In this horror story by Stephen King, Paul's thumb is cut off by his murderous captor, Annie Wilkes, after she has amputated and cauterized his foot. The foot incident took place after she went out to get him some paper--when she returned, she found he had been out of his room, tied him up, and cut off his foot, as she explained to him this tradition from the days of slavery, called "hobbling." After Annie kills a policeman who comes to the house looking for the policeman who had come looking for Paul, she cuts Paul's thumb off. This followed an argument about the condition of the typewriter she has supplied for him to do his writing on.
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