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[Updated] Of Mice and Men Trigger Warning List

Here is the updated version of the trigger warning list for Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. I added a few new sections, and I think I did a pretty good job of not missing anything, but as always, don't take these lists as absolute. Even with a practiced eye, its very easy to miss things. I also changed the formatting so that it better matched the ones I created after. [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 ca