Violence in Babel's short stories is very sudden and it is mentioned in the short stories as a way to grasp the readers and entertain them since the stories are short and don't really have a long plot. I thought it was really cruel how in The Letter, the father would kill his own son in such a horrific way by beating him until his death. This event was very heart breaking to me and I thought is was so awful. Violence in the short stories are a way to call attention to make the stories interesting by portraying them in a horrible way.