The Importance Of Violence In Shannon's Books

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In chapters 10 through 12 i've notice that Bones life has started to center around her violent tendencies towards her sexulity. Now that she is now entering he adolencence years, we see how her sexual habits have changed to involve more violent situations. For example, rather than masterbating to burning houses, she knows masterbates to people beating her with sticks or puting there hands up her cloths. These violent sexual fantasies are obviously getting more vivid and gruesome the older she gets. She also is getting more interested in violence in general. This is evident with how interested she is with Shannon's storys of violence and death. She listens to Shannon's stories with fancination, even befriending her because of her stories. I

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