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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a story about Eva, Kevin, Franklin entitled We Need to Talk About Kevin.
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conversations.value: We Need to Talk About Kevin: Eva's narration takes the form of letters written after the massacre to her presumably estranged husband, Franklin Plaskett.\nIn these letters she details her relationship with her husband well before and leading up to their son's conception, followed by the events of Kevin's life up to the school massacre, and her thoughts concerning their relationship.\nShe also admits to a number of events that she tried to keep secret, such as when she lashed out and broke Kevin's arm in a sudden fit of rage.\nThe novel also shows Eva visiting Kevin in prison.\nThese scenes portray their cold, adversarial relationship.\nKevin's behavior throughout the story closely resembles that of a psychopath, although reference to this condition is sparse and left mostly up to the reader's imagination.\nHe displays little to no affection or moral responsibility towards his family or community; indeed, Kevin seems to regard everyone with contempt and hatred.\nHe reserves special loathing for his mother, whom he has antagonized for as long as he can remember.\nHe engages in many acts of petty sabotage from an early age, from seemingly innocent actions like spraying ink with a squirt gun on a room his mother has painstakingly wallpapered in rare maps, to possibly encouraging a girl to gouge her eczema-affected skin.\nThe one activity he takes any pleasure in is archery, having read Robin Hood as a child.\nAs Kevin's behavior worsens, Franklin becomes more defensive of him, convinced that his son is a healthy, normal boy and that there is a reasonable explanation for everything he does.\nKevin plays the part of a loving, respectful son whenever Franklin is around, an act that Eva sees through.\nThis creates a rift between Eva and Franklin that never heals; shortly before the massacre, Franklin asks for a divorce.\nKevin's sister Celia is conceived largely because of Eva's need to bond with another member of her family.\nWhen Celia is six years old, she is involved in a household accident in which drain cleaner causes her to lose an eye.\nThis is closely linked to an earlier incident involving the disappearance of Celia's pet rodents, after which Eva uses a caustic drain cleaner to clear a blockage in a sink.\nTwo explanations are possible: that Eva left the cleaner sitting within Celia's reach, or that Kevin somehow attacked Celia with it, destroying her eye and scarring her face.\nThough never proven, Eva strongly believes that Kevin, who was babysitting at the time, poured the Liquid Plumr onto his sister's face, telling her he was cleaning her eye after she got something in it.\nWhen relating the story of the massacre, Eva finally reveals that Franklin and Celia are in fact dead—Kevin killed them both with his bow before traveling to his school to attack nine classmates, a cafeteria worker and a teacher.\nEva speculates that he did this because he overheard her and Franklin discussing a divorce; he believed Franklin would get custody of him, thus denying him final victory over his mother.\nThe novel ends on the second anniversary of the massacre, three days before Kevin will turn eighteen and be transferred to Sing Sing.\nSubdued and frightened, he makes a peace offering of sorts to Eva by giving her Celia's prosthetic eye to bury, and telling her that he's sorry.\nEva asks Kevin for the first time why he committed the murders, and Kevin replies that he is no longer sure.\nThey embrace, and Eva concludes that, despite what he did, she still loves her son.
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a story about Kevin, Eva, Kevin's entitled We Need to Talk About Kevin.. End with the sentence '\nEva gives Kevin a hug and says her good-byes while he is taken away.'.
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conversations.value: We Need to Talk About Kevin (film): Teenager Kevin Khatchadourian is in prison after committing a massacre at his high school.\nHis mother, Eva, once a successful travel writer, lives alone in a rundown house and works in a travel agency in a town near the prison, where she visits Kevin.\nShe looks back at her memories of him growing up as she tries to cope with the anger and hostility of her neighbors, who know she is Kevin's mother.\nKevin is detached and difficult even from childhood.\nEva has problems with identifying as a mother and has trouble bonding with Kevin, who appears to loathe her and behaves in whatever way he thinks will torment her the most.\nAs a baby, he cries incessantly, but only around her; as a child, he resists toilet training, rebuffs Eva's clumsy attempts at affection, and shows no interest in anything.\nHe portrays a happy, loving son when his father is watching, and reverts to his sullen, bitter personality only when he is alone with his mother.\nWhile he is still small, Eva's frustration with his intractability drives her to throw Kevin against the wall, breaking his arm.\nThey return from the hospital with Kevin's arm in a cast.\nWhen his father, Franklin, asks how he broke his arm, Kevin covers for his mother with a lie, using this incident later to subtly blackmail her into giving in to demands, like skipping her errands to take him straight home after school.\nWhen Eva tries to talk to her husband about her increasing concern about Kevin's problems, he dismisses her concerns and makes excuses for Kevin's behavior; he has never seen Kevin's dark side and so he doesn't think anything is wrong with Kevin.\nThe only real affection and interest Kevin shows towards Eva occurs when he is confined to his bed with a fever and she reads him a story about Robin Hood.\nWhen reading the part of the story where Robin competes in Prince John's archery contest, Kevin snuggles with Eva and spurns Franklin when he interrupts the story.\nFranklin gives him a bow and arrow set and teaches him archery, and Kevin soon becomes an excellent marksman.\nHe continues to practice and graduate to bigger bows as he gets older.\nEva and Franklin have a second child, Celia, who is lively and cheerful.\nHowever, her birth does nothing to lessen the tension within the family, as Kevin immediately shows disdain and jealousy towards her.\nA few years later, Celia's pet guinea pig is killed and she is blinded in one eye by an incident with a caustic cleaning fluid.\nEva is convinced Kevin is responsible, whereas Franklin insists these events were accidents and that their son is blameless.\nThis pattern of suspicion on Eva's part, combined with Franklin's unflagging defense of Kevin, ruins their marriage, and Franklin approaches Eva with the subject of a future divorce.\nEva comes to fear her son, as she sees growing evidence of Kevin's pleasure in hurting others.\nThis eventually leads to the massacre, when Kevin locks the gymnasium doors with bike locks and murders multiple students with his bow and arrow.\nAs Eva arrives at the school from work, along with the other concerned adults, the police cut through one of the bike locks, and Eva knows Kevin is responsible.\nKevin voluntarily walks out, turning himself over, and revealing himself to be the killer.\nEva finally arrives home, only to find the house empty and dark.\nShe discovers the arrow-penetrated corpses of Franklin and Celia in the backyard, whom Kevin had killed before the massacre.\nOn the second anniversary of the massacre, Eva visits Kevin in prison.\nKevin is anxious because his transfer to an adult prison is about to happen.\nEva asks him why he committed the murders.\nDisplaying rare vulnerability, Kevin responds that he used to know but is no longer sure.\nEva gives Kevin a hug and says her good-byes while he is taken away.