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Cujo

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Cujo	comment	It's summertime in Castle Rock, Maine. Two of the resident families, the middle-class Trentons and the working-class Cambers, are going through a rough patch.Vic Trenton has discovered that his wife Donna has been having an affair, and as if that weren't enough, his advertising agency is in dire straits thanks to problems with one of their clients' products. Vic is forced to travel out of town to try and fix things with the agency, leaving Donna and their five-year-old son Tad home alone for two weeks.Meanwhile, Charity Camber is enduring a marriage to her dominating and abusive husband Joe, who works as a mechanic. One day, a lucky lottery ticket brings her $5,000, and possibly a way out for both her and their 11-year-old son Brett, if she plays her cards right. In the midst of all this, the Cambers' pet dog, Cujo, chases a rabbit through a field one day that summer, and into an underground bat cave, where one of the bats ends up biting Cujo on the nose.And with that, two families at domestic crossroads are about to have their lives altered in bloody, violent fashion. For Cujo is a five-year-old, two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard who has never had his rabies shots...Cujo, the second of Stephen King's novels to feature the fictional Maine town of Castle Rock, was published in 1981, and adapted into a film starring Dee Wallace in 1983. It's notable for being a kind of pseudo-sequel to King's earlier novel The Dead Zone (the first of his works to take place in Castle Rock), beginning shortly after the infamous Castle Rock Strangler's murder spree. A few minor characters from The Dead Zone appear in cameos, and it's implied that the titular dog might be possessed by the ghost of the Castle Rock Strangler himself.
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Cujo / int_11d671f6	type	Stopped Caring
Cujo / int_11d671f6	comment	Stopped Caring: Gary Pervier after the war. He lives on his disability pension, lets his house decay and his main goal is to kill himself "as slowly and as pleasantly as he could" (mainly by drinking).
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Cujo / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Cujo / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Both Sheriff Bannerman, who'd been prominently featured in The Dead Zone, and Tad, a child, die.
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Cujo / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Cujo / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: The incubation period for rabies in dogs is two weeks to four months, but Cujo starts showing symptoms almost immediately after he's bitten.
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Cujo / int_1c7555f1	type	The Virus
Cujo / int_1c7555f1	comment	The Virus: Rabies. The effect of rabies was so prominent on Cujo to a point where the main character repeatedly said how Cujo had always been a good dog but it was only the virus that made Cujo lose his mind and become murderously violent.
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Cujo / int_214c0753	type	Angry Guard Dog
Cujo / int_214c0753	comment	Angry Guard Dog: Subverted with Cujo: he attacks people because of rabies, not because he was bred that way.
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Cujo / int_241ca0d8	type	Back for the Dead
Cujo / int_241ca0d8	comment	Back for the Dead: Sheriff Bannerman, a major character in The Dead Zone, shows up in a few scenes before being brutally killed by Cujo.
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Cujo / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Cujo / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: Through the entire book, Cujo is shown to be a good dog who had the sheer bad luck to run afoul of a rabid bat and his brain deteriorated to point of aggression, Cujo was only killing people under a frenzied belief that the humans were responsible for the pain he was going through. After everything that happened, the narration points out that Cujo was never truly violent or aggressive and his behaviour was only a result of rabies. Making Cujo's death at the end of the book more tragic and merciful than letting him continue living in pain and killing people.
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Cujo / int_27ba9b64	type	What Did I Do Last Night?
Cujo / int_27ba9b64	comment	What Did I Do Last Night?: According to King's auto-biography, this entire book. There are worse things to do on a bender...
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Cujo / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
Cujo / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: In the movie, after Donna gets bitten by Cujo after attempting to go into the house to get help, Vic springs awake, yelling, "No!"
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Cujo / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Cujo / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: After getting infected with Rabies from a bat, Cujo's brain starts deteriorating and he eventually starts believing that the humans have done something to him and is so terrified and frenzied from the disease that he attacks them.
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Cujo / int_2e8875f0	type	Misplaced Retribution
Cujo / int_2e8875f0	comment	Misplaced Retribution: Due to the rabies screwing up Cujo's rational thinking, he honestly comes to believe that Donna, and later Sheriff Bannerman, are responsible for him being sick, which is what prompts him to attack them.
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Cujo / int_313d7228	type	Previously onâ€¦
Cujo / int_313d7228	comment	Previously on…: The opening paragraphs summarise the events of The Dead Zone which took place in Castle Rock.
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Cujo / int_34d7d9b	type	Things That Go "Bump" in the Night
Cujo / int_34d7d9b	comment	Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: The monster in Tad's closet.
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Cujo / int_37cee864	type	Real Award, Fictional Character
Cujo / int_37cee864	comment	Real Award, Fictional Character: Gary Pervier received the Distinguished Service Cross (the second highest military award in the US army) for his heroism in World War II. He eventually had it turned into an ashtray.
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Cujo / int_3a29c5c8	type	Villainous Legacy
Cujo / int_3a29c5c8	comment	Villainous Legacy: Frank Dodd's legacy looms large over the town, but he doesn't play any role in the novel outside of a subplot and a few hints he might be influencing Cujo's rampage somehow on account of being dead.
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Cujo / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Cujo / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Tad dies, a big friendly dog that never wanted to hurt anyone dies, but Vic and Donna reconcile, and by the end, things are getting a little bit better for them. Charity and Brett meanwhile ultimately live better due to Joe's death.
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Cujo / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Cujo / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Gary Pervier, in the book at least, has a touch of this. Despite being a full-blown grouch, to put it mildly, he's friends with Joe Camber, and doesn't mind Camber's son, either, but he has a genuine soft spot for Cujo (pre-rabies, of course) and even keeps some dog biscuits on hand for when the dog comes by.
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Cujo / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
Cujo / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Averted in the book. Played straight in the movie.
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Cujo / int_56866bd2	type	Never Wake Up a Sleepwalker
Cujo / int_56866bd2	comment	Never Wake Up a Sleepwalker: During the first night they spend at her sisters' house, Charity finds her son Brett sleepwalking. Although she has enough common sense to know that all those horror stories about the dangers of waking up a sleepwalker are just myths, she still can't bring herself to wake him up and instead watches him untill he goes back to bed. She also recalls how she took Brett to the doctor when he was six because of his frequent sleepwalking, and the doctor blamed poorly researched movies for the wrong ideas people still have about sleepwalking.
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Cujo / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Cujo / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuser: Joe Camber. To the point (in the book) that during sex, his wife is afraid of crying out, because she's not sure he knows about female orgasms and it might upset him.
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Cujo / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Cujo / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Sheriff Bannerman lasts about 30 seconds with Cujo, and he is by far the most effective cop in the book. In addition, if he'd followed procedure and called in that the Pinto was at the Cambers' before he got out of his car to investigate, backup would have arrived and Tad most likely would have survived.
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Cujo / int_5c982007	type	Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs
Cujo / int_5c982007	comment	Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs: Red Razberry Zingers, a product of the Sharp cereal company Vic works for. It's "halfway between candy and cereal" and leaves behind a red-stained toilet bowl, which makes it look like someone is undergoing internal bleeding. Though it's completely harmless, many horrified parents take their kids to the emergency room, creating a public relations disaster for Sharp.
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Cujo / int_5ee6a992	type	Oh, and X Dies
Cujo / int_5ee6a992	comment	Oh, and X Dies: When Charity and Brett leave for Connecticut, the narrator notes that Brett never saw his father alive again.
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Cujo / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Cujo / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Cujo was the nickname for Willie Wolfe of the SLA. The Cambers' replacement pet gets named Willie.
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Cujo / int_6ccb6be	type	My Car Hates Me
Cujo / int_6ccb6be	comment	My Car Hates Me: Donna and Tad are trapped on the Cambers' farm, because her car (a Ford Pinto) wouldn't start (she actually went there to get it fixed).
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Cujo / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Cujo / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Tad, in the movie.
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Cujo / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Cujo / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Gary Pervier. He served in World War II, where he had single-handedly taken a German pillbox, and was hit by six bullets. After that, he became an alcoholic and developed a nihilistic outlook on life (as he puts it, he doesn't give a shit about anything).
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Cujo / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Cujo / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Gary Pervier. He became a morphine addict after his war injury, and when he couldn't get it anymore, he turned to booze.
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Cujo / int_80c45784	type	Beware of Vicious Dog
Cujo / int_80c45784	comment	Beware of Vicious Dog: Prior to being infected with Rabies, Cujo was an aversion and was shown to be friendly. However, after being infected with rabies, his brain deteriorates to a point where he attacks humans under a frenzied belief that they are responsible for the agonizing pain he's undergoing.
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Cujo / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Cujo / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: Eating too much food with red dye does produce what looks remarkably like bloody stool.
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Cujo / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Cujo / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Joe.
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Cujo / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Cujo / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Steve Kemp, who is responsible for nobody knowing where Tad and Donna are, is arrested for kidnapping them, which of course he didn't do. Unfortunately for him there's also drugs in his car, and he also vandalized the Trentons' home on top of that. Joe Camber is a wife beater with all that implies. The last thing seen before the book cuts away as Joe is killed off-screen is Cujo going for a Groin Attack.
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Cujo / int_945c8d7d	type	War Hero
Cujo / int_945c8d7d	comment	War Hero: Gary Pervier won a Distinguished Service Cross during World War II, and is now an angry and bitter alcoholic. His wartime injuries led to him being addicted to morphine, and once he came home from the war he substituted alcohol for morphine.
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Cujo / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Cujo / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: That helpful mailman who points Vic Trenton in the direction of Joe Camber? If he had just minded his own business, Donna and her son wouldn't have had to experience the nightmare they went through.
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Cujo / int_99ff79ee	type	Heat Wave
Cujo / int_99ff79ee	comment	Heat Wave: The story takes place during one, which leads to Tad's death.
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Cujo / int_9e4ed124	type	Mundanger
Cujo / int_9e4ed124	comment	Mundanger: In contrast to most of King's works, there is no supernatural threat in this book. Just a huge, rabid dog. The end of the book even includes a passage that clarifies that Cujo was simply a large, formerly well-meaning dog driven mad by rabies.
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Cujo / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Cujo / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Donna kills Cujo by thrusting the broken handle of a baseball bat through his eye socket.
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Cujo / int_a3ca3b12	type	Mid-Life Crisis Car
Cujo / int_a3ca3b12	comment	Mid-Life Crisis Car: Steve Kemp refers to this phenomenon as "sports car menopause".
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Cujo / int_a4d8473b	type	Stealth Sequel
Cujo / int_a4d8473b	comment	Stealth Sequel: To The Dead Zone, being set in Castle Rock (which would become a recurring location in King’s stories), with the deceased Frank Dodd's influence looming over the town. Sheriff George Bannerman and one of his deputies also return, and Johnny Smith is mentioned a few times.
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Cujo / int_a6dddef9	type	Big Bad Slippage
Cujo / int_a6dddef9	comment	Big Bad Slippage: At the start of the story, Cujo was like any Big Friendly Dog. Upon getting infected with rabies, he transforms into a ravenous animal. None of this was of his own volition, either.
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Cujo / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Cujo / int_a8559a9f	comment	This extended to Real Life: a genuine problem in the making of the film because they simply could not get the St. Bernard playing him to act aggressively. They had to replace him with a cunningly disguised Rottweiler for several crucial scenes, and tape his tail to his leg so he didn't wag it constantly. Awww.
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Cujo / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Cujo / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: The narration takes time to remind us Cujo never wanted to hurt anyone. After his death, it is noted that he was always a good dog.
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Cujo / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Cujo / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When Joe comes face to face with the rabid Cujo.
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Cujo / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Cujo / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: An in-story example. Vic Trenton, who works in advertising, along with his partner, Roger, creates a character called "The Sharp Cereal Professor", who becomes hugely popular. His catchphrase is "Nope, nothing wrong here" which becomes a national piece of slang...and then a national punchline after the Zingers debacle.
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Cujo / int_b1c8e04e	type	Marital Rape License
Cujo / int_b1c8e04e	comment	Joe Camber is a wife beater with all that implies. The last thing seen before the book cuts away as Joe is killed off-screen is Cujo going for a Groin Attack.
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Cujo / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
Cujo / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: It was adapted into a 1983 film.
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Cujo / int_c068a80f	type	Resurrected Murderer
Cujo / int_c068a80f	comment	Resurrected Murderer: There is some implication in the novel that Cujo, after contracting rabies, was also possessed by the vengeful spirit of Frank Dodd, a Serial Killer Cop from Stephen King's previous novel The Dead Zone. Sheriff Bannerman certainly believed so as he was being mauled to death by the rabid St. Bernard, and there are other bits of text that highly imply Dodd's influence over the diseased animal.
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Cujo / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Cujo / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: As the sun comes up on the second day of their "captivity," Donna realizes that she and Tad just have to hold out until the mail carrier comes to the Cambers' and then they'll be okay. While the reader might wonder how the mailman might fare against Cujo, it's a moot point; Camber cancelled his mail delivery since he and Gary were planning to take off for a few days. It happens again when, on the third day, Sheriff Bannerman shows up at the Camber house to investigate Donna's and Ted's disapperance, only for Cujo to kill him before he has a chance to call for backup.
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Cujo / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Cujo / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Joe's death is only implied. As the most unlikeable character in the film, his death would have made for more satisfying viewing than the innocents Cujo savages.
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Cujo / int_c78c0896	type	Big Friendly Dog
Cujo / int_c78c0896	comment	Cujo was one, before he got rabies (as St. Bernards tend to be). When rabies starts to change his behavior and he growls at Gary Pervier, Gary is surprised because he never heard Cujo growl before. The terror comes from how quickly a Big Friendly Dog is turned into a killing machine by the virus. There's a reason why most places require all registered dogs to get the rabies vaccine.
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Cujo / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Cujo / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Although the book is realistic horror rather than the supernatural horror that King is most well known for, there are a few lines scattered throughout implying that the rabid Cujo is the reincarnation of the psychotic killer/rapist Frank Dodd. Then there's the "monster" in Tad's closet that turns out to be just a pile of blankets...which return to the closet after his parents remove them.
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Cujo / int_cc017ca0	type	Emasculated Cuckold
Cujo / int_cc017ca0	comment	Emasculated Cuckold: Vic Trenton. His wife has an affair with Steve Kemp, and after she breaks it off, Kemp sends a crude message to Vic in revenge about how he enjoyed "fucking the shit out of her". He also mentions the mole Donna has on an intimate place, so Vic knows that the message is true. It causes him horrible emotional pain.
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Cujo / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Cujo / int_dc8ba6d5	comment	The Scapegoat: This is how Vic and Roger see themselves in the subplot about Sharp cereals and the Raspberry Zingers controversy. One batch of contaminated food dye makes it into the company's cereal, and even though nobody is actually hurt or sickened by it, and even though the cereal company itself isn't to blame, Sharp's sales fall and their stock price plummets. Obviously the outside advertising agency promoting the cereal had absolutely nothing to do with any of that, but Vic and Roger understand that Sharp will probably fire them just to show they're taking decisive action and recover a bit of their stock price. Ultimately subverted when Sharp decides to retain Vic and Roger for two more years, though the two men understand it's just a stay of execution and they're going to get fired once those two years are up.
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Cujo / int_dd8deee1	comment	Xenofiction: Parts of the book are told from the perspective of Cujo. They show him to be a Tragic Villain.
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Cujo / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Cujo / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Donna's primal rage at the end is partly due to Cujo threatening her son, and partly due to early symptoms of rabies. There's Artistic License – Biology on the last part. Rabies has an incubation period of one to three months before symptoms start to appear. While there have been records of incubation periods lasting only four days, she didn't even spend THAT long trapped. Not to mention she almost certainly would have been a goner if symptoms appeared (Post-exposure treatment has a tragically low success rate, and survivors suffer severe neurological problems for the rest of their lives). Also, rabies very rarely manifests as "primal rage" in humans the way it does in animals.
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Cujo / int_e35bc0f7	type	Tragic Monster
Cujo / int_e35bc0f7	comment	Tragic Monster: Cujo. He's shown to suffer terribly from rabies, and he only attacks people under the frenzied belief that they are responsible for his pain. At the end of the book, it's written: "It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. [...] He had never wanted to kill anybody. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies. Free will was not a factor." He was also possibly influenced by the ghost of a previous Stephen King villain... Not to mention his brief encounter with Randall Flagg. Sadly, Cujo isn't even at peace after his death. His restless, malevolent spirit makes a cameo appearance in King's "last" Castle Rock story.
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Cujo / int_e59a8584	comment	Instant Illness: Borderline example. Rabies typically takes longer than a week to begin showing symptoms (it usually takes a few months) - to be more precise, symptoms don't begin to show until the virus reaches the brain. However, the distance from bite site to the brain is actually a factor, and Cujo was bitten on the nose, so there is a slim possibility that the virus could indeed have advanced that quickly. In an unusual case during the modern age, a human victim got bitten by a wolf very close to the head and the virus got into the nervous system almost instantly. Despite the full vaccine course and serum being given the next day at the hospital, the poor guy developed rabies and died a horrible death in less than 2 weeks after the bite. Very rare, one-in-a-million chance, but it still can happen.
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Cujo / int_ea29db77	type	Dogs Love Being Praised
Cujo / int_ea29db77	comment	Dogs Love Being Praised: The scenes from Cujo's point of view show that until rabies deteriorates his brain, he is very concerned with not being seen as a BADDOG.
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Cujo / int_ead9bc9	type	Dog Stereotype
Cujo / int_ead9bc9	comment	Dog Stereotype: Cujo starts out fitting the Saint Bernard stereotype—he's a Big Friendly Dog who loves children. Then he gets rabies, and all bets are off.
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Cujo / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Gary Pervier lost a testicle in World War II. Cujo bites Joe Camber in the groin, but mercifully, this is not detailed.
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Cujo / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Cujo / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted with Roger Breakstone, one of Vic's colleagues, and Roger, who advises the Mailman not to make the trip over to the Cambers' house since they'll be away, preventing him from rescuing Donna and Tad.
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Cujo / int_efc49c38	type	Trapped-with-Monster Plot
Cujo / int_efc49c38	comment	Trapped-with-Monster Plot: Being trapped with your sick child in a swelteringly hot car that won't start, as a rabid dog waits for you just outside.
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Cujo / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
Cujo / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: Donna's Ford Pinto. In fact, the whole reason why Donna and Tad are trapped is because they took it to Joe's to get the broken alternator fixed. By the time Cujo dies, it's in even worse shape.
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Cujo / int_f645ee0d	type	Never Win the Lottery
Cujo / int_f645ee0d	comment	Never Win the Lottery: Charity Camber's $5,000 win enables her and Brett to stay with her sister - just in time to leave her husband and visitors at Cujo's mercy.
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Cujo / int_f7f8c062	comment	Intimate Marks: Donna has a mole just above her pubic hair that looks like a question mark. Steve Kemp mentions it in his letter to Vic (see Emasculated Cuckold).
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