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"I found a nest of baby snakes near the creek and killed them all" (53).

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Merricat has a tendency to kill innocent things. This shows her personality because she has no sympathy towards other beings.

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"'First,' she said, 'she bought the arsenic.' 'To kill rats,' Constance said to the teapot, and then turned and smiled at me," (37).

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Constance doesn't understand poison as well as Merricat does. Because of this, we can figure out that Merricat used the arsenic that Constance purchased. This also made it appear that Constance did the crime, which protects Merricat.

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"My niece Mary Katherine died in an orphanage, of neglect, during her sister's trial for murder" (93)

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"Their tongues will burn, I thought as though they had eaten fire, Their throats will burn when the words come out, and in their bellies they will feel a torment hotter than a thousand fires." (17)

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Uncle Julian was covering up for her saying she was dead.  Also, she feels guilt that her sister has to go through trial for the murder she committed.

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Merricat pictures the villagers and wishes this to happen to them. This is also how her family died, since the poison that Merricat gave them made them go through agony and pain through their throats and mouths.

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" 'The Amanita phalloides,' I said to him, 'holds three different poisons.'" (72)

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"Constance looked at me for a minute.  'Miss Wickedness,' she said.  'You wanted him to forget.'" (74)

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Constance calls Merricat 'Miss Wickedness' because she is the evil one that killed the family. She also says 'you wanted him to forget'. This means that they wanted people to forget that it was Merricat and that Constance would take the blame.

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"I wanted to be kinder to Uncle Julian," (43).

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"'She was in her room,' Mrs. Wright said. 'A great child of twelve, sent to bed without her supper.'"

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Merricat killed Uncle Julian's wife and son, in addition to almost killing him. Therefore, she feels compelled to be kinder to him since an important part of his life was taken away from him. This statement is repeated multiple times throughout the book and shows that Merricat feels a sense of guilt for her actions. If she was innocent, she wouldn't be feeling this type of guilt.

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This could be a motive for Merricat to poison her parents' food. She also was safe from the poison because she didn't eat at all. This quote also shows how her parents treated her, strengthening the idea of Merricat having a "motive" to kill her family.

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She has more knowledge about poisons than Constance. It is showing how she uses this knowledge to make people uncomfortable because their family died to poison.