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But I would suggest, and actually Yaeger suggests this too,
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that the violence of southern culture goes way beyond just
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the violence of the culture of femininity, the culture of the southern woman.
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And so, let's look a little bit and extend the catalog.
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Another category of violence we have is murdered children,
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murdered and also just generally neglected or abandoned children.
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Enoch, if you'll recall,
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was traded by his father off to the Bible woman with the gravy hair;
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so that bespeaks the pain.
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And last time I read you a passage where Enoch begins to
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tell that story in this very pitiful way, getting no sympathy from Hazel.
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So, clearly he feels the abandonment from his father.