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A Separate Peace Trigger Warnings

I'm back! Well, I technically wasn't ever gone, but I did forget to continue to post for a while. I finished the trigger warning list for A Separate Peace by John Knowles about 3 weeks ago, though its somewhat tentative, since I'm almost positive that I missed things, meaning that I need to go back an reread it to check. So keep an eye out for those edits, but this should cover the majority of the content that needs warning. [Important: Please note that trigger warnings are not necessarily to make it so that you can just avoid the content. There is a fairly popular mistaken belief that trigger warnings are censorship. That is not true. Trigger warnings exist so that, if you are sensitive to the content, you are made aware of it before it occurs and surprises you. This gives you a chance to prepare yourself mentally before reading it so that it does not affect you as negatively as it might if you didn’t know that it was going to happen. Also, please note that if you rely

Of Mice and Men Trigger Warnings

Hi everyone! As promised, here's the trigger warning list for Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. [Important: Please note that trigger warnings are not necessarily to make it so that you can just avoid the content. There is a fairly popular mistaken belief that trigger warnings are censorship. That is not true. Trigger warnings exist so that, if you are sensitive to the content, you are made aware of it before it occurs and surprises you. This gives you a chance to prepare yourself mentally before reading it so that it does not affect you as negatively as it might if you didn’t know that it was going to happen. Also, please note that if you rely on triggers for the shock-value or plot twists (aka, “Well I can’t use trigger warnings because they’re spoilers!”), you aren’t a very good writer and you definitely aren’t taking into consideration the potential sensitivity of your audience.] Triggers, listed in order of the number of occurrences: death, racism, sexual innuendos, sexu