Branded pt 1

1. His family couldn’t believe that their Gav did this so i would say they were in denial to the truth. They never thought that Gav that was always nice to them would ever be able to kill someone but when they found out he was in prison they didn’t hate him or anything they just missed him and still couldn’t believe that he had done what he did. (Page 11)

I think the reason that they had such a hard time to accept that he actually did it is because he had always been so nice to them and he wasn’t the kind of person that you think of when you think of a killer. (Page 11)

2. They were treated like they had taught him to kill and like they knew everything he did but didn’t care about it. (Page 12)

3. I think they react in this way because they want someone to blame for the murders and since Gav is in prison they can’t go and call him out so they blame the persons closest to him, his family. I also think they did it because they were obviously angry because someone maybe lost their daughter in the murders so they were maybe blinded by rage and just wanted a scapegoat. (Page 12 and forward)

4. The newspapers are part of the reason as to why Gav’s family are so exposed. The newspaper wants to write about the killers family because that is the big story right now but they don’t care about wether or not they ruin the family’s life or not, they just want money. Another part of the reason why Gav’s family becomes ’’guilty’’ is because the newspapers write about Gav and his family as one instead of them as two separate parts which makes people connect them together so when one part does something bad both did something bad. (Page 27)

5. I don’t think it is right that the family of a killer has to move because of something the killer did but then who am i to judge the person that lost their daughter. As for them moving i don’t think they had any other choice unless they wanted to be the bullied family in the neighbourhood. Because they were treated like murderers they had no other choice than to move and get new identities in my opinion. (Page 14-18)