Violence

“Mauricio (The Eye) Silva,” and the excerpt from The Savage Detectives were both about abounding amounts of violence. In The Eye's story he rescues two boys from being castrated by breaking them out of and Indian brothel, and in The Savage Detective is a story about a man and his friend in war torn Africa.
Quite honestly I found both of these stories incredibly disturbing, first of all just the pure horror of the Indian ritual in The Eye's story was incredibly horrible, I don't see how you could justify doing that to children, even for a religion, that is crap and I have absolutely no problem with The Eye becoming violent to free the boys.
The Savage Detective was disturbing to me because right in the middle of Jacobo's journey in Liberia his Italian friend gets shot in the head, once again the soldiers in Liberia are not even over 20 yet they have to kill people and think about things like the fact that a dead body left in the street will probably be eaten by dogs.
Both of these stories were written by people who weren't the only main character. In "Mauricio (The Eye) Silva" the writer is hearing the story from The Eye, and in The Savage Detective Jacobo is constantly looking for his friend Belano, who at the end of the story walks away to an unknown fate.
While the ending of The Savage Detective is sad I was far more disturbed by the war going on between the children in the country. In both stories the death of kids and mutilation of young boys was by far more disturbing to me then any unknown fate or really anything that could happen to an adult. Kids should not have to deal with that kind of death and pain.