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Justice sought through injustice or a lack of understanding of cultures?

“Several dozen of the microscopic explosives known as cookie-cutters detonated in his bloodstream.” As I read that line, I kept asking myself  “Is this the end to Bud’s pathetic life? Is he really dead?” Initially despising Bud in the novel didn’t pay off. I wasn’t satisfied with the sentence. How come his sentence was so [...]