Does the dog die?
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Confessions: A Novel
Book • 2008 • Mystery
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A character posts a dead dog on his personal website to intimidate some of the visitors
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Are animals abused?
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Animal torture mentioned, but not described
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Is there a dead animal?
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Does someone vomit?
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Naoki's mother vomits after hearing her son say he has AIDS
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A character attempts to blow himself and his classmates up. His bomb is removed without his knowledge
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Is there domestic violence?
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A character attempts to blow himself and his classmates up. His bomb is removed without his knowledge
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A character cuts open his hands to wipe blood on products in a store
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Is there body horror?
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A character goes for weeks without bathing, and the descriptions of the level of filth he's living in could be disturbing
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Is there sexual content?
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Mentions of pornography
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Is there blood/gore?
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Several times throughout
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In the first chapter, a character discusses a trans woman and keeps using he/him pronouns when referring to her
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Is there decapitation?
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Passing mentions of a recent crime involving decapitation
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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HIV/AIDS stigma is a key theme in the book
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Is there hate speech?
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Sexist hate speech against an unmarried single mother, including from other women
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Is someone drugged?
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A mother cuts her son's hair while he's asleep. In fact, she gives him a sleeping pill without his knowledge in order to do this.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Naoki ends up in a mental hospital after people assume he killed his mother
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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The chapter from Shuya’s point of view shows how he plans to blow himself and his classmates up at school
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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A character strangles another to death
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Is someone held under water?
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No, but someone is dropped into water while struggling to gain consciousness and drowns
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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A character is dismissive of an unnamed trans woman who never appears in the narrative. She seems to think that this person transitioned to escape some consequence
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Does someone drown?
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A young child called Manami drowns
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Shuya inadvertently kills his mother
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Does a parent die?
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Naoki's mom and Shuya's mom, as well as the "Lunacy girl" killing her parents
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Speculation that a murderer in the news has “split personalities”
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is electro-therapy used?
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A character uses electrocution to hurt one person and kill another (but he doesn’t succeed in the latter; he renders her unconscious
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Does a family member die?
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Is someone choked?
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A character strangles another to death
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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A character refuses to go to school, spending most of his time in his bedroom
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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A peripheral character who's a sibling to one of the main characters is pregnant and later has a miscarriage. Shuya finds out that his mother is pregnant and married.
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Is religion discussed?
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Very little
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Some swearing
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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A child drowns in a swimming pool
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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The protagonist uses the second person a lot (you, yours, etc), referring to the class of children she is addressing
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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The protagonist’s husband has HIV
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Is there copaganda?
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The protagonist has staunchly carceral beliefs
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A child who’s implied to have low/no empathy loves his mother despite her physically and verbally abusing him. He believes he and she are smart and the rest of the world is stupid, meaning that the latter’s lives are inferior
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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A child who’s implied to have low/no empathy loves his mother despite her physically and verbally abusing him.
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Shuya and Naoki
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is someone terminally ill?
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The protagonist’s husband has HIV
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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A mother cuts her son's hair while he's asleep. In fact, she gives him a sleeping pill without his knowledge in order to do this.
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Abandonment
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Bodily Harm
Does someone asphyxiate?
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A character strangles another to death
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Children
Does a kid die?
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The protagonist’s daughter was found dead before the events of the book. There is mention of children being victims of murder
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