Sling Blade Character Analysis

In the movie “Sling Blade” a young boy named Karl Childers is released from the mental hospital where he has spent most of his adult life after murdering his mother and her boyfriend. This movie is very interesting it shows how a young boy that was raised in a unfit enviorment can commit crimes due to lack of knowledge. Although Karl wasn’t the smartest kid he sure knew how to fix a small engine. As the movie went on we soon learned that Karl was a changed person and there were a few people to give credit for his changes.

Karl was a boy who wasn’t treated like a animal as a child, he was raised in a shed. He was given food once a day and was feed out of a dog dish. The conditions the movie provided weren’t fit for a animal let alone a teenage boy. Karl never went to school or had any friends so as a young boy he mush have made himself company. As a young boy, I can’t imagine being
So instead of letting Frank go down the same road he did, he figured he would ruin his second chance at life. Karl claimed that the world was too big, due to his lack of exposure to the world. He felt that the mental hospital or jail was a better suit for himself. Although he really was doing well working at the small engine repair shop, he could fix anything.

As the movie goes on we find out more and more about Karl’s childhood. He tells us how when he was young his parents gave him a shoe box and told him to bury it. They told him not to open it, he said he looked inside. It was his baby brother, he had issues so he parents didn’t want him. We realize that a mental hospital maybe able to change some people, but others simply can’t avoid what the heads tell them is right. Karl did what he felt was right for that little boy Frank and his momma Linda. Some argue Doyle was the one who was being bullied, it’s clear to Karl that his life will end the sameway it