Highway Of Lost Girls Analysis
In the essay “Highway of Lost Girls” by Vanessa Veselka, she talks about her past events that took place when she was a runaway teenager and the time she came face to face with a serial killer. She supported her claim by using anecdotes to prove that her story is true. It was first published in The GQ magazine, New York, October 24, 2012. She is a novelist, union organizer, and author, which gives her the authority to write on this subject. She wrote this essay for the general public to read about her life story and to make money for it. She explained the situation she faces throughout her teenage life and the time she hitched a ride from Robert Ben Rhoades, who was later convicted as a serial killer. She uses strong tones to grab her reader’s
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But he didn’t get charged for the crime because Lisa was unable to provide the information about what really happen since her appearance and language structures did not seem to be trustworthy. “I had a vision of Lisa Pennal as a truck-stop Kali roaming the back lots in her denim skirt and fuzzy slippers with an ozone hole for a halo. She would be easy to dismiss. Rhoades intentionally chose women who lack credibility” (Veselka 49). But what put him away for life was that he raped and killed fourteen-year-old Regina Walters and her boyfriend Ricky Jones. Vanessa went on by describing the way he killed her, “Rhoades kept Regina for at least two weeks. He shaved her head and pubic hair, pierced her with fishing hooks, dressed her up in a black dress and heels, and photographed her in moments of terror, then killed her with a garrote made of baling wire, leaving her one-hundred-pound body to decompose in a barn in Illinois off Interstate 70.” (Veselka 40). Throughout the story, the reader learned that Rhoades what was a manipulative man who goes around putting his victims under control, he felt that his victim will never when he does that. But one of his victims (Shana Holts) was able to get away when he did that. He thought that he had manipulated enough to leave her only, but he was wrong. He stated to her “Sit there and be a good girl,” (Veselka 46) but Holts had been on the streets for a
But he didn’t get charged for the crime because Lisa was unable to provide the information about what really happen since her appearance and language structures did not seem to be trustworthy. “I had a vision of Lisa Pennal as a truck-stop Kali roaming the back lots in her denim skirt and fuzzy slippers with an ozone hole for a halo. She would be easy to dismiss. Rhoades intentionally chose women who lack credibility” (Veselka 49). But what put him away for life was that he raped and killed fourteen-year-old Regina Walters and her boyfriend Ricky Jones. Vanessa went on by describing the way he killed her, “Rhoades kept Regina for at least two weeks. He shaved her head and pubic hair, pierced her with fishing hooks, dressed her up in a black dress and heels, and photographed her in moments of terror, then killed her with a garrote made of baling wire, leaving her one-hundred-pound body to decompose in a barn in Illinois off Interstate 70.” (Veselka 40). Throughout the story, the reader learned that Rhoades what was a manipulative man who goes around putting his victims under control, he felt that his victim will never when he does that. But one of his victims (Shana Holts) was able to get away when he did that. He thought that he had manipulated enough to leave her only, but he was wrong. He stated to her “Sit there and be a good girl,” (Veselka 46) but Holts had been on the streets for a