Laura Palmer's Spirit

Laura is first described as a sweet girl who helps her community. She helps with Meals-on-Wheels and she also helps Audrey Horne’s brother. Her spirit seems to affect everyone in the community and seems to have some negative affect with everyone she had come in contact with. I am going to argue that Laura Palmer made sure when she was murdered that her spirit would still affect people in the small town of Twin Peaks. The moods and emotions from everyone who knew Laura Palmer was all different. No one in the community knew that she was living a good and evil side. Her boyfriend Bobby knew that she needed help but she seemed to have so much power over him that he did not help her. Even after she was murdered he was still be affected by her spirit. For example, at the funeral when James shows up there is a huge scene that disrupts the whole funeral service. Jim Jerome states in his article The Triumph of 'Twin Peaks "Laura was a model of innocence but linked to cocaine and X-rated singles network." This was not discovered untill she was murdered and when it was, her secret life seemed to have impacted many people.



Kimberly H.