Thursday, February 27, 2020

Urban Legends

1. The urban legend, " call inside your home", is about a girl that is babysitting 2 children. She then receives threatening calls on her phone from an anonymous number. She doesn't know who the caller is. The caller then explains details about the house and where the children are in that moment. The babysitter realizes that the calls are coming from inside her house. She ran all through the house trying to find out who was in there. But, she couldn't find him. When she goes to check up on the children, she finds them slaughtered in the bed.
2. It is relevant today because this could happen to anybody. Babysitting is a common job for teens to have nowadays. The urban legend is trying to tell us that that we need to protect our children. That is the moral of the story.  Protect whoever you are watching at all times. Unfortunately, in this urban legend, the girl could not protect the children she was watching. Readers are interested in this story because it is one of the more modern urban legends. Break-ins happen on a day to day basis to anyone. It is not necessarily random, but the situation can happen. This urban legend really hits home for me because I babysit kids. As a babysitter, the children come first. The fact that this woman could not protect the children is heartbreaking. It teaches readers to lock the doors, take safety precautions for everyone in the house.