How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
She saw her mother, or most of her, lying on the floor. Her head was out of sight around the foot of the bed, but she was lying still and her legs stuck out at a strange angle. Her dress was rucked up above her knees, and then Anna saw the floor of the shack was slowly changing color, from brown to red. (27.27)
Anna's perspective of their mom dying is pretty rough, mainly because we know it's completely unnecessary for Maria to die, particularly in such a gruesome fashion. The book doesn't shy away from showing us the violence, even when it's depressing.
Quote #8
He leaned right into her as he did and pulled violently on the rope, so that she gasped a couple of times. That seemed to make Wolff pull even harder, and he lingered, enjoying the act of binding her. (32.38)
Wolff is no stranger to violence, and here he seems to get a kick out of hurting Anna while he's tying her to the chair. It's no surprise that he's excited by violence when he causes so much of it in the book.
Quote #9
Not just Anna lying on the bed, with Wolff standing over her, tugging at his waistband. Not just the shape of his father's corpse under the blanket, not the pool of his own blood in which he lay, flowing freely from the wound to his head. (36.2)
Luckily Sig wakes up and stops Wolff before he can hurt Anna any more than he already has. We can't help but notice that most of the violence is against women in the book. While Einar dies, he freezes to death, and Wolff causes his own wounds—the only people hurt by others are women.