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"Are these supposed to rend our hearts?"
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I don't think we're meant to feel much for Hoover Shoats here.
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He is a figure of critique.
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He's a figure of satire.
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He's the charlatan preacher.
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We're certainly not meant to identify with him or to sympathize with him,
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but here you can't help but thinking about someone getting
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their thumb smashed in a door.
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And then it gets more intense of course on page 206,
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and that's 204 in this edition, when Hazel commits murder.
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So here we have the murder scene:
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"Take off that suit," Hazel shouted