Book 3 Listicle

Teddy Daniels is the resilient man who is tasked with traveling to Shutter Island home of Ashecliffe Mental Hospital. Extra emphasis on the word "Mental" in Mental Hospital. He is in search of a lost patient, Rachel Solando, who just so happens to not only be allegedly insane but also a murder. But wait there's more! Shutter Island is crawling with psycho paths, mystery, and overall corrupt people.

1. IT'S A MENTAL FACILITY
In case you didn't hear me the first time. Shutter Island is home to the infamous Ashecliffe Mental Hospital. So right off the bat Shutter Island shouldn't be on your shortlist of places to go on vacation. But more than that some people don't even know about it."Heard much about this place?' 'A mental hospital that's about all i know. ‘For the criminally insane" Emphasis on Criminally insane. The island is off the radar making this place is anything more dangerous.



2. KILLERS AND CRAZY PEOPLE EVERYWHERE
As I told you before Teddy is in search of the lost patient. Who is a murderer and crazy person. But she's the best kind of crazy person. The kind that doesn't know she's crazy, “She smiled darkly and shook her head. I'm not crazy. I'm not. Of course what else would a crazy person claim." but keep in mind she is not the only patient that dwells on these treacherous shores. There are dozens of murderers and psychopaths on this island. No amount of treatment can help these people,"...For the most docile patients we use psychosurgery. It doesn't always work."




3. THERE IS NO GOING BACK

Let's say by chance you somehow manage to pull off the best Houdini trick of all time and escape the facility. Where would you even go? Even when the secret patient escaped no one believed she would make it off the island, "Where's she going to go? She's going to swim home? “There is no chance of you being able to escape the island unless you made a boat from scratch. Then you would have to know how to get back to land, have food and water, and know how to work a boat.

4. IT MAKES PEOPLE CRAZY

Just look at the story's very own main character Teddy Daniels. It's obvious that his little trip to Crazy Island made him crazy as well. A good example of this is at the end of the story when he asks, “Is it better to live as a monster or die as a good man?" I thought about this question and I came to the conclusion that Teddy actually knows that he is insane and might be contemplating on whether or not his life is worth living.

5. CRAZY DOCTORS You can't have a hospital without doctors. But in this case I think you would be better off without them. One thing you may not know about the very confusing ending is that Teddy Daniels isn't Teddy Daniels at all! It was just a made up alias that the doctors made up so the real character Andrew Laeddis could get on with his life. Now back to my point a regular doctor would have HELPED the patient with his problems but not these ones they are the problem. Teddy obviously doesn't know who he is at the beginning as he asks, "Who is Andrew Laeddis?" And although he figures out who he is these doctors are definitely not people you would want to run into on vacation.

Judging by this list, I would suggest going to somewhere safer for your summer vacation, maybe the Bahamas?