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We Need to Talk About Kevin, written before Ms. Waldman's inflammatory essay, explores this issue. Franklin thinks Eva doesn't love him with his entire heart, so when Kevin comes along, Franklin loves Kevin with 99.9% of his, leaving only that .1% for Eva.
We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver, published by Serpent's Tail, about a fictional school massacre. It is written from the first person perspective of the teenage killer's mother, Eva Khatchadourian, and documents her attempt to come to terms with her son Kevin and the murders he committed, as told in a series of letters from Eva to her husband.
We need to talk about Kevin (24 Posts) Add message. I think an interesting question is whether, even if Eve's behaviour had caused Kevin's behaviour, she was to blame for it. He wasn't abused or neglected; he was very intelligent and clearly knew right from wrong.. We really don't need to talk about Kevin. Dull, insipid, predictable.
Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin is a novel about post-natal depression. It shows motherhood as a painful experience, describing the anguish and frustration of a mother trying to form a bond with her baby, and the tragic consequences of this failure in the infant-mother bond.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin Quotes Showing 1-30 of 318 “.You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”.