Just about every detail of this guy’s life seems to have a disturbing twist to it.
The play by Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old English major, was submitted last year as part of a short story writing class. Entitled “Richard McBeef,” Cho’s bizarre play features a 13-year-old boy who accuses his stepfather of pedophilia and murdering his father. A copy of the killer’s play can be found below. The teenager talks of killing the older man and, at one point, the child’s mother brandishes a chain saw at the stepfather. The play ends with the man striking the child with “a deadly blow.”
The Smoking Gun has the play if you really want to read it.
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While most people have suggested that Johny the stepson was supposed to be the sympathetic character, I think McBeef was. McBeef is kind to his stepson and his stepson responds with anger and hostility. His wife automatically sides against him in their conflicts, etc.
Most people said that Sueng-Hui wanted us to relate to Johny, and that it was autobiographical (ie Sueng-hui had been abused). Others have suggested the opposite that McBeef was a stand in for Sueng-Hui and that, the main character finally responds to all the undeserved abuse, with violence. Maybe in a similair way to how Sueng-Hui himself responded to some percieved injustice with violence.
Previous poster, that’s quite frankly the most logical thing said about this media hyped story everyone is trying to build.