What Happened To Brandon Analysis
Regina Oliver
Dr. Chata
Comp 1
9/10/10
What Happened to Brandon?
What happened to Brandon? (The disappearance of the teen has sparked an outcry over a video game addiction) was written by Colin Campbell and Jonathon Gatehouse and posted on October 30, 2008. The article starts off with descriptive imagery of some sort of storm. The most disturbing line out of the first paragraph was, “ This is the spot where Brandon Crisp, a slight 15-year-old with dirty blonde hair and green eyes dropped his bike this place Thanksgiving Monday evening, it started with a walking and seemingly vanished into the chilly air.” This introduction was an attention getter and goes back to earlier that day before all of this stuff began. His parents threatened to take away his Xbox for good and Brandon ran away. Brandon was once a normal kid with good grades, a great brother, and even was an AAA goalie. But, this all changed, when he got hooked on playing The Call of Duty 4 on Xbox live with a list over 200 people that he played with. Brandon’s parents tried to work out a schedule for which he could play the game but it didn’t work for very long. On the Thursday before Thanksgiving, Brandon decided to skip school. His parents took the Xbox out of the house. He …show more content…
parents stated that they didn’t know how much they game meant to Brandon, it was his life, his identity. Police are still searching for him in near by fields; the question hangs heavier what happened to Brandon Crisp. These video games and Internet connection we now have are becoming fatal, and people are even losing their lives over it.
You can now be a video game addict and ever suffer from withdrawal. Experts are saying a void unplugging patients from their video games because of safety issues. Withdrawal might lead to aggressive anger, and may even go as far as the Columbine High School massacre. For example, a 40-year-old man from London got hooked on games and his life started to crash right in front of him. From the stress he had taken up a work to piling up over 25,000 dollars in credit card expenses, he had decided enough was enough and tried to commit suicide by taking some pills but failed, he not is in a local psychiatric
facility. People are starting to replace their own families for their games. Some people are blaming Brandon’s parents for not putting a stop to the obsession before it had gotten too far. His mom said that he was a wonderful son and that he was getting older and she felt like he deserved a little freedom. The industry has started putting restrictions for games to regulate minor’s access to A O rated games. With these rating the industry figured this would help. David Walsh president and fonder of the National Institute on Media and the Family states that he is discouraged by video gamming companies. These companies aren’t really trying to help fix these issues because of becoming a liability. Instead, they just hope the problems go away and fix themselves. Some people are really over board with this video game addiction and see themselves as professionals and win 1,000’s of dollars in tournaments. Brandon’s dad said he will always wonder what happened to his son Brandon, if he went with some people he met online, maybe he got in a mix up with the wrong kind of people. But one thing Mr. Crisp knows for certain is that he wants all parents to be aware of this issue and to let people know these kinds of things are real and can happen to anybody.
Dr. Chata
Comp 1
9/10/10
What Happened to Brandon?
What happened to Brandon? (The disappearance of the teen has sparked an outcry over a video game addiction) was written by Colin Campbell and Jonathon Gatehouse and posted on October 30, 2008. The article starts off with descriptive imagery of some sort of storm. The most disturbing line out of the first paragraph was, “ This is the spot where Brandon Crisp, a slight 15-year-old with dirty blonde hair and green eyes dropped his bike this place Thanksgiving Monday evening, it started with a walking and seemingly vanished into the chilly air.” This introduction was an attention getter and goes back to earlier that day before all of this stuff began. His parents threatened to take away his Xbox for good and Brandon ran away. Brandon was once a normal kid with good grades, a great brother, and even was an AAA goalie. But, this all changed, when he got hooked on playing The Call of Duty 4 on Xbox live with a list over 200 people that he played with. Brandon’s parents tried to work out a schedule for which he could play the game but it didn’t work for very long. On the Thursday before Thanksgiving, Brandon decided to skip school. His parents took the Xbox out of the house. He …show more content…
parents stated that they didn’t know how much they game meant to Brandon, it was his life, his identity. Police are still searching for him in near by fields; the question hangs heavier what happened to Brandon Crisp. These video games and Internet connection we now have are becoming fatal, and people are even losing their lives over it.
You can now be a video game addict and ever suffer from withdrawal. Experts are saying a void unplugging patients from their video games because of safety issues. Withdrawal might lead to aggressive anger, and may even go as far as the Columbine High School massacre. For example, a 40-year-old man from London got hooked on games and his life started to crash right in front of him. From the stress he had taken up a work to piling up over 25,000 dollars in credit card expenses, he had decided enough was enough and tried to commit suicide by taking some pills but failed, he not is in a local psychiatric
facility. People are starting to replace their own families for their games. Some people are blaming Brandon’s parents for not putting a stop to the obsession before it had gotten too far. His mom said that he was a wonderful son and that he was getting older and she felt like he deserved a little freedom. The industry has started putting restrictions for games to regulate minor’s access to A O rated games. With these rating the industry figured this would help. David Walsh president and fonder of the National Institute on Media and the Family states that he is discouraged by video gamming companies. These companies aren’t really trying to help fix these issues because of becoming a liability. Instead, they just hope the problems go away and fix themselves. Some people are really over board with this video game addiction and see themselves as professionals and win 1,000’s of dollars in tournaments. Brandon’s dad said he will always wonder what happened to his son Brandon, if he went with some people he met online, maybe he got in a mix up with the wrong kind of people. But one thing Mr. Crisp knows for certain is that he wants all parents to be aware of this issue and to let people know these kinds of things are real and can happen to anybody.