Rag In The Bone Shop Cruelty

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Cruelty is something everyone has to go through in life. Cruelty is willfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it. People can be very cruel to others. In the novel the Rag in the Bone Shop, Robert Cormier shows such bad cruelty Alicia was giving. Alicia was an innocent seven year old girl. She was very good at jigsaw puzzles and she loved them. One day someone did something very cruel to her. They did something she did not deserve. She was lured away from her home or she wandered off. In this novel Alicia was killed. Alicia Bartlett “was found between the trunks of two overlapping maple trees in dense woods only five hundred yards away from her home. “No one knew who killed Alicia and why. But they did know

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