Does the dog die?
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The Glass Castle
Book • 2005 • Biography
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Cosmicvultch
A dog dying after a snake bite is mentioned in passing
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StarsUnivers
Technically no but also kind of. She does get sexually harassed by a boy her age and he taunts her like "I raped you!" And she does go home to look it up in a dictionary.
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Abuse
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone gaslighted?
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RachelSchweighardt
Throughout the entire movie the parents gaslight one another and the children.
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RachelSchweighardt
Gaslighting and sexual abuse
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Addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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RachelSchweighardt
All throughout the movie the father abuses alcohol and has to tie himself to the bed to stop. But ultimately starts back up again.
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Animal
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Are animals abused?
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Cosmicvultch
A cat is thrown out the window of a moving car, cats are drowned in a sack.
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Assault
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Mick
A child sexually assaults another child. A father arranges for a man to attempt to sexually assault his daughter. A teen girl's boss rubs his crotch against her backside.
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Bodily Harm
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Anonymous
A girl’s father throws her into deep water continuously, despite her not knowing how to swim and struggling to breathe.
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Is someone burned alive?
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RachelSchweighardt
Not burned alive but a child is cooking and accidentally sets herself on fire. She is severely burned but lives and is okay
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Does someone break a bone?
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RachelSchweighardt
The fiance gets hit and alludes to his nose being broken
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Does someone have a seizure?
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ATW8
It mentions that one of the narrator’s siblings is born having a seizure, and they continue to have seizures the first year of their life, before they suddenly stop.
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Anonymous
The father has a heart attack and dies towards the end
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Fear
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Anonymous
A character vomits after getting whipped
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Medical
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Is there a hospital scene?
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RachelSchweighardt
In the beginning a little girl is hospitalized
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Mental Health
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Amanita
Only as daydreams wishing that difference could have led to avoidance of trauma
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Amanita
Lack of food due to poverty
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Noxious
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Pregnancy
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Is there childbirth?
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Amanita
mention of a birth in passing
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Prejudice
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Is there hate speech?
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Anonymous
A main character is bullied by being called poor, ugly, and dirty. N****r is used multiple times by a grandmother.
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Sex
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Anonymous
A grandmother assaults her grandson by feeling his crotch through his pants despite his protests. When his father is informed, he near hysterically says that nothing occurred and that he doesn’t want to hear another word, alluding to he himself being abused by his mother.
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Is there sexual content?
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Amanita
Lots, and violent
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Spoiler
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Vehicular
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Is someone hit by a car?
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She isn’t hit, but the pregnant mother is intentionally driven at menacingly as she tries to flee before being thrown back into the car
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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RachelSchweighardt
Dad throws the little girl in the pool to teach her to swim when she doesnt know how
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Is there blood/gore?
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RachelSchweighardt
Jeanette stitches up her father's wound with a needle and thread
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