Second Class

After reading "Jabberwocky", I'm not really sure why prof told us it was hard to understand. Seemed pretty simple, there's a monster named Jabberwock and he has a bird named Jubjub and the Bandersnatch as sidekicks, and the kid takes them out. I read the explanation after that and I was right.

"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been", "The Demon Lover", and "The Pied Piper Of Tucson" seemed all related somehow, especially "Where" and "Pied". Notice how I really shortened those titles down the second time around. They are both basically the same story, with minor changes in each. "Pied" seems to be the real story about a serial killer named Charles Shmid during the '60's and "Where" is a simple retelling of this news story. Both tell the tale of a man who lures women with his sweet talk, and the women realize that something is wrong with the man. This is also the story of "The Demon Lover", where a woman meets a man who wants to show her a different lifestyle, and she eventually realizes that it is the devil. He then breaks the ship in half and kills her. Interesting poem.

All three stories are retellings of a single archetype. An archetype that is familiar to us - the dangerous stranger who picks up women (possibly really dumb women?) and the women later realize they weren't dealing with a troublesome yet attractive man, but with the embodiment of evil.