History HarsherInHindsight / Literature

** And, while ''chronologically'' this is NOT "in hindsight", [[spoiler: Leslie's death]] becomes even more tragic when one learns that the book is [[BasedOnATrueStory based on the experience of the author's son]].

* In ''Dimon'' by Fr. Alexander Torik, written in 2008, the eponymous character goes through the [[JudgmentOfTheDead aerial tollhouses where hundreds of recently-departed souls are being tried]]. Said tollhouses masquerade as a gigantic, splendid shopping mall, with every sector advertised as Heaven [[ThisIsntHeaven while really being]] a temptation for a specific sin constructed by demons and intended to lure the soul to Hell. Dimon compares it (at the point when he is really at the tollhouse of hoarding) to Crocus City, which is a grand business center, including a shopping mall and music venue, in Krasnogorsk. What was initially a completely lighthearted comparison is now uncomfortable on ''so many'' levels, since on March 22, 2024, Crocus City became a target for the second-deadliest terrorist act in the history of UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia; the attack claimed at least 145 lives, with 551 more people getting wounded.

* In ''Dimon'' by Fr. Alexander Torik, written in 2008, the eponymous character goes through the [[JudgmentOfTheDead aerial tollhouses where the recently-departed souls are being tried]]. Said tollhouses masquerade as a gigantic, splendid shopping mall, with every sector advertised as Heaven [[ThisIsntHeaven while really being]] a temptation for a specific sin constructed by demons and intended to lure the soul to Hell. Dimon compares the magnificent shops that seem to store everything in existence (at that point, he is really at the tollhouse of hoarding) to Crocus City, which is a grand business center, including a shopping mall and music venue, in Krasnogorsk. What was initially a completely lighthearted comparison is now uncomfortable on ''so many'' levels, since on March 22, 2024, Crocus City became a target for the second-deadliest terrorist act in the history of UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia; the attack claimed at least 145 lives, with 551 people getting wounded.

* ''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.