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It__ cruelty that gets to me. Still, it__ important to read about cruelty.__hy is it important?_ Because when you read about it, it__ easier to recognize. That was always the hardest thing in the refugee camps__o hear the stories of the people who had been raped or mutilated or forced to watch a parent or a sister or a child be raped or killed. It__ very hard to come face-to-face with such cruelty. But people can be cruel in lots of ways, some very subtle. I think that__ why we all need to read about it. I think that__ one of the amazing things about Tennessee Williams__ plays. He was so attuned to cruelty__he way Stanley treats Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. It starts with asides and looks and put-downs. There are so many great examples from Shakespeare__hen Goneril torments King Lear or the way Iago speaks to Othello. And what I love about Dickens is the way he presents all types of cruelty. You need to learn to recognize these things right from the start. Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.