Texas Chainsaw Massacre Research Paper

Our society has been dealing with violence on a regular basis. In fact, violence has become a part of today’s society happening in schools, streets, homes, and even on television. The television broadcast it and we all watch it. Some shows are not so bad, and some are so gruesome, I think how do people think like this. Some are based on true stories and some are not, but the crimes did not start today, they go all the way back to the most known movie that has been made over many times, the Texas chainsaw massacre. The remakes have made changes to the actual story, but they all represent the same person. Back in 1954, Ed Geins was the son of Augusta and George Gein. His mother was a very religious woman who preached the bible daily to her children, and was very strict on them. Eddie’s father was an alcoholic and cause much tension in the home. Ed suffered from physical and psychological abuse from both parents, he was known for being quiet and to himself at school. If he tried to make friends, his mother would punish him, as a result, Eddie turned and began to show his dark side. When his mother died, he was the only one left on the family farm, and was then noticed for his “leather face” actions about a decade later. …show more content…
No one knew what he was doing on the family farm by himself until the disappearance of Bernice Worden. A lady that worked at a hardware store, cops suspected Ed as he was the last to see Bernice alive. The cops searched the farm to find her body hanging in the barn, decapitated. They continued to search the barn, finding trash cans made of human skull, chairs covered in human skin, and many other clothing belonging to women. Linking all the findings to his leather face mask, they realized his obsession was turning human skin into apparel all from young women, and arrested