History Literature / BabyTeeth

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler:After a book of not speaking, Hanna asks Suzette, "Don't you miss me?" and if Suzette loves her enough.

* IrrationalHatred: Ever since she was very little, Hanna has always hated her mother and tried to make her life miserable in any way possible.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Well, there are, but none of them have any idea how to treat or diagnose a girl like Hanna who is very intelligent but hates everyone, won't talk, and enjoys hurting others.

* OffToBoardingSchool: A non-villainous example but [[spoiler:after multiple murder attempts by Hanna, her parents send her to Marshes, a boarding school specifically for children like her who have mental issues. She hates it and begs to come home, but they don't let her.]]

* DesperatePleaForHome: [[spoiler:After being in Marshes for about two weeks and hating it, Hanna phones her parents and begs to come home, promising to never be bad again. Suzette is briefly moved but believes Hanna is trying to manipulate them.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Alex spends most of the book being oblivious or in denial about Hanna's psychopathic behavior, but he really starts becoming this after the thumbtack incident. [[spoiler:Your daughter tried to kill your wife by putting thumbtacks beside her bed so she would step on them and then trying to enter her room with a hammer? Let's have a family holiday involving a bonfire and hand her a flaming stick! WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong? Unsurprisingly, Hanna tries to kill Suzette again by using the stick to bat flaming embers at her. This is the final straw that makes Alex agree to send her to the specialist boarding school.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:After Hanna tries to kill Suzette twice, she is sent away to a boarding school equipped to deal with her issues where she can't hurt anyone, guaranteeing that Alex and Suzette will be free of her for at least a year, possibly longer. However, Hanna has learned absolutely nothing from the incidents, with her only regret being that she didn't successfully kill her mother, and has secretly resolved to become even more cunning so she can get her revenge once she gets out.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:After two incidents where Hanna tries to kill Suzette, she is sent away to a boarding school equipped to deal with her issues where she can't hurt anyone, guaranteeing that Alex and Suzette will be free of her for at least a year, possibly longer. However, Hanna has learned absolutely nothing from the incidents, with her only regret being that she didn't successfully kill her mother, and has secretly resolved to become even more cunning so she can get her revenge once she gets out.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:After two incidents where Hanna tries to kill Suzette, she is sent away to a boarding school equipped to deal with her issues where she can't hurt anyone, guaranteeing that Alex and Suzette will be free of her for at least a year, possibly longer. However, Hanna has learned absolutely nothing from the incidents, with her only regrets being that she didn't successfully kill her mother. She has secretly resolved to become even more cunning so she can get her revenge once she gets out.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Alex spends most of the book being oblivious or in denial about Hanna's psychopathic behavior, but he really starts becoming this after the thumbtack incident. [[spoiler:Your daughter tried to kill your wife by putting thumbtacks beside her bed so she would step on them and then trying to enter her room with a hammer? Let's have a family holiday involving a bonfire and hand her a flaming stick! WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong? Unsurprisingly, Hanna tries to kill Suzette again by using the stick to bat flaming embers at her.]]

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: A girl in Hanna's kindergarten class named Aria loves fruit punch, so much that she refuses to drink milk or water. Hanna tricks her into drinking a glass of water mixed with red paint.