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* RealMenWearPink: Julian, who not only is in drama like the rest of them but secretly wants to be a ballet dancer instead of a doctor. Bo, of course, rebels against this trope to embrace classic manliness, which is why they lost the competition.
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* RealMenWearPink: Julian, who not only is in drama like the rest of them but secretly wants to be a ballet dancer instead of a doctor. Bo, of course, rebels against this trope to embrace [[ManlyMan classic manliness, manliness]], which is why they lost the competition.
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* RealMenWearPink: Julian, who not only is in drama like the rest of them but secretly wants to be a ballet dancer instead of a doctor. Bo, of course, rebels against this trope to embrace RatedMForManly, which is why they lost the competition.
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* RealMenWearPink: Julian, who not only is in drama like the rest of them but secretly wants to be a ballet dancer instead of a doctor. Bo, of course, rebels against this trope to embrace RatedMForManly, classic manliness, which is why they lost the competition.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Chamberlain the Great.
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* {{Backstory}}: Lottie Whitt stops in to check on "Miz Gracie Ella" and is kind enough to not only explain to the kids whose house they're in, what happened to her deceased husband, and a great deal about her past, but also describes the layout of the house. Even more detail is revealed later when Lisa finds a whole pile of newspaper clippings, photos, and letters in a sideboard drawer--convenient, but also justified since Gracie Ella was both a pack rat and terrified to get rid of anything connected to her ManipulativeBastard husband. The backstories of the kids, on the other hand, are revealed gradually along the way.
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* {{Backstory}}: Lottie Lonnie Whitt stops in to check on "Miz Gracie Ella" and is kind enough to not only explain to the kids whose house they're in, what happened to her deceased husband, and a great deal about her past, but also describes the layout of the house. Even more detail is revealed later when Lisa finds a whole pile of newspaper clippings, photos, and letters in a sideboard drawer--convenient, but also justified since Gracie Ella was both a pack rat and terrified to get rid of anything connected to her ManipulativeBastard husband. The backstories of the kids, on the other hand, are revealed gradually along the way.
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* CacophonyCoverUp: When the kids first arrive at the house, the TV set in the living room is turned up unnaturally loud, despite the strange couple being young and not hard-of-hearing. While the woman who lives in the house is older and, according to Lonnie Whitt, her "hearing's not what it could be", the protagonists eventually deduce Chamberlain did this so that no one passing by the house would hear anything untoward. [[spoiler:Like Mrs. Gracie Ella screaming as the guillotine cuts her head off.]]
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* HostileHitchhiker: Played with; while the hitchhiker in question (Chamberlain) is very much hostile, it isn't toward the people who pick him up but instead toward the owner of the house he has them drop him off at. That said, Black Beard is clearly quite distressed by being in the house, both he and Tight Pants are worried by what they find when they bring him his jacket (the broken back door in the kitchen, the unnaturally-loud TV), and they're very eager to get out of there. Considering everything, it's likely he would have killed them if they gave him reason to, so it was wise to flee.
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Joan Lowery Nixon, a young adults' suspense/horror writer perhaps better known for ''The Seance'' and ''The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore'' (both of which won the Edgar Award), penned this tale of [[GenderEqualEnsemble Bo, Teena, Lisa, and Julian]], four high school students in Texas returning from a dramatics competition [[HostileWeather in the middle of a terrible thunderstorm]]. When the weather, flooding, and [[PlotDrivenBreakdown their car breaking down]] [[ClosedCircle forces them to take shelter in a nearby isolated house]], things immediately take a turn for the strange, with a very nervous man and his wife who don't seem to belong to the house giving them permission to stay and wait for a towtruck while they "[[BlatantLies go to a party]]". Things then proceed to become darker and creepier as the power goes out, the narrator Lisa begins getting the feeling they are not alone in the house, and some mysterious killer begins stalking them...a killer who seems to be a twisted and deadly magician.
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Joan Lowery Nixon, a young adults' suspense/horror writer perhaps better known for ''The Seance'' and ''The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore'' (both of which won the Edgar Award), penned this tale of [[GenderEqualEnsemble Bo, Teena, Lisa, and Julian]], four high school students in Texas returning from a dramatics competition [[HostileWeather in the middle of a terrible thunderstorm]]. When the weather, flooding, and [[PlotDrivenBreakdown their car breaking down]] [[ClosedCircle forces them to take shelter [[ClosedCircle in a nearby isolated house]], things immediately take a turn for the strange, with a very nervous man and his wife who don't seem to belong to the house giving them permission to stay and wait for a towtruck while they "[[BlatantLies go to a party]]". Things then proceed to become darker and creepier as the power goes out, the narrator Lisa begins getting the feeling they are not alone in the house, and some mysterious killer begins stalking them...a killer who seems to be a twisted and deadly magician.
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* StageMom: The motivations of all four of the kids' families. Bo's dad expects him to become a college football player, then run the family business. Julian's family wants him to become a doctor, like his father and grandfather before him. Teena is being pushed into law because "let's just say we need a black woman on the Supreme Court". And Lisa's family expects her to get top grades and go to a prestigious school just like her brother and sister. Comes across as a bit overdone, not to mention a coincidence, but it does serve to humanize and unite the characters, something they sorely need in their situation. Also, in an amusing but effective bit of linking the characters to the book's theme and the villain's backstory, Lisa at one point decides that they are all "illusionists" pretending their lives--i.e., they're all metaphorically on stage ''for'' their parents.
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* StageMom: The motivations of all four of the kids' families. Bo's dad expects him to become a college football player, then run the family business. Julian's family wants him to become a doctor, like his father and grandfather before him. Teena is being pushed into law because "let's just say we need a black woman on the Supreme Court". And Lisa's family [[EducationMama expects her to get top grades and go to a prestigious school just like her brother and sister.sister]]. Comes across as a bit overdone, not to mention a coincidence, but it does serve to humanize and unite the characters, something they sorely need in their situation. Also, in an amusing but effective bit of linking the characters to the book's theme and the villain's backstory, Lisa at one point decides that they are all "illusionists" pretending their lives--i.e., they're all metaphorically on stage ''for'' their parents.
