing else will matter, that's just how your mind thinks. Yet, some people are able to overcome the evil, like Cal Trask, and want and try his best to be good. Some people have to try harder than other's to be nice and do the right thing, to some it comes naturally, and to other's it doesn't.

As you may I have noticed, I changed my mind during the writing and thinking. The first paragraph is what I know and live by with my everyday experiences the second is based on what I've heard on the news and read in the papers. Maybe someday I'll come across a soul who doesn't have a conscience, so I can witness what I've said in the second paragraph. I truly do believe that some people are born nicer then others but monster's....who knows?