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Teachers & SchoolsBlood and Injury Imagery
Although injury makes an indirect appearance near the beginning of the poem, things really get gory toward the end, when the stepsisters are brought to gruesome justice. Many of these bloody events are told in a really casual, almost nondescript kind of way, which in a way makes them even more startling. After all, if somebody says something really shocking in an offhand way, don't you kind of do a double take?