Ham on Rye...or Expletive on Expletive

Well, where does one begin when a story is completely saturated with every variety of profanity, vulgarity, et cetera? I'm not entirely sure, and since I am not prepared to tackle young Henry's escapades through sexual awakening and violent tendencies, I will focus on some of the other themes in the reading.
It's interesting that Henry, who has very violent, very disturbing impulses also feels things very sensitively. When neighborhood boys are gathered around, watching a spider devour a fly, Henry destroys the web, saving the fly, much to the consternation of his companions. Later on, Henry experiences fierce pangs of helplessness, feeling nausea because his friends are torturing a cat and he is too scared to intervene. His thought is that  'the cat didn't have a chance against humanity' and you can almost hear his next thought being that he doesn't have a chance against the persons in his life.
It also goes without saying that a group of fifth graders who daydream about violent sex with older women are obviously way older than their age(and seriously messed up as well), and this is a huge theme throughout the book. Henry even says that when he is describing how the kids are sullen and even controlling of adults at their school and in the community. The times have made them impatient with their adolescence.
 While the depression isn't a central theme, it is definitely appearing in the peripheral of the story, with the children's fathers losing jobs and a general lack of money. It seems as if even Henry's parents' compulsion of having roast beef every day has been thwarted by poverty.
Food did not seem to play any sort of role in this portion of the book, I am curious to see how it will in the coming chapters; that is, if the there is any room left over after 50 pages worth of sex, expletives, violence, older women....you get the idea.