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Mattie Ross's arm, Rooster Cogburn's missing eye, Lucky Ned Pepper's lip (shot by Rooster), and LaBoeuf's busted skull—True Grit has more injuries than the trauma ward at your local hospital. Add to that the novel's shoot-outs, pistol whippings, thrashings, finger-choppings and snake bites, and it adds up to one big mess of violence. But we get the sense that violence is the price of doing business—and it can even be funny. If it takes violence to track down Frank Ross's killer—well, then, it takes violence. After all, this is the Wild West. You don't walk into the Territory expecting Band-Aids and Neosporin, do you?