Wasp Factory
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Murder Frank says that he had killed three young relatives by the time he was eight years old. He is quite dispassionate about these actions. He made each one look like an accident - a snake bite, the bomb and finally feeling that he ought to kill a female he engineered a giant kite to carry off a small girl, a 'half cousin'. |
| 'I killed little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general'. (6) |
| Frank fears that this might seem to be too much of a coincidence. |
| 'I am convinced that only my genuinely clear conscience let me convince the adults around me that I was totally innocent.' (6) (of the first two deaths). |
| Frank seems to be calculating and cold-blooded in his acts of violence. Eric on the contrary is impulsive and uncontrolled. Frank's acts are ritualized but Eric's are reckless. |
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