Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26308279-20150413133602/@comment-26299456-20150413234719

EmpyrealInvective wrote: Besides that plot hole, there is this one as well.

You would also think a boy would be able to differentiate bread and flesh as well: "The next day, as Simon was walking to the dining table to get his breakfast, he was suddenly mesmerized at the smell of his favorite dish, bread." Especially considering this: "Simon was always fed bread his father gave him since that was the only kind of food he knew at the time but he knew bread when he tasted it, he was blind after all." I thought the reason was that after the divorce, the father killed the pigs and said to the kid that he was eating bread while he was actually eating them, so when he was given flesh he couldn't tell the differennce