Bless the Beasts And Children: Difference between revisions

 

* [[All Psychology Is Freudian]]: The book makes frequent references to Freudian concepts like the id and the ego.

* [[Nightmare Sequence]]: The book begins with Cotton dreaming that he and the other kids are buffalo, being hunted and shot by their parents.

* [[Piranha Problem]]: One character makes a point by telling the story of a friend and his pet piranha, a vaguely charming beastie with a fondness for live goldfish. The friend was unable to keep the piranha, so he put it in a goldfish pond to spend the rest of its days feeding happily. The piranha got greedy, "turned into a goldfish gourmet," and lived entirely on the bellies of the goldfish (the tastiest part, apparently.) Then the pond's owners noticed all the belly-less goldfish floating at the top of the pond, moved the survivors to another pond, and dumped in poison. Moral: if you start something (say, eating a goldfish), better finish the job!