Natasha Preston's The Cellar

The book The Cellar by Natasha Preston is an interesting thriller that accurately depicts the goals of insane people. In the book, a thirty-year-old man named Colin Brown, who suffered from schizophrenia, kidnapped multiple girls. He went as far as changing their names to better fit how he viewed them. He wanted the perfect family, and he had plans to make that dream come true. The antagonist, Colin Brown, is heavily motivated by his goals. Colin kidnapped four girls to fit his dream of having the perfect family. The author writes, “Nature is beautiful and clean. I think that’s why he’s doing all this.’ She waved her hand around, gesturing to the prison we were trapped in. ‘This is his idea of a perfect, pure family.’” (Preston, 97) and “He really

This supports my premise because the quote explains how he kidnapped someone to make them part of a perfect family. Colin is motivated by his goals of having a family and he shows this by committing crimes due to his obsession with having a perfect family. Colin believed that women who cheated were better off dead and that they made the world impure. The author states, “No, I didn’t think so.”. Do you think she deserves the humiliation of her husband sleeping around?” (Preston, 213) and “Christy, death is your punishment. There has to be punishment or lessons will never be learned and society will never improve” (Preston, 214). This supports my premise because the quote used was when Colin was narrating how he had killed a woman for her acts and how she had used somebody's infidelity to get her way with a man she wanted. Colin believes that impure women should be punished, resulting in him believing that his actions are justified. Colin killed multiple people to make sure he would always have his perfect ending. According to the author, “I’ve told you, they want to split us up. Now, I need you all to be good