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The Lock Artist

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by Steve Hamilton (Goodreads Author)

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GSGS I guess different people process trauma differently, and I think the implication was that he was drawn to cracking locks in the first place because of…moreI guess different people process trauma differently, and I think the implication was that he was drawn to cracking locks in the first place because of his past. I think the scene where he cracks a safe for the first time is definitely coloured by PTSD; if you remember it's quite an intense scene where he's trying to save a hypothetical someone locked in the safe. Up until that point, he couldn't crack the safe, so it was as though as soon as he stopped repressing the trauma and instead confronted the panic and grief, that was when he was able to "feel" the workings of the safe and "open up" and become an artist. Even if it *is* a plot hole, I personally think the symbolism there is cool enough to justify it :) (less)
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