Topic- Charles Manson Title- Never Learn Not to Love Thesis- On August 9, 1969, Charles Manson and his “family” commit their first crime. Although Manson himself does not do the actual physical harm he sends four of his trusty followers to kill. What led up to this? Why in such a gruesome way? There was a lot of long term reasons he started this cult, one is his family portrayed him as a quite unhappy person, also he took pity on people that were damaged emotionally, and he was very arrogant and egotistical. Manson’s unhappiness is most likely what led to wanting to help other people feel senseless and less alone. In a report his cousin stated, “Manson has lied about everything in his childhood, every opportunity that he's had”. She later …show more content…
Manson found people who came from broken homes or were just at a rough period in their life and fed them compliments. In an interview Krenwinkel states, “ “I was an empty shell of a person that was filled up with Manson rhetoric.””2 When he gave speeches he gave each and every member of this group LSD, or Marijuana, so they could take in what he said without thinking. Manson also states, “.. and when i got out (of prison) your children all came to me because they never had anyone to tell them the truth.”. When he met these young women he would tell them everything they thought they weren’t. He called them beautiful and told them that nothing was their fault their parents were just irrational. Mixed with the mind manipulation and drugs he ultimately got them to kill for him. Manson thought of himself as god and the devil. He thought of himself so highly once he said, “ I’m Jesus Christ whether you want to accept it or not.” The cults ratio of women to men was 4:1 because Manson said women were only for mens needs. Every person that entered his following got the ego sucked out of them and Charlie took that and kept it for himself. When he first got convicted of these murders he used the fact he never touched any of the victims and never attempted to. He uses these young women that need a figure in their life and turns them into a killing