On August 4th of that same year, a native of Pleasant Grove spotted a collective colored quilt lying in Old Highland Park. Under the impression that the quilt belonged to Baum, the man figured he should return the presumably missing blanket back to its rightful owner. But to his, and eventually everyone else’s unmitigated horror, the quilt was hiding …show more content…
The only element misrepresenting this theory is the death of her second son, the birth that conclusively ended with her death. In a personal opinion, it’s supposed that, if she had survived, Baum would have never harmed that baby. Because, first of all, killing the child would have put the decision of her upcoming trial in jeopardy. Second, it wouldn’t fit her contemplated agenda. The source of her surmised animosity emulates its provenance towards the violations administered by her mother, not any male …show more content…
However, there’s still a small percentage displaying destructive mannerisms. Dr. E. Fuller Torrey explains that this modest number becomes violent because they are suffering from acute symptoms of psychosis (Torrey, n.d.), a mental state in which thoughts and emotions are so impaired the deprivation of reality and abstraction becomes severed (n.d.). Multiple applications have found that in cases of schizophrenic instability, delusions are usually the most influential cause in brutality. Personally, Baum would not be categorized as a violent schizophrenic. Her crimes were not committed from an initiative of disturbances, but of detached empathy plagued by chilling illusions. She became victim to voices of mangled logic bouncing off the walls of her conscious. Constructed memories of her traumatizing agony become repressions striking down each cerebral shield. Trailing whispers of trepidation sink into her head; fits of persuasion igniting an extension of loathing for the mother, for the woman. Inevitably, Baum eventually succumbs to the rumbles of deviancy, surrendering to the act of redemption by sacrificing the feminine