Charlesia Owens
Mrs. Adams
12th British Literature
12 February 2013
How to Nurture a Killer: Wanda Holloway In a quiet town madness breaks out in Channelview Texas. A mother (Wanda Holloway) was arrested for trying to hire her ex brother in law to murder a woman that was a mother to her daughter rivalry. Wanda Ann Webb was highly strung, hypersensitive to other people’s opinions about the fact she was pushing her daughter to do something that she actually wanted to do herself as a child. Based on the evidence it seems that overwhelming jealousy led Wanda to plot to kill a cheerleader’s mother. There were some factors helped to form Wanda personality. For example, during her childhood, it all begins with a dream: Holloway’s vision of her daughter as a cheerleader. It was a goal Holloway herself had never realized; her strict Baptist father had forbidden it. “She spent her days in solitary piano playing while she thought about her life as an adult. She hoped that she would have a career as the personal secretary to a corporate executive” (Hall 63). Wanda Holloway had a serious problem with the fact she loved Cheerleading. Yes, we do know that her father had forbidden, when she was a child she had her chance but her father considered the uniforms they wore was to skimpy (Hall 63). Wanda never tried out and so she became working on her reality dreams by try to pursue her dreams through her 14yr old daughter Shanna. Ann Lang, n.d. Web. 20 Feb. 2012. Many times, she had to think about the fact she wanted her child to become something she wanted to be when she was young. She wanted her daughter Shanna to be a cheerleader frenetically why? That is what we are trying to figure out because of the fact about being a mother and trying to pursue your dreams through that child may make them loose their mind because you are pressuring them into something they are