Peter Ward's Confinement In Dream House

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That movie Dream House is a very educative for instruction to watch, it shows what the man named Will Atenten what was Peter Ward went through in his life; he was actually accused of the death of his family, and he was locked in confinement, was known by everyone as the guy who killed his own family which was all a huge misunderstanding of being accused.
He arrested and put in a mental health institution and soon was transferred into rehabilitation where he spent 5 years. In the rehabilitation center his name was Peter Ward that is what everyone knew him by but he was so convinced that he wasn’t Peter Ward because he believed that he didn’t kill his family due to that he always chewed off the named bracelets on his wrist disowning his identity, but there was a series of letters and numbers on the bracelet which read “W1-1L 8-10-10” which come to become the name Will Atenten. He was soon released and was free from his sentence because nobody was able to find any true evidence in the case of he was who killed his family.
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Whenever he entered his home everything was so real to him he had all feeling, hearing, and emotions as if they were with him in the household he was never able to let go of all that happened to him. The only other lady that spoke to him was his neighbor across the street who didn’t want any form of communication with him because she knew who he truly was not a murderer but a former

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