The Glass Castle

Book • 2005 • Biography  

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Does the dog die?
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A dog dying after a snake bite is mentioned in passing
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Unanswered Triggers
Does a pet die?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Is there bestiality?
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Is an animal sad?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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Is there domestic violence?
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RachelSchweighardt
Throughout the entire movie the parents gaslight one another and the children.
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Is a child abused?
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Gaslighting and sexual abuse
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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All throughout the movie the father abuses alcohol and has to tie himself to the bed to stop. But ultimately starts back up again.
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Animal
Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Are animals abused?
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A cat is thrown out the window of a moving car, cats are drowned in a sack.

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Is there a dead animal?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there snakes?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
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Mick
A child sexually assaults another child. A father arranges for a man to attempt to sexually assault his daughter. A teen girl's boss rubs his crotch against her backside.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Anonymous
A girl’s father throws her into deep water continuously, despite her not knowing how to swim and struggling to breathe.
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RachelSchweighardt
Not burned alive but a child is cooking and accidentally sets herself on fire. She is severely burned but lives and is okay
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Is someone buried alive?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there a hanging?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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The fiance gets hit and alludes to his nose being broken
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ATW8
It mentions that one of the narrator’s siblings is born having a seizure, and they continue to have seizures the first year of their life, before they suddenly stop.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Children
Does a kid die?
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
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Does a parent die?
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Anonymous
The father has a heart attack and dies towards the end
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Does someone cheat?
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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Is someone possessed?
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Are there ghosts?
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Are there clowns?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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A character vomits after getting whipped
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Does someone spit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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RachelSchweighardt
In the beginning a little girl is hospitalized
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone self harm?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
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Amanita
Only as daydreams wishing that difference could have led to avoidance of trauma
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Lack of food due to poverty
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Pregnancy
Is there childbirth?
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mention of a birth in passing
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Are there abortions?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Is there hate speech?
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A main character is bullied by being called poor, ugly, and dirty. N****r is used multiple times by a grandmother.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there n-words?
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Sex
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Lots, and violent
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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A grandmother assaults her grandson by feeling his crotch through his pants despite his protests. When his father is informed, he near hysterically says that nothing occurred and that he doesn’t want to hear another word, alluding to he himself being abused by his mother.
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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She isn’t hit, but the pregnant mother is intentionally driven at menacingly as she tries to flee before being thrown back into the car
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Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Is there blood/gore?
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RachelSchweighardt
Jeanette stitches up her father's wound with a needle and thread
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Does someone drown?
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RachelSchweighardt
Dad throws the little girl in the pool to teach her to swim when she doesnt know how
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Is there gun violence?
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