When looking at a criminal’s upbringing, 94% of them will have experienced some sort of criminal activity. In Aurora Morales’s short story Torturers, Aurora makes that connection when recounting her childhood memories of being tortured. Throughout her short autobiography, she makes several points on how it’s not the criminal that is to be entirely blamed, but also the environment they are raised in. She expresses this environment as not only being the social environment, but rather, the environment that the entire world creates. Realizing this important message, she expresses her concern in her short autobiography for the environment in which people are raised in, implying that mimicry of good or bad actions in today’s society is prevalent. Aurora’s description of her spiritual survival while being tortured coincides with today’s “persuasive” cultures, showing that people are willing to adapt to cultural norms regardless if those cultural norms are acceptable…show more content… The environment is not only the house, the people, and the social class that the person is in, but it is rather the whole world including all of the general populous and the media. Aurora says that the nation that we have created allows for many criminals to be produced due to the ignorance that the media gives the people. This, unfortunately, has caused multiple attacks on many nations such as New York, Paris, and New Jersey, showing that the cycle still continues to this day, and seeing that the media is only including summaries and the juicy details about the attacks, and not about prevention, this cycle will carry on for a long time. Until the world can start to realize that their actions are indirectly causing the creation of criminals and terrorist attacks, then this will continue until the world as we know it
