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from the judge's story.
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That's who was killed by a lunatic and buried in the woods like a dog.
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The brother who's been killed by the kid, now the man, tried
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to kill the kid.
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So, we know that he has become a killer of men with that same taste
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for mindless violence that broods in the kid at the very
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start of the novel, and his younger brother,
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about twelve, inherits the dead boy's gun.
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So, we see that inheritance, yet, of violence, continuing.
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So, what appears to be a parable, what's told to the group of men
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by the judge in the form of a parable-- invoking the parables of the Bible
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which have spiritual, moral lessons to them or can