Jenifer is clearly a parasite. For instance it shows that Jenifer preys on others and eats both people and animals, the first thing that showed Jenifer is a parasite is when she first attacks Jim's wife and bites her. When Jenifer took a bite of her arm it showed she was very hungry and obviously wasn't a creature from this world, by doing this Jenifer shows shes a parasite that won't let anyone or anything stand in the way of her and Jim. Another incident was when Jenifer had eaten the kitten and then had thrown the body in boiling water, this showed that Jenifer is a parasite that will destroy anything that will try to harm her because the cat is a predator that is able to harm her, so she gets rid of him. In addition the author showed this girl was a parasite because when Jim had sent that guy over to go ahead and kidnap her, when Jim came home and opened his refrigerator a mans body came out with a lot of his guts hung out and all you see is Jenifer behind him staring at him because she knew Jim wouldn't say anything to her. Jenifer is able to be seen as a parasite because in the very beginning Jim states that " I should have known i was beginning to act irrationally " which means that through out the story Jenifer was able to get into Jim's mind and control everything that started to happen. Jenifer basically lives off her host which is Jim in order to get her food. Close to the last scene a child goes missing and as soon as Jim comes to see this he immediately goes home to find that Jenifer is eating a child's insides and drinking his blood, this scene is able to prove that Jenifer uses Jim to go ahead and get food, because she knows she has a house to go back too and eat her prey and she also knows Jim wont tell. This was the last thing to convince me that Jenifer is a parasite that uses Jim as her host. Jenifer stays with Jim because she needs him as her "host" because she needs to get her food but in the end when Jim is done hiding her and having many problems with her and wants to kill her Jenifer immediately causes an ironic twist to happen in the end. The same way that Jim saved Jenifer from the previous guy that was going to kill her, another random guy came and saved her when Jim was just about to get rid of her.
This does not make a clear argument for Jenifer being a parasite. Rework.
ReplyDelete8/10. Nice job on returning to idea of parasite throughout text.
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