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* PoliceBrutality: The novel starts two years after Moss loses his father to a shooting that was racially motivated. It goes FromBadToWorse.
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* PoliceBrutality: The novel starts two six years after Moss loses his father to a shooting that was racially motivated. It goes FromBadToWorse.
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* AngerIsHealthyAesop: Moss, whose father was [[PoliceBrutality wrongfully killed by a cop]] before the events of the book and deals with even more injustice throughout, learns that sometimes being angry is the right response to fight for justice, rather than giving in to fear. [[spoiler: His efforts convince the guilty cop to turn himself in and the police to withdraw metal detectors from their school, though it's a BittersweetEnding.]]
--> "Anger is a gift. Remember that. [...] You gotta grasp onto it, hold it tight and use it as ammunition. You use that anger to get things done instead of just stewing in it.?
--> "Anger is a gift. Remember that. [...] You gotta grasp onto it, hold it tight and use it as ammunition. You use that anger to get things done instead of just stewing in it.?
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Esperanza is a lesbian and Latina, but it's indicated that being raised with rich, liberal white parents has given her a naive view on social justice and just what black and other people of color deal with regularly with the police.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Esperanza is a lesbian and Latina, but it's indicated that being raised with rich, liberal white parents has given her a naive view on social justice and just what black Black and other people of color deal with regularly with the police.police.
* InSeriesNickname: Moss is short for Morris. He goes by Moss as his father was also named Morris.
* InSeriesNickname: Moss is short for Morris. He goes by Moss as his father was also named Morris.
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* UnwittingTestSubject: A horrifying one; it's revealed that the cops are testing military technology meant for Aghanistan terrorists on the students, using the school for its "pilot program".
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* UnwittingTestSubject: A horrifying one; it's revealed that the cops are testing military technology meant for Aghanistan Afghanistan terrorists on the students, using the school for its "pilot program".
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Esperanza is a lesbian and Latina, but it's indicated that being raised with rich, liberal white parents has given her a naive view on social justice and just what black and other people of color deal with regularly with the police.
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* {{Transgender}}: Njemile and Shawna, two of Moss's friends are both trans girls, and his other friend Bits is non-binary.
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* TramuaCongaLine: Moss's father was killed before the events of the book, and then later [[spoiler: his school's protest is broken up by Oakland police horrifically leading to his boyfriend Javier being killed. Driven to the breaking point, Moss leads in impromptu protest in front of the police station, chained to a flagpole. That assembly was attacked by Oakland police, leading to much violence and one woman was even killed.]]
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* TramuaCongaLine: TraumaCongaLine: Moss's father was killed before the events of the book, and then later [[spoiler: his school's protest is broken up by Oakland police horrifically leading to his boyfriend Javier being killed. Driven to the breaking point, Moss leads in impromptu protest in front of the police station, chained to a flagpole. That assembly was attacked by Oakland police, leading to much violence and one woman was even killed.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: Moss finally gets justice when [[spoiler:the cop who killed Javier turns himself in and apologizes and the police withdraw the metal detectors/magnets at his school, but the dead are still dead, Reg's leg is beyond repair, and Moss will never receive true closure after being traumatized ''twice'' by his loved ones being murdered by the police]].
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* BittersweetEnding: Moss finally gets justice when [[spoiler:the cop who killed Javier turns himself in and apologizes and the police withdraw the metal detectors/magnets at his school, but the dead are still dead, Reg's leg is beyond repair, and Moss will never receive true closure after being traumatized ''twice'' by his loved ones being murdered by the police]].
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* CastFullOfGay: Almost all of Moss's friends, including himself are gay or transgender or both.
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* CastFullOfGay: Almost all of Moss's friends, including himself are gay non-heterosexual or transgender or both.
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A cop killed Moss's father merely for walking out of a convenience store at the wrong time. Since then, Moss goes to therapy to deal with crippling panic attacks, anxiety, and depression. He already feels uncomfortable that his high school has a police officer and as more regulation is added, his school feels more like a prison. Moss and his friends are determined to fight back and organize but when tensions escalate and tragedy happens again, Moss realizes that his anger can actually be a gift in driving change.
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A cop killed Moss's father merely for walking out of a convenience store at the wrong time. Since then, Moss goes to therapy to deal with crippling panic attacks, anxiety, and depression. He already feels uncomfortable that his high school has a police officer and as more regulation is added, his school feels more like a prison. Moss and his friends are determined to fight back and organize but when tensions escalate and tragedy happens again, Moss realizes learns that his anger can actually be a gift in driving change.sometimes being angry is the right response to fight for justice.
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* NiceGuy: Javier, Moss's LoveInterest, is a handsome and affable young man who Moss quickly falls in love with.
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Javier is killed by a police officer in the middle of the book, after spending chapters of building his relationship with Moss and solidifying the Oakland police as the villains.]]
* {{Transgender}}: Njemile and Shawna, two of Moss's friends are both trans girls, and his other friend Bits is non-binary.
* TramuaCongaLine: Moss's father was killed before the events of the book, and then later [[spoiler: his school's protest is broken up by Oakland police horrifically leading to his boyfriend Javier being killed. Driven to the breaking point, Moss leads in impromptu protest in front of the police station, chained to a flagpole. That assembly was attacked by Oakland police, leading to much violence and one woman was even killed.]]
* {{Transgender}}: Njemile and Shawna, two of Moss's friends are both trans girls, and his other friend Bits is non-binary.
* TramuaCongaLine: Moss's father was killed before the events of the book, and then later [[spoiler: his school's protest is broken up by Oakland police horrifically leading to his boyfriend Javier being killed. Driven to the breaking point, Moss leads in impromptu protest in front of the police station, chained to a flagpole. That assembly was attacked by Oakland police, leading to much violence and one woman was even killed.]]
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A cop killed Moss's father merely for walking out of a convenience store at the wrong time. Since then, Moss goes to therapy to deal with crippling panic attacks, anxiety, and depression. He already feels uncomfortable that his high school has a police
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* InnocentlyInsenstive: Esperanza is a lesbian and Latina, but it's indicated that being raised with white parents has given her a naive view on social justice and just what black and other people of color deal with regularly with the police.
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* InnocentlyInsenstive: InnocentlyInsensitive: Esperanza is a lesbian and Latina, but it's indicated that being raised with white parents has given her a naive view on social justice and just what black and other people of color deal with regularly with the police.
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* BittersweetEnding: Moss finally gets justice when [[spoiler:the cop who killed his father and Javier turns himself in and apologizes, with apologizes and the police withdraw the metal detectors being uninstalled detectors/magnets at his school, but the dead are still dead, Reg's leg is beyond repair, and Esperanza's parents don't understand why they are part of Moss will never receive true closure after being traumatized ''twice'' by his loved ones being murdered by the problem]].police]].
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* HumanGuineaPig: A horrifying one; it's revealed that the cops are testing military technology meant for Aghanistan terrorists on the students, using the school for its "pilot program".
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* UnwittingTestSubject: A horrifying one; it's revealed that the cops are testing military technology meant for Aghanistan terrorists on the students, using the school for its "pilot program".
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* PoliceBrutality: The novel starts two years after Moss loses his father to a shooting that was racially motivated. It goes FromBadToWorse.FromBadToWorse.
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Metal detectors do use magnets, but they don't rip out surgical pins. Magnets don't work that way.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: WordOfGod confirmed that the magnet-based metal detectors that cause [[spoiler:Reg to be hospitalized, and that can destroy cellphone batteries]] are real. [[ParanoiaFuel A good number of schools have metal detectors like that]].
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* HappilyAdopted: Explored. Esperanza never knew her birth parents,
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* HappilyAdopted: Explored. Esperanza never knew her birth parents, but her adopted ones love her. They just are clueless about their privilege.
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* LooseLips: [[spoiler:Esperanza telling her parents about the walkout lead to her father telling the principal, who in turn tells the police and "smugly" sends out a memo warning a teacher. No one at the church is happy, least of all Esperanza and Moss. Moss then later point-blank asks Esperanza to ''not'' listen in on new strategy]].
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''Anger Is A Gift'' is a Young Adult novel by [[Blog/MarkDoesStuff Mark Oshiro]].
A cop killed Moss's father merely for walking out of a convenience store at the wrong time. Since then, Moss goes to therapy to deal with crippling panic attacks, anxiety and depression. He already feels uncomfortable that his high school has a police officer,
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: WordOfGod confirmed that the magnet-based metal detectors that cause [[spoiler:Reg to be hospitalized, and that can destroy cellphone batteries]] are real. [[ParanoiaFuel A good number of schools have metal detectors like that]].
* BittersweetEnding: Moss finally gets justice when [[spoiler:the cop who killed his father and Javier turns himself in and apologizes, with the metal detectors being uninstalled but the dead are still dead, Reg's leg is beyond repair, and Esperanza's parents don't understand why they are part of the problem]].
* BullyingTheDisabled: The Resources Officers goes after Shawna, an epileptic, when he finds her pills in her locker and induces a seizure in her. Another tosses Reg into the metal detectors when he's merely asking if the sensors will affect his pins. [[spoiler:This ends up permanently crippling Reg]].
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Moss accuses the cop who murdered his father [[spoiler:and Javier]] of this.
* DudeNotFunny: Invoked; when the assistant principal brings [[spoiler:plans for the magnets and makes a joke about how earbuds kept some of the students from throwing up, Moss calls him out for making light of it. It's the administration's fault that the detectors were brought in the first place, hurting their students and that Javier died]].
* GoodParents: Wanda tries to be there for Moss, supports his budding relationship with Javier, and helps him when he wants to protest the metal detectors for Reg's and the other students' sake.
* HappilyAdopted: Explored. Esperanza never knew her birth parents,
* HumanGuineaPig: A horrifying one; it's revealed that the cops are testing military technology meant for Aghanistan terrorists on the students, using the school for its "pilot program".
* KickTheDog:
** The school "Resources Officer" has a habit of picking up students by the throat to make them comply.
** The cops hurt [[spoiler:a paramedic who merely asks that they give medical attention to Wanda]].
* LooseLips: [[spoiler:Esperanza telling her parents about the walkout lead to her father
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: It's implied that the cops [[spoiler:injuring an [=NBC=] reporter and killing Hayley, a white woman, during Moss's impromptu protest lead to a high amount of bad publicity, which means they let Moss and Wanda go with no charges. The city also offers a public apology and promises to remove the metal detectors]].
* PoliceAreUseless: Taken to the logical, most realistic extreme. Every subsequent action by the police in Oakland show that they're making the situation worse in the school and in the community.
* PoliceBrutality: The novel starts two years after Moss loses his father to a shooting that was racially motivated. It goes FromBadToWorse.
A cop killed Moss's father merely for walking out of a convenience store at the wrong time. Since then, Moss goes to therapy to deal with crippling panic attacks, anxiety and depression. He already feels uncomfortable that his high school has a police officer,
! Tropes for this book include:
* AluminumChristmasTrees: WordOfGod confirmed that the magnet-based metal detectors that cause [[spoiler:Reg to be hospitalized, and that can destroy cellphone batteries]] are real. [[ParanoiaFuel A good number of schools have metal detectors like that]].
* BittersweetEnding: Moss finally gets justice when [[spoiler:the cop who killed his father and Javier turns himself in and apologizes, with the metal detectors being uninstalled but the dead are still dead, Reg's leg is beyond repair, and Esperanza's parents don't understand why they are part of the problem]].
* BullyingTheDisabled: The Resources Officers goes after Shawna, an epileptic, when he finds her pills in her locker and induces a seizure in her. Another tosses Reg into the metal detectors when he's merely asking if the sensors will affect his pins. [[spoiler:This ends up permanently crippling Reg]].
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Moss accuses the cop who murdered his father [[spoiler:and Javier]] of this.
* DudeNotFunny: Invoked; when the assistant principal brings [[spoiler:plans for the magnets and makes a joke about how earbuds kept some of the students from throwing up, Moss calls him out for making light of it. It's the administration's fault that the detectors were brought in the first place, hurting their students and that Javier died]].
* GoodParents: Wanda tries to be there for Moss, supports his budding relationship with Javier, and helps him when he wants to protest the metal detectors for Reg's and the other students' sake.
* HappilyAdopted: Explored. Esperanza never knew her birth parents,
* HumanGuineaPig: A horrifying one; it's revealed that the cops are testing military technology meant for Aghanistan terrorists on the students, using the school for its "pilot program".
* KickTheDog:
** The school "Resources Officer" has a habit of picking up students by the throat to make them comply.
** The cops hurt [[spoiler:a paramedic who merely asks that they give medical attention to Wanda]].
* LooseLips: [[spoiler:Esperanza telling her parents about the walkout lead to her father
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: It's implied that the cops [[spoiler:injuring an [=NBC=] reporter and killing Hayley, a white woman, during Moss's impromptu protest lead to a high amount of bad publicity, which means they let Moss and Wanda go with no charges. The city also offers a public apology and promises to remove the metal detectors]].
* PoliceAreUseless: Taken to the logical, most realistic extreme. Every subsequent action by the police in Oakland show that they're making the situation worse in the school and in the community.
* PoliceBrutality: The novel starts two years after Moss loses his father to a shooting that was racially motivated. It goes FromBadToWorse.
