Dishonest Children: The Struggle Between Good And Evil

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The characterization of the idiot children in a horrific book highlighting the carnal evil desires of mankind and the twisted pleasure derived from inflicting pain upon others in order to establish a feeling of superiority and power over any and everything around you, creating a false sense of security to absolve the fact that in reality the surrounding world is a harsh and dangerous place filled with uncertainty and fear, perfectly demonstrates the ideal that in the modern world today where good and evil have become a gray mesh of opinion and belief and people struggle to defeat the undefined bad in their lives by overcoming with good, an individual often discovers after deep self-retrospection and reflection upon oneself that the real evil

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