<Dt> Desensitization to violence </Dt> <Dd> The narrator witnesses the physical burning of a black man as well as the electrocution and death of a white woman . Although the narrator does get physically ill at the events, his uncle later tells him of the lynching, "You get used to it in time ." </Dd> <Dl> <Dt> Innocence </Dt> </Dl> <Dl> <Dt> Becoming a Man </Dt> </Dl>

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