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** [[spoiler: Really, FridgeHorror and Tearjerker kicks in when you realize the baby wasn’t even a week old when it died, it lived a sad life being abandoned by its (sibling) parents, only to be picked up by random strangers including a filthy hobo and a sadistic group of murderers, who proceeded to then torture and mutilate it before slitting its throat. The thought that an innocent little baby who didn’t even ask to be born could go through so many horrific incidents in LESS THAN A DAY, and it didn’t even get to die peacefully or enjoy a second of the time it was alive. The worst part is, events similar to this happen every day all around the world.]]
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** [[spoiler: Really, FridgeHorror and Tearjerker kicks in when you realize the baby wasn’t even a week old when it died, it lived a sad life being abandoned in the woods by its (sibling) parents, parents almost immediately after it was born, only to be picked up by random strangers including a filthy hobo and a sadistic group of murderers, who proceeded to then torture and mutilate it before slitting its throat. The thought that an innocent little baby who didn’t even ask to be born could go through so many horrific incidents in LESS THAN A DAY, and it didn’t even get to die peacefully or enjoy a second of the time it was alive. The worst part is, events similar to this happen every day all around the world.]]
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** [[spoiler: Really, FridgeHorror and Tearjerker kicks in when you realize the baby wasn’t even a week old when it died, it lived a sad life being abandoned by its (sibling) parents, only to be picked up by random strangers including a filthy hobo and a sadistic group of murderers, who proceeded to then torture and mutilate it before slitting its throat. The thought that an innocent little baby who didn’t even ask to be born could go through so many horrific incidents in LESS THAN A DAY, and it didn’t even get to die peacefully or enjoy a second of the time it was alive. The worst part is, events similar to this happen every day all around the world.]]
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** [[spoiler: The brutal torture and murder of the baby at the end. By the time Culla finds it, the strangers (or perhaps even the tinker, it’s never confirmed) have gouged its eye out and left a long, jagged burn mark on its side. He begs them to return the baby to Rinthy, but his efforts are in vain, as they slash the baby’s throat and proceed to eat it.]]
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* HarsherInHindsight: One character has this to say: "I've seen the meanness of humans till I don't know why god ain't put out the sun and gone away." In one of Creator/CormacMcCarthy's [[Literature/TheRoad later books]], pretty much exactly that happens.
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* NightmareFuel: Many parts from the book in general are written like scenes out of a horror movie. Of note is when the strangers pay a visit to the man that took Culla in, and the bearded one guts him with [[SlasherSmile a wide grin on his face]].
* TheWoobie: Poor Rinthy. She spends the better part of a year searching the countryside for her baby, [[spoiler:and in the end, she only finds its mutilated, half-eaten corpse]].
* TheWoobie: Poor Rinthy. She spends the better part of a year searching the countryside for her baby, [[spoiler:and in the end, she only finds its mutilated, half-eaten corpse]].
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** Many parts from the book in general are written like scenes out of a horror movie. Of note is when the strangers pay a visit to the man that took Culla in, and the bearded one guts him with [[SlasherSmile a wide grin on his face]].
** The strangers in general, really. They laid out the prototype for [[Literature/BloodMeridian Judge Holden]] and [[Literature/NoCountryForOldMen Anton Chigurh]], and to a lesser extent, the cannibals in ''Literature/TheRoad''. Similarly to the former two, there's something that just seems [[AmbiguouslyHuman really off and inhuman about them]], maybe even more explicitly so. Culla seems to be all too aware of that fact when he asks them ''what'' they are.
** While in one of the towns looking for a place to stay, Rinthy finds corpses hanging from a tree.
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** Many parts from the book in general are written like scenes out of a horror movie. Of note is when the strangers pay a visit to the man that took Culla in, and the bearded one guts him with [[SlasherSmile a wide grin on his face]].
** The strangers in general, really. They laid out the prototype for [[Literature/BloodMeridian Judge Holden]] and [[Literature/NoCountryForOldMen Anton Chigurh]], and to a lesser extent, the cannibals in ''Literature/TheRoad''. Similarly to the former two, there's something that just seems [[AmbiguouslyHuman really off and inhuman about them]], maybe even more explicitly so. Culla seems to be all too aware of that fact when he asks them ''what'' they are.
** While in one of the towns looking for a place to stay, Rinthy finds corpses hanging from a tree.
* TheWoobie: Poor Rinthy. She spends the better part of a year searching the countryside for her baby,
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* NightmareFuel: Boy howdy...
** Rinthy finding strung-up corpsesMany parts from the book in general are written like scenes out of a horror movie. Of note is when the strangers pay a visit to the man that took Culla in, and the bearded one guts him with [[SlasherSmile a wide grin on his face]].
* TheWoobie: Poor Rinthy. She spends the better part of a year searching the countryside for her baby, [[spoiler:and in thetrees in town.
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* CompleteMonster: The [[ForTheEvulz mysterious trio of terrifying and elusive strangers]] scourge the Appalachian countryside, [[SerialKiller killing people at will]]. Slaughtering their way from one end of the community to the next, the three fixate on Culla, [[FrameUp framing him for murder]] and killing those who come into contact with him, even tricking Culla into partaking in cannibalism. After killing many people, the trio torture and murder a tinker who rescued the baby of Culla and his sister Rinthy before torturing the [[WouldHurtAChild baby]], murdering and possibly [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalizing]] it as well.
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* CompleteMonster: The [[ForTheEvulz mysterious trio of terrifying and elusive strangers]] scourge the Appalachian countryside, [[SerialKiller killing people at will]]. Slaughtering their way from one end of the community to the next, the three fixate on Culla, [[FrameUp framing him for murder]] and killing those who come into contact with him, even tricking Culla into partaking in cannibalism. After killing many people, the trio torture and murder a tinker who rescued the baby of Culla and his sister Rinthy before torturing the [[WouldHurtAChild baby]], murdering and possibly [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalizing]] it as well.well.
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** The brutal torture and murder of the baby at the end.
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* CompleteMonster: The [[ForTheEvulz mysterious trio of terrifying and elusive strangers strangers]] scourge the Appalachian countryside, [[SerialKiller killing people at will]]. Slaughtering their way from one end of the community to the next, the three fixate on Culla, [[FrameUp framing him for murder]] and killing those who come into contact with him, even forcing tricking Culla to partake into partaking in cannibalism. By the end of the novel, having killed After killing many people, the trio even torture and murder a tinker who rescued the baby of Culla and his sister Rinthy before torturing the [[WouldHurtAChild baby]], murdering and possibly [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalizing]] it as well.
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* CompleteMonster: The mysterious trio of terrifying and elusive strangers scourge the Appalachian countryside, [[SerialKiller killing people at will]]. Slaughtering their way from one end of the community to the next, the three fixate on Culla, [[FrameUp framing him for murder]] and killing those who come into contact with him, even forcing Culla to partake in cannibalism. By the end of the novel, having killed many people, the trio even torture and murder a tinker who rescued the baby of Culla and his sister Rinthy before torturing the [[WouldHurtAChild baby]], murdering and cannibalizing [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalizing]] it as well.
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