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Sling Blade
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Sling Blade’s main theme is the recovery of Karl’s lost childhood. Karl’s overly religious parents believed he was a punishment from God. They severely abused him, treated him like an animal, and forced him to live in a shed in solitude. Everyone in town picked on him and called him names. He was seen as a “retard” or slower than others. He had little to call his own. His only possessions were a Bible and several books on Christmas and carpentry. Karl was taught the Bible as a child, but it wasn’t really the Bible. The stories they told him were not in the Bible. His parents had made up their own stories and had led him lost on the rights and wrongs of life. When Karl was 12 years old interrupted what he believed to be the raping of his mother. He took charge and killed the man with a “sling blade”. He than found out his mother had wanted it so he killed her too. When he killed his mother and her lover he thought he was doing the right thing. Karl believed that if you have to sacrifice to do the right thing than you should do it. Karl was locked away in a “nut house” for the next 25 years for rehabilitation and correction. When the student newspaper reporter asked Karl if he would kill again, Karl stated, "I reckon I got no reason to kill nobody." While Karl was staying in the hospital he discovers his own faith.
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