I was thinking the other day that babies don't die a lot in fiction, or at least it's never described

I was thinking the other day that babies don't die a lot in fiction, or at least it's never described.

Can you think of anything that depicts a baby dying?

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Nice trips, fitting for the post.

They kill a baby in M*A*S*H :^)

For Sale: baby Shoes, never worn.

messed up the capitalization, but here op: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_sale:_baby_shoes,_never_worn

Sinclair Ross wrote some short stories where babies die.

one hundred years of solitude

Leopoldo Bloom's son dies in"Ulysses." It's actually a not uncommon plot device.

Take for instance Beloved from "Beloved."

I think a baby dies in The Pearl by Steinbeck.

that's a spoiler though

>reading for the plot

A pig eats him
CJC

Maybe they just bought too many shoes M8

Maybe your parents should have worn a condom

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For a book that's supposed to be about post-slavery black culture there's a lot of freaky shit that borders on torture porn in that book.

Blood Meridian got a dead baby tree

Growth of the Soil has two instances of infanticide

buddenbrooks
doctor fausfus

The Road

yuuuum

The Earthquake in Chile by Kleist.

Two come to mind....

There's the baby in Bleak House. That's sad.

And in The Road. I remember reading it for the first time thinking to myself, there should be a dead baby somewhere soon. And lo and behold, the baby bbq scene. McCarthy is so fucking predictable.

Reply to this post or your baby will die in its sleep tonight

Well I could but it would kinda spoil it. Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Fuck you for making me repley

Hopscotch by Cortázar

In IT, theres a scene where a budding psychopath kid smothers his infant brother.

Also an orgy/gangbang of like 8 yr olds in a cave

Steven king is weird

Last of the Mohicans has a brutal passage about tree niggers killing colonial babies by smashing them against rocks.

Haven't you read Angela s Ashes?
>rain, babies doiyin', more rain

He rapes his sister, phoebe.

Hasn't there been a facebook livestream of a Thai man hanging his girlfriend's infant? Search for that one, it's all over the interwebz - it's just hard finding the video in good quality.

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A modest proposal

Tess of the d'urbervilles

The Pearl by Steinbeck

Great story, excellent writer, recommend.

>thread about infants dying in literature
>complains about spoilers
also no one would know if you didn't point it out. also who cares about spoilers.

Jude the Obscure
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Maggie: Girl of the streets (has a baby funeral)
"The Dead Baby" - William Carlos Williams

That's what I thought of off the top of my head.

Outer Darkness
Desire Under the Elms
Saved

Trainspotting

Grapes of Wrath too. Steinbeck is nearly as fond of dead babbies as McCarthye