'Callous Language In One Flew Over The Poo's'

Before this passage Michele comes to the realization that the boy in the hole had been kidnapped and put there by his friends and family. In chapter four Michele sees Felice Natale’s brown 127 car when he was visiting the boy at the farm house. This was one of the first indications to Michele that his friends and family was involved. The theory had entered Michele’s mind but he had not thought into great detail about it until he sees his father, mother, and the fathers of the village all sitting around the television watching the report on Filippo’s kidnapping. He hears the adults using heartless language towards Filippo’s distressed mother, his own father saying ‘Two ears we’ll cut off. Two.’ This use of callous language indicates to Michele