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Quote #10
"I wouldn't've done it." I say and he scowls at the interupshun. "I wouldn't've killed anyone."
"Ah, yes, Todd Hewitt," Aaron says. "And that's why yer so very special, ain't you? The boy who can't kill." (41.81-82)
Aaron is twisting Todd's motive. Todd has made his choice not to kill. But Aaron is trying to tell him that it wasn't a choice—that instead, Todd wasn't capable of killing. This is a mind trick. Aaron is trying to get Todd to think that he can't make choices, which would mean that everything Todd does comes from whether or not he can, instead of whether or not he wants to.