“Chainsaw Fingers”, by Paul Crenshaw, is a short fictional story that tells a disturbing tale of a veteran’s struggle to return to normal life. The main character, Sergeant Mills, suffers from a severe accident during his time serving in the war in Afghanistan; the accident causes him to lose the majority of one of his legs and he is given a prosthetic leg. After Mills returns home from war, he has trouble adjusting to his new prosthetic leg so he makes the conscience decision to shatter the bones in his working leg so that he may receive another prosthetic leg. His new legs cause him to run faster and jump higher than he could with the legs he was born with. Due to his new ability he gains popularity among the children of his neighborhood.…show more content… “They are drawn to you. To all of you. You have gone some place they do not understand.” (Crenshaw 320); the media draws the public to a celebrity. Once a person becomes a celebrity, the public is drawn to that person and it could be for a number of different reasons why. Becoming a celebrated person comes with its disadvantages; a celebrity is constantly harassed by the media’s need to create something entertaining. Like Mills was harassed by the children of the neighborhood, the public can attack a celebrity; no person truly cares about a celebrity's feelings, there is only a need for constant entertainment. The author also uses metaphors throughout the story which could be connected to celebrity and media.“All the walls had been cut away. Everyone could see inside now.” (Crenshaw 321) this quote from the story relates to celebrity seeing that metaphorically a celebrity’s walls are cut away. A celebrity can have virtually no privacy and no secrets; the media can pry into a celebrity’s life so that there can constantly be something to marvel at. Once you are different or celebrated in a way people can not understand, you become something everyone has to see therefore you go under unceasing
