The Witches Violence Quotes

Sometimes, when reading The Witches, we just get so used to these violent images that they don't shock us anymore. In this case, maybe it's because mice getting caught in traps isn't anything new to us. Still, though, we have to remember that these mice are actually children (who think and feel like humans still) and it is their heads that are "rrrolling across the floor like marbles!"

There's a lot of rhyming in The Witches, particularly when describing violence. How do you think this changes the way we perceive the violence?

Please excuse this interruption while we bring you a little culinary lesson. Tripes are intestines. These are our narrator's tripes that we're talking about!