This story really made me think. I find it so strange how things can happen so coincidentally. This little girl, just playing, exploring, innocently learning, with a camera taping a complete stranger, who appears to be nice and innocent, just happens to end up videotaping a drive-by murder. Just thinking about that seems to hard to believe. It shows how much violence is really out in the world. What were the chances, that this little girl would end up videotaping some crazy killer's act of murder? The scary thing is... it happened, so the odds must be greater than I would have thought.
This story also revealed how much people swarm to tragedy. I have seen this many times before. Thousands of kids going to a funeral for a boy they probably never even saw once in their life, but because he went to their school they feel that they are a part of his death somehow. Or, kids acting like they are best friends with a girl who becomes diagnosed with cancer who never even spoke to her or did not care for her before this traumatic event occurred. People love tragedy. They are innately drawn to it. And this is sad. Think of how traffic gets backed up on a highway when there is an accident, not because the wrecked car is in the way, but because everyone driving by has to slow down and look to see what happened and how bad it was. This is, unfortunately, human nature. We all have this curiosity that only seems to be quenched when we are viewing someone else's torture, death, or misfortune. It is sad, but true, and this story and the way the narrator explains his feelings while seeing this video over and over and over again exemplify this truth.
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I agree with you fully on the way you analyzed this story. It makes a clear point of how the world works. Tragedies happen everyday to the innocent. Even if the tragedies is just viewing the death of another, it show how hard real life can be.
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