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* TeenPregnacy: Discussed between Eleanor and Sabrina when the latter tells the former that the teenage daughter of a family friend has gotten pregnant by a black boy, and the family is in an uproar over it.
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* EveryOneCallsHimBarKeep: Mouse. His birth name is Jeremiah, but they've called him Mouse since he was a baby for reasons Eleanor can't remember.
*NoNameGiven: We never find out the name of Eleanor's father. He's only called "her/your father", Dad, and he/him.
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** Richie giving all his stepchildren Christmas presents. (Fifty dollars to buy clothes for Eleanor, a toy car racetrack for Ben, a keyboard for Maisie, a remote control car for Mouse, and a teddy bear for Little Richie.) Subverted in that Eleanor doesn't appreciate it, and she gives the money to her mother. mother.
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* TeenPregnacy: Discussed between Eleanor and Sabrina when the latter tells the former that the teenage daughter of a family friend has gotten pregnant by a black boy, and the family is in an uproar over it.
** It's also implied that Sabrina and her first husband had Eleanor when they were in their senior year of high school.
** It's also implied that Sabrina and her first husband had Eleanor when they were in their senior year of high school.
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* IconicOutfit: Not exactly iconic, but Eleanor's Vans with strawberries on them and her green sharkskin jacket get mentioned a lot throughout the book.
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It's 1986. '''Eleanor''' is the new girl in town, returning home to her mother, stepfather, and brothers and sister after spending a year away from them. With her chaotic family life, her mismatched fashion sense, and her bright red hair, she sticks out like a sore thumb. '''Park''' is the boy at the back of the bus. Withdrawn, bookwormish, and in a stable family, he's convinced he's made himself invisible. After Eleanor ends up as Park's reluctant bus seatmate, they start out ''hating'' each other. But slowly, over comic books and late-night phone calls, Eleanor and Park fall in love, and have to deal with the consequences.
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It's 1986. '''Eleanor''' is the new girl in town, returning home to her mother, stepfather, and brothers and sister after spending a year away from them. With her chaotic family life, her mismatched fashion sense, and her bright red hair, she sticks out like a sore thumb. '''Park''' is the boy at the back of the bus. Withdrawn, bookwormish, and in a stable family, he's convinced he's made himself invisible. After Eleanor ends up as Park's reluctant bus seatmate, they start out ''hating'' each other. But slowly, over mixtapes and comic books and late-night phone calls, Eleanor and Park fall in love, and have to deal with the consequences.
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**For Eleanor, it's being asked about her family and past. She ''really'' doesn't want to talk about it.
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*CoolBigSis: Eleanor tries to be this to her siblings, comforting them when their mother and stepfather fight. She's not perfect, but she cares about them.
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It's 1986. '''Eleanor''' is the new girl in town.town, returning home to her mother, stepfather, and brothers and sister after spending a year away from them. With her chaotic family life, her mismatched fashion sense, and her bright red hair, she sticks out like a sore thumb. '''Park''' is the boy at the back of the bus. Withdrawn, bookwormish, and in a stable family, he's convinced he's made himself invisible. After Eleanor ends up as Park's reluctant bus seatmate, they start out ''hating'' each other. But slowly, over comic books and late-night phone calls, Eleanor and Park fall in love, and have to deal with the consequences.
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* IKnowKungFu: Park knows taekwondo, and uses it to smash Steve's teeth in at point.\
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* BrickJoke: It is stated at the very beginning of the book that Steve often breaks his fingers when punching people. A few hundred pages later, [[spoiler: he and Park fight; Parks knocks his teeth of with a kick and Steve punches in return. Hard. and breaks his fingers.]]
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* IronicEcho:
--> "What friend?"
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--> "What friend?"
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* NoEndorHolocaust: At the end of the book, Eleanor [[spoiler; [[spoiler: while living with her aunt and uncle]] writes a letter to her mother [[spoiler: threatening to call the police if she doesn't leave with Eleanor's brothers and sisters]]. When Parker comes across the house, he realizes that Richie [[spoiler: has been living alone.]]
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Double-subverted. After helping ELeanor [[spoiler: escape Richie]], he comes across the latter drunk, and completely inebriated. Parker considers [[spoiler: killing him, but instead kicks dirt into his face.]] Richie completely deserved it.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Double-subverted. After helping ELeanor Eleanor [[spoiler: escape Richie]], he comes across the latter drunk, and completely inebriated. Parker considers [[spoiler: killing him, but instead kicks dirt into his face.]] Richie completely deserved it.
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* DadTheVeteran: Park's father served in the Korean War; he met his mother Mindy there and brought her home with him to America. As such, he's sufficiently somewhat aloof to Park.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Double-subverted. After helping ELeanor [[spoiler: escape Richie]], he comes across the latter drunk, and completely inebriated. Parker considers [[spoiler: killing him, but instead kicks dirt into his face.]] Richie completely deserved it.
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*TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: Eleanor's postcard to Park at the end of the book is "Just three words long", but exactly what the three words are is never revealed.]]
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* AdultsAreUseless: Discussed, played horrifyingly straight in the case of Eleanor's parents and step-parents, and mostly averted with Park's parents.
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* [[ForeShadowing Foreshadowing]]: The class discussion on RomeoAndJuliet, the most famous StarCrossedLovers in English history. Eleanor expresses disgust with the idea that Romeo feels true love for a girl he just met. This plays out when Park [[spoiler: to keep Eleanor safe drives her to her uncle's house.]]
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Eleanor considers [[spoiler: staying at home for the summer, to be with Park, but he drives her to her uncle's house to keep her safe from Richie.]]
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Notable mainly for two things: being insanely popular (it was voted 2013's best YA book on goodreads.com) and for being banned in a number of school districts thanks to the usual suspects of MoralGuardians (principally for the depiction of underaged sexual relationships).
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** Averted by Eleanor's actual stepmother, married to her [[ParentalNeglect distant biological father.]] [[spoiler:She catches Eleanor stealing from them, but looks the other way and doesn't say anything about it.]]
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: In-universe, Eleanor describes Park's skin as honey-gold and tries to guess his ethnicity.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: In-universe, Eleanor describes Park's skin as honey-gold and tries to guess his ethnicity. He's Korean-American.
* BlackBestFriend: Eleanor gets two, [=DeNice=] and Beebi.
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* FosterKid: Richie once threw Eleanor out of the house in a fit of rage, and she spent an entire ''year'' living with family friends.
* HairTriggerTemper: Richie gets mad at the drop of a hat, part of his AbusiveParents schtick. Once he got so angry he threw Eleanor out and didn't let her come home for an entire year.
* HappilyMarried: Park'sparents, parents are clearly very much into each other, in stark contrast to Eleanor's broken family. This is partly why she doesn't initially feel like she belongs with him.
* HairTriggerTemper: Richie gets mad at the drop of a hat, part of his AbusiveParents schtick. Once he got so angry he threw Eleanor out and didn't let her come home for an entire year.
* HappilyMarried: Park's
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* TeamMom: Eleanor to her younger siblings; they clearly look up to her and she comforts them in times of crisis.
* ThoseTwoGirls:[= DeNice=] and Beebi, two black girls who befriend Eleanor after one of Tina's bullying incidents, are often around to bolster her confidence, eat lunch with her, and provide running commentary on happenings.
* UnderstandingBoyfriend: Park is this trope embodied. He's protective of Eleanor, helps her grow out of her insecurities, and shares her interests. He's this trope to the point of being willing to [[spoiler: ''drive her to Minnesota in the middle of the night'' so she can get away from Richie, even if it means their separation]].
* ThoseTwoGirls:[= DeNice=] and Beebi, two black girls who befriend Eleanor after one of Tina's bullying incidents, are often around to bolster her confidence, eat lunch with her, and provide running commentary on happenings.
* UnderstandingBoyfriend: Park is this trope embodied. He's protective of Eleanor, helps her grow out of her insecurities, and shares her interests. He's this trope to the point of being willing to [[spoiler: ''drive her to Minnesota in the middle of the night'' so she can get away from Richie, even if it means their separation]].
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''Eleanor & Park'' is a 2013 YoungAdult novel by Rainbow Rowell.
It's 1986. NewTransferStudent Eleanor Douglas steps onto Park Sheridan's school bus for the first time, and finds herself his reluctant new bus seatmate.
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* AbusiveParents: Eleanor's home life is far from ideal: her stepfather Richie is emotionally and physically abusive to her and her siblings, while her biological father is uncaring and distant. Eleanor's mother ends up catering to Richie's every whim.
* AlphaBitch: Tina, who tries her best to make Eleanor feel unwelcome.
* BerserkButton: For Park, it's making fun of Eleanor.
* AlphaBitch: Tina, who tries her best to make Eleanor feel unwelcome.
* BerserkButton: For Park, it's making fun of Eleanor.
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* AbusiveParents: Eleanor's home life is far from ideal: her stepfather Richie is emotionally and physically abusive to her and her siblings, while her biological father is uncaring and distant. Eleanor's mother ends up catering to Richie's every whim.
whim. [[spoiler: Near the final act, it's heavily implied that Richie is a sexual predator with his eyes on Eleanor.]]
* AlphaBitch: Tina, who is the most popular girl at school and tries her best to make Eleanor feel unwelcome.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: In-universe, Eleanor describes Park's skin as honey-gold and tries to guess his ethnicity.
* BerserkButton: For Park, it's making Eleanor upset. When Steve makes fun ofEleanor.her, Park kicks his teeth in.
* AlphaBitch: Tina, who is the most popular girl at school and tries her best to make Eleanor feel unwelcome.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: In-universe, Eleanor describes Park's skin as honey-gold and tries to guess his ethnicity.
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* ChickMagnet: It's implied Park's good looks net him a lot of female attention he doesn't really reciprocate, such as Kim and the girl from work.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Park loves Eleanor's red hair.
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* IKnowKungFu: Park knows taekwondo, and uses it to smash Steve's teeth in at point.
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admission. While he enjoys comics and does taekwondo and is seen playing basketball at one point, he says himself that he wasn't the traditionally masculine son his father wanted. [[spoiler: His father completely flips out when Park wears makeup to school]].
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Park becomes this to Eleanor earlyon.on; spending time with him becomes her motivation for going on because of her shitty home and school life. He seems to have willingly embraced this role, however, saying that he wanted to do everything in his power to ''make'' her happy.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Park, by his own
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Park becomes this to Eleanor early
* PetTheDog:
** Richie giving all his stepchildren Christmas presents. Subverted in that Eleanor doesn't appreciate it.
** [[spoiler: On the night Eleanor runs away, Tina and Steve comfort her and take her in for a while.]]
** Richie giving all his stepchildren Christmas presents. Subverted in that Eleanor doesn't appreciate it.
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* RedHerring: [[spoiler: It wasn't Tina or any of her cronies writing disgusting things on Eleanor's books -- it was actually Richie.]]
* RedheadsAreUncool: Eleanor is picked on at school for having weird fashion sense, being a FatGirl, and having bright red hair.
* TheRunaway: [[spoiler: Eleanor becomes this at the end, Park having spirited her away to live with her uncle in Minnesota on the night they discover Richie's intentions.]]
* SatelliteCharacter: Cal (and by extension Kim) only exist to interact with Park and remind the readers that he has a life besides Eleanor.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Park's parents. When Eleanor comments that they're HappilyMarried, Park's narration says she doesn't have the half of it and that they were probably making out right now.
* RedheadsAreUncool: Eleanor is picked on at school for having weird fashion sense, being a FatGirl, and having bright red hair.
* TheRunaway: [[spoiler: Eleanor becomes this at the end, Park having spirited her away to live with her uncle in Minnesota on the night they discover Richie's intentions.]]
* SatelliteCharacter: Cal (and by extension Kim) only exist to interact with Park and remind the readers that he has a life besides Eleanor.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Park's parents. When Eleanor comments that they're HappilyMarried, Park's narration says she doesn't have the half of it and that they were probably making out right now.
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-->'''Eleanor''': Barriers. Caution tape. I'm doing you a favor.
-->'''Eleanor''': Barriers. Caution tape. I'm doing you a favor.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Eleanor to [[LivingEmotionalCrutch Park]]. For starters, she flips out when she finds out that Park used to go out with Tina.
* FieryRedhead: A lot of emphasis is given to Eleanor's bright red hair. Her abrasiveness is partly because of this.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Park becomes this to Eleanor early on.
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* YouNoTakeCandle: Park's mother speaks like this, years after she came to America from Korea.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Park's mother speaks like this, years after she came to America from Korea.
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''Eleanor & Park'' is a 2013 YoungAdult novel by Rainbow Rowell.
It's 1986. NewTransferStudent Eleanor Douglas steps onto Park Sheridan's school bus for the first time, and finds herself his reluctant new bus seatmate.
* AbusiveParents: Eleanor's home life is far from ideal: her stepfather Richie is emotionally and physically abusive to her and her siblings, while her biological father is uncaring and distant. Eleanor's mother ends up catering to Richie's every whim.
* AlphaBitch: Tina, who tries her best to make Eleanor feel unwelcome.
* BerserkButton: For Park, it's making fun of Eleanor.
* BigLittleBrother: Park fears his younger brother Josh will become this at the rate he's growing.
* CelebrityResemblance: Eleanor says Park's father looks like Tom Selleck.
* DadTheVeteran: Park's father served in the Korean War; he met his mother Mindy there and brought her home with him to America. As such, he's sufficiently somewhat aloof to Park.
* EightiesHair: Tina has a massive hairdo.
* FatGirl: What Eleanor believes to be the reason for her unpopularity.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Steve is huge, while his girlfriend Tina barely breaks five feet.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Park, by his own admission.
* NewTransferStudent: Eleanor at the beginning of the book.
* NiceGuy: Park, who is unassuming, approachable, devoted, and extraordinarily kind to Eleanor.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Tina, Steve, and their cronies are portrayed as ignorant, sizeist, and racist.
* PrettyBoy: Park. Eleanor praises his good looks several times, and at one point calls him prettier than a girl in her narration.
* StacysMom: Steve calls Park's mom hot in one scene, much to his disgust; Eleanor also calls her pretty. Eleanor's mother is also beautiful; Park's grandmother compares her to a movie star at one point.
* WhenSheSmiles: ''Defied''.
-->'''Park''': Hey. I told you to smile because you're pretty when you smile.
-->'''Eleanor''': It'd be better if you thought I was pretty when I don't.
It's 1986. NewTransferStudent Eleanor Douglas steps onto Park Sheridan's school bus for the first time, and finds herself his reluctant new bus seatmate.
* AbusiveParents: Eleanor's home life is far from ideal: her stepfather Richie is emotionally and physically abusive to her and her siblings, while her biological father is uncaring and distant. Eleanor's mother ends up catering to Richie's every whim.
* AlphaBitch: Tina, who tries her best to make Eleanor feel unwelcome.
* BerserkButton: For Park, it's making fun of Eleanor.
* BigLittleBrother: Park fears his younger brother Josh will become this at the rate he's growing.
* CelebrityResemblance: Eleanor says Park's father looks like Tom Selleck.
* DadTheVeteran: Park's father served in the Korean War; he met his mother Mindy there and brought her home with him to America. As such, he's sufficiently somewhat aloof to Park.
* EightiesHair: Tina has a massive hairdo.
* FatGirl: What Eleanor believes to be the reason for her unpopularity.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Steve is huge, while his girlfriend Tina barely breaks five feet.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Park, by his own admission.
* NewTransferStudent: Eleanor at the beginning of the book.
* NiceGuy: Park, who is unassuming, approachable, devoted, and extraordinarily kind to Eleanor.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Tina, Steve, and their cronies are portrayed as ignorant, sizeist, and racist.
* PrettyBoy: Park. Eleanor praises his good looks several times, and at one point calls him prettier than a girl in her narration.
* StacysMom: Steve calls Park's mom hot in one scene, much to his disgust; Eleanor also calls her pretty. Eleanor's mother is also beautiful; Park's grandmother compares her to a movie star at one point.
* WhenSheSmiles: ''Defied''.
-->'''Park''': Hey. I told you to smile because you're pretty when you smile.
-->'''Eleanor''': It'd be better if you thought I was pretty when I don't.
