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* [[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!
* [[Reconstruction]]: ''[[Lord of the Flies]]'' greatly influenced how human nature, particularly [[Teens Are Monsters|young human nature]], was depicted in "serious" literature. Swarthout originally tried to go along with that trend, writing such stories as "Going to See George," in which teenagers beat a buffalo to death with tire irons and a baseball bat. This book was his attempt to [[Darkness
* [[Significant Monogram]]: John Cotton
* [[Suicide As Comedy]]: A timid, bullied little boy proclaims his intentions to commit suicide, and the rest of the characters mock him for it. It's [[Values Dissonance|a bit off-putting]], especially since we're told the boy has serious psychological issues.
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