"I won't rest until Tom Chaney's barking in hell."
In Charles Portis's novel, True Grit, Mattie Ross exclaims that people must pay for everything in the world one way or another. After shooting Tom Chaney and thus avenging her father's murder, Mattie loses her balance from the force of the gun and topples back into a pit full of snakes. Mattie's bad karma makes her pay for her act of retribution by having a snake bite her arm. She ends up having to get it amputated. The pit, as well as the loss of her arm, is symbolic of how unjust and deadly revenge can be.
Interesting take on the pit that certainly bears out. This is the sort of thinking to bring to the test.
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