V-2nd - Chapter 11: Those kids

[Mark Kohut]

laura writes:
The scene where the Maltese kids set upon the dying V., laugh at her and 
dismember her, well, it's kind of disturbing, no?  I have a mental block against 
anything Biblical, but the scene's clearly got some Christian overtones.  Does 
it relate to a specific scene in the New Testament, anyone?


Don't know those other wonderful associative allusions you bring, so I only 
thought of 

Shirley Jackson's The Lottery.---that classic 1948 New Yorker story that 
resulted in the most subscription cancellations
to that date, I think..................

With its roots in a community's "need" to scapegoat, as (some) anthropologist's 
have argued ?  

Leading again to your, Laura's, question about how much victim, how much 
enactor, of bad shit is V.?