We Need To Talk About Kevin

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SleepingStandingUp · 20/03/2018 00:48

Just finished it. I called the twist but still thought out was brilliantly done.

So who was really to blame?

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SleepingStandingUp · 20/03/2018 08:30

I was reading the start thinking how can a new baby be so inherently dislikable? She had 4 or so months off with him alone, is that long enough with severe PND tp mould him into the child that could scare away so many nannies?

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QueenAravisOfArchenland · 20/03/2018 08:16

I think the persistent question is, if Eva had loved and wanted him from the start, as she did Celia, would he have turned out the way he did?

She gets pregnant for the "wrong" reasons and resents Kevin from before he's born. But does she dislike him because he's inherently dislikeable or because she is selfish? Or is she just really really unlucky?

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SleepingStandingUp · 20/03/2018 08:12

I think parental blame is in terms of how Kevin turned out rather than not alerting the authorities for it per se.
There were clearly warning signs of him being not right but was that nature or nurture?

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SpringNowPlease2018 · 20/03/2018 02:00

How can anyone blame the mum?! Why?

SpringNowPlease2018 · 20/03/2018 01:59

"So who was really to blame"

I can't believe that's a question unless I missed something major.

Kevin is to blame. I could be misremembering but up to the fateful day, was there anything concrete that his parents could have reported to the police?

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SleepingStandingUp · 20/03/2018 01:26

Poor little sister.
I think he was trying to win his moms... something.

Severe PND, I blame the hubby

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DJLippy · 20/03/2018 01:06

I dunno Kevin is kind of a creep.
Society, is it societies fault?

FellOutOfBed2wice · 20/03/2018 01:02

I read it 10+ years ago but it’s never left me. The Mum, I think. And she knew it.

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