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Violence
Some
Gunfights and violence; present but handled in the clean Western tradition
Language
Barely any
Mild period language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking in frontier settings
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Themes of heroism, violence as both problem and solution, and the weight of legend
What this book is about
Shane appears one summer and becomes a hired hand for the Starrett family, earning the trust of the father and the hero-worship of the boy narrator. But Shane's past as a gunfighter follows him, and when the cattle baron threatens the homesteaders, violence becomes inevitable. Schaefer's slim Western classic is one of the most celebrated American novels about violence, heroism, and myth.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Western gunfight violence
Themes of violence and mythmaking
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