Leonie Swann's Three Bags Full

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Three Bags Full is a adult book about sheep trying to figure out who killed their beloved shepherd George. The book jumps in with him already being dead and the sheep doing everything they can to try and piece together who did it. As the book goes on things slowly start to fall into place and we learn that George took his own life. Leonie Swann is a German author that did a perfect job at putting together this funny murder mystery. Swann was going through college trying to get a PHD in English literature at the time of writing this book. Although Three Bags Full seems like a child's book, Leonie Swann made sure it was not. Three Bags Full may seem like a children's book due to the sheep being so innocent, the book being a flip book, the comical …show more content…

Such as Allusions to beastiality. When people of Glennkill go to see George's murder for their own eyes, a young man said “....a little too fond of his sheep was George, know what I mean?” on page 35. The reason the boys said and thought this was because of Georges genius idea that he called “Operation Polyphemus”. Operation Polyphemus is where he would put bags of weed under all the wool and on their stomach. This is how George was able to afford a Rolex, how he afforded and why he went out of town all the time, why he stayed at his caravan, and why he didn't have over anyone except his customers. The Syndicate in this book is the main order in this book. The Syndicate made sure the town stayed the way they wanted it to and wouldn't let it be any other way. An adult theme that involves the syndicate is sex. When one of their men go to kill George's daughter, Rebecca, he ends up having a change of mind after talking to her. They have sex and he leaves with the weed that he originally came there for “Much, much later, when even Miss Maple was bored with watching the shepherd’s caravan, the door slowly opened. The man came out and looked at the moon shining down for a little

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