<p><i>Vicious Children and Other
Stories</i> contains four stories, each concerned in
their own way with boyhood, friendship, masculinity, and alienation. <i>Vicious
Children</i> is a novella that follows two brothers, Jesse and Danny, as they
explore a time in which their roles in their community and family are changing.
In “What Else Are We Going to Do With Them?” a group of young boys fight betta
fish to the death, leaving one of the boys, Josh, questioning his enjoyment of
the fight. “Gash” deals with the main character, Adam’s, memory of a traumatic
event in contrast to the lighthearted way he and his family tell the story in
the present. Finally “Don’t You Have a Name?” follows Zach, a content moderator
for a social media platform, who finds that, although he excels at the job, it
comes at the cost of his mental health.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:purdue.edu/oai:figshare.com:article/12251891 |
| Date | 06 May 2020 |
| Creators | Aaron Dell (8802530) |
| Source Sets | Purdue University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis |
| Rights | CC BY 4.0 |
| Relation | https://figshare.com/articles/Vicious_Children_and_Other_Stories/12251891 |
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