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* ''Literature/EarthsChildren'': The part where a pre-teen Ayla is repeatedly raped by Broud is particularly hard to stomach once you read the other books in the series and realise that even if she'd been raised by the Others and not by the Clan she would still have lost her virginity at a young age. The Others believe that an adolescent female is vulnerable while she lacks both the protective spirits of childhood and the power of full womanhood and that having sex for the first time is what makes a girl a woman. Among the Others, however, the custom is to hold a [[SexAsRiteOfPassage special ceremony]] at which girls are deflowered by young men who are carefully supervised to make sure they don't get too rough, which is what Ayla's first time would probably have been like had her circumstances been different. And if she'd still had the misfortune of being raped, her tribe would have supported her and the man or men responsible would have been suitably dealt with.
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** The part where a pre-teen Ayla is repeatedly raped by Broud is particularly hard to stomach once you read the other books in the series and realise that even if she'd been raised by the Others and not by the Clan she would still have lost her virginity at a young age. The Others believe that an adolescent female is vulnerable while she lacks both the protective spirits of childhood and the power of full womanhood and that having sex for the first time is what makes a girl a woman. Among the Others, however, the custom is to hold a [[SexAsRiteOfPassage special ceremony]] at which girls are deflowered by young men who are carefully supervised to make sure they don't get too rough, which is what Ayla's first time would probably have been like had her circumstances been different. And if she'd still had the misfortune of being raped, her tribe would have supported her and the man or men responsible would have been suitably dealtwith.with.
** In ''The Valley of Horses'', all Thonolan's jokes about how he thinks he's died and gone to the spirit world when he wakes and [[LoveAtFirstSight first lays eyes on Jetamio]] are heartbreaking in hindsight. [[spoiler:She ends up dying in childbirth (along with their baby) and Thonolan is completely devastated, even wishing he was dead along with her. And then he ''does'' die]].
** The part where a pre-teen Ayla is repeatedly raped by Broud is particularly hard to stomach once you read the other books in the series and realise that even if she'd been raised by the Others and not by the Clan she would still have lost her virginity at a young age. The Others believe that an adolescent female is vulnerable while she lacks both the protective spirits of childhood and the power of full womanhood and that having sex for the first time is what makes a girl a woman. Among the Others, however, the custom is to hold a [[SexAsRiteOfPassage special ceremony]] at which girls are deflowered by young men who are carefully supervised to make sure they don't get too rough, which is what Ayla's first time would probably have been like had her circumstances been different. And if she'd still had the misfortune of being raped, her tribe would have supported her and the man or men responsible would have been suitably dealt
** In ''The Valley of Horses'', all Thonolan's jokes about how he thinks he's died and gone to the spirit world when he wakes and [[LoveAtFirstSight first lays eyes on Jetamio]] are heartbreaking in hindsight. [[spoiler:She ends up dying in childbirth (along with their baby) and Thonolan is completely devastated, even wishing he was dead along with her. And then he ''does'' die]].
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* In the 1975 suspense novel ''Literature/WhereAreTheChildren'', it's made clear one of the reasons people believed Nancy was [[MiscarriageOfJustice guilty]] of murdering her children was because she [[IncriminatingIndifference didn't react]] to her children's deaths the way they thought she 'should' (which could actually be attributed to shock and exhaustion), with there also being judgemental and inaccurate assumptions on her appearance and lifestyle. Just five years after the book was published, a real-life tragedy occurred with several similarities when Lindy Chamberlain was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Azaria_Chamberlain wrongly accused of murdering her baby daughter]] in 1980, with it eventually being confirmed the baby was killed by a dingo.
