Salem's Lot

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Does the dog die?
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The hung dog was a character's pet.
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Does someone vomit?
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Is there pedophilia?
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- A teacher and a young man make sexual comments about one of the teacher's high school students.
- A character remembers 12 year old girls in Saigon being orally raped by soldiers.
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Does a horse die?
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It is threatened and eye decay is mentioned.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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- By her white-haired, aging teacher, no less.
- There is also a 17 year old mother of an 11 month old baby. I don't think the age of her husband is mentioned, but they were narried when she was heavily pregnant.
- A character remembers 12 year old girls in Saigon being orally raped by soldiers.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Does someone self harm?
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Is there body horror?
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In that people you once knew are transformed into callous, undead creatures. Kind of body snatchers style.
They visibly change. The changes are described a lot, such as them not bleeding when cut, feeling sickly and tired, and burning in sunlight.
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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- Aside from verbal abuse from a husband to his underage wife (and the child abuse mentioned in its section), it is mentioned that a teacher's former student was killed by her boyfriend when she tried to break up with him.
- A controlling, busybody mother gets into her adult daughter's personal affairs, attempts to manipulate her, slanders her partner, and shakes her. The daughter slaps her.
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Is a child abused?
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- A 17 year old mother throws a bottle at her baby's head, yells at him, picks him up roughly, and then punches him twice in the face, so hard that his eyes swell shut and bruise. Later, a priest remembers more of her abuse confessions against the baby. Later, she force feeds him and screams at him, after he's dead. It's very disturbing.
- A character remembers 12 year old girls in Saigon being orally raped by soldiers.
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Addiction
Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Is there addiction?
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Animal
Is there a dead animal?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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pooky
Many rats are killed
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Assault
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Dl2235
Sexual assault happens multiple times in the book. Some is implied, other instances are explicitly stated such as when a man is said to be r*ping his wife.
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Bodily Harm
Is there a hanging?
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Children
Does a kid die?
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There is a drawn out and descriptive funeral scene for one of them.
Later (chapter 8), there is a very disturbing scene when an abusive mother finds her baby dead (more in the child abuse section).
In the same chapter, but after that, there are descriptions of the first boys' parents grieving. It sounded realistic to me. Reminded me of real situations I've been in and around.
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Does someone cheat?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Mental Health
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Character's mother as backstory
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Prejudice
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Dl2235
Racial slurs are used as well as homophobic hate speech.
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Dl2235
F*ggot and it’s derivatives are frequently used throughout the book as well as q*eer in a derogatory way.
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Sex
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Both implied and explicit sexual scenes.
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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JamieF
A character shoots rats, chapter 3 section 10
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