Chapter Summary Of 'The House Of Evil'

The House of Evil is a narration of true crime story involving persistent torture, hunger of love, and killing of an innocent fifteen year old girl named Sylvia Likens. It reveals destruction as a source of fun, using words like “sex party,” enforcing abominable acts, blaming Sylvia for a fake pregnancy of sins, acting deaf and blind to the excruciating pain of the sufferer and not realizing what the sufferer is going through. She is said to have a “career of human ashtray.” The psychology of the persecutors and the persecuted Sylvia is a mystery. Gertrude Baniszewski, Richard Hobbs and her children are persecutors of Sylvia that are not ashamed of their crime. They are like Judah who forgot “how to blush” and were “not ashamed,” playing whore. Here, Sylvia is blamed and engraved with a tattoo as “prostitute” and “3” signifying their own indulgence in unashamed nudity …show more content…
The persecutors do not fear God or the law. They live in sheer darkness, a house that rules in darkness and hates the light, instruction, justice, mercy and love, rather romanticizing acts of committing sin, abomination and crime through evil ways, unaware that the fire in their bosoms that will burn their clothes, which in this case is though the Police, law and court.
Sylvia was a baptized Christian. The text points out “The Likens girls were regular in attending church.” This questions if Sylvia believed her suffering to be from God as Paula mentioned to her or, if God forsook Jesus on the cross, she was also forsaken? It echoes her lost hope in God, as a reporter once asked “Why didn’t Sylvia get up and leave”? Did Sylvia believe Christ as a redeemer or one whom she was to be like? Did she see a Christian to walk in the likeness of Christ