History Literature / Thr3e

!!Provides Examples Of:

%%* GrayEyes: Slater

* {{Serial Killer}}: The Riddle Killer, Slater, obviously.

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%%* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: Kevin Parson.]]

''Thr3e'' is a novel by Creator/TedDekker written in September 2003, with a film adaptation released in late 2006 (early 2007 in America).

Thr3e is a novel by Creator/TedDekker written in September 2003. with a film adaptation, released in late 2006, (early 2007 in America).

Kevin Parson, a young seminary student, gets a phone call from a man named Slater, who tells Kevin that if he doesn't confess his sin to the world in the next three minutes, his car will be blown sky high. Kevin panics, drives his car into a ditch, and three minutes later it explodes. He receives another call with the same basis and a bigger bomb. Together with FBI agent Jennifer Peters and CBI agent and childhood friend Samantha Sheer(Sam for short,) Kevin scrambles to beat Slater at his own game.

Thr3e is a novel by TedDekker written in September 2003. with a film adaptation, released in late 2006, (early 2007 in America).

Kevin Parson, a young seminary student, gets a phone call from a man named Slater, who tels Kevin that if he doesn't confess his sin to the world in the next three minutes, his car will be blown sky high. Kevin panics, drives his car into a ditch, and three minutes later it explodes. He receives another call with the same basis and a bigger bomb. Together with FBI agent Jennifer Peters and CBI agent and childhood friend Samantha Sheer(Sam for short,) Kevin scrambles to beat Slater at his own game.

* FishOutOfWater: Jennifer mentions that it's surprising that Keven can even function in society after his abusive, and isolated upbringing.

%%* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Sam and [[spoiler:Kevin, initiallly.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Belinda is in a way responsible for everything that happens in the book by isolating Kevin in a world of shifting realities and that practically forced him to split into two personalities, 1 good and 1 bad, and she gets absolutely no punishement whatsoever.]]

* AbusiveParents: Kevin's aunt, Pricilla, in the film.

* GrayEyes: Slater
* ImaginaryFriend: Samantha
* ImaginaryEnemy: Slater.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Sam and [[spoiler:Kevin, initiallly.]]

* KickTheDog: Well, more like ''blow up'' the dog.

* ManChild: [[InspirationallyDisadvantaged Bob Parson]], the son of Eugene and Pricilla.
* ParentalIssues: Kevin.
* PGExplosives

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: Kevin Parson.]]

* [[spoiler: SplitPersonality]]: [[spoiler:DoubleSubversion. Samantha believes that Kevin has a split personality that is the Riddle Killer, but in reality the killer is a different person. However, it's ''actually'' played straight when it's revealed that ''both'' Samantha and the Riddle Killer, Slater, are in fact two different personalities, who he created as a child.]]

* [[spoiler: TheKillerInMe]]: [[spoiler: Kevin is the Riddle Killer]].
* [[spoiler: TomatoInTheMirror]]: [[spoiler: Kevin Parson.]]

** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] as just when you think she's going to get away [[spoiler: with everything she did to poor Kevin]], she ends up [[spoiler: getting kidnapped by Slater and locked up in her own cellar]]
*** Not to mention an added dose of [[LaserGuidedKarma poetic justice]] when we find out that [[spoiler: Slater is really Kevin's evil multiple personality, created to help him roleplay the concept of evil that Belinda would not allow him to experience]]. On top of this [[spoiler: she gets her own moment of trauma as she watches her adoptive son fighting with his multiple personality to keep from shooting either her or himself]].

* [[spoiler: ImaginaryFriend]][[spoiler:/ImaginaryEnemy]]: [[spoiler: Samantha being the imaginary friend, while Slater is the imaginary enemy.]]

* {{Expy}}: The film's Riddle Killer has quite a bit in common with the [[{{Saw}} Jigsaw Killer]].

** [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] as just when you think she's going to get away [[spoiler: with everything she did to poor Kevin]], she ends up [[spoiler: getting kidnapped by Slater and locked up in her own cellar]]

* [[spoiler: SplitPersonality]] : [[spoiler: Averted. Samantha believes that Kevin has a split personality that is the Riddle Killer, but in reality the killer is a different person. However, it's ''actually'' played straight when it's revealed that ''both'' Samantha and the Riddle Killer, Slater, are in fact two different personalities, who he created as a child.]]

* CompleteMonster: Kevin Parson's aunt Belinda, who [[spoiler: drenched him in cold water regularly and beat him with hoses whenever he tried to interact with the outside world.]]
** Slightly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the book where she [[spoiler: shuts him up in his room to sleep off whatever he figured out that "wasn't real"]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] as some of the characters actually pointed out that his raising was "not necessarily terrible," [[spoiler: it just screwed him up for life]].
*** [[spoiler: But He got better]]

* AbusiveParents: Kevin's aunt, Pricilla, in the film.
* BlueEyes: Sam and (sometimes) Kevin.

Thr3e is a novel by TedDekker written in September 2003. The film adaptation came out in 2006.

Kevin Parson, a young seminary student gets a phone call from a man named Slater, who tels Kevin that if he doesn't confess his sin to the world in the next three minutes, his car will be blown sky high. Kevin panics, drives hi car into a ditch, and three minutes later it explodes. He receives another call with the same basis and a bigger bomb. Together with FBI agent Jennifer Peters and CBI agent and childhood friend Samantha Sheer(Sam for short,) Kevin scrambles to beat Slater at his own game.

* GrayEyes: Slater and .

* SerialKiller: Slater
* [[spoiler: SplitPersonality]] : Kevin, who the book reveals in the climax is [[spoiler: both Slater and Samantha.]]
* [[spoiler: TomatoInTheMirror]]: Kevin Parson.

!! This book provides examples of:

** Brutally [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] as just when you think she's going to get away [[spoiler: with everything she did to poor Kevin]], she ends up [[spoiler: getting kidnapped by Slater and locked up in her own cellar]]

*** [[spoiler: But [[IGotBetter He Got Better]]]]

------->''Enter a world where nothing is what it seems. Where your closest friend could be your worst enemy. Where black is white and white is black.''

* GreyEyes: Slater and .

* CompleteMonster: Kevin Parson's aunt Pricilla (in the movie), who [[spoiler: drenched him in cold water regularly and beat him with hoses whenever he tried to interact with the outside world.]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Pricilla is in a way responsible for everything that happens in the book by isolating Kevin in a world of shifting realities and that practically forced him to split into two personalities, 1 good and 1 bad, and she gets absolutely no punishement whatsoever.]]

* CompleteMonster: Kevin Parson's aunt Pricilla, who [[spoiler: drenched him in cold water regularly and beat him with hoses whenever he tried to interact with the outside world.]]

"Enter a world where nothing is what it seems. Where your closest friend could be your worst enemy. Where black is white and white is black."

* [[spoiler: TomatoInThe Mirror]]: Kevin Parson.

* IncorruptablePurePureness: Sam and [[spoiler:Kevin, initiallly.]]

Kevin Parson, a young seminary student gets a phone call from a man named Slater, who tels Kevin that if he doesn't confess his sin to the world in the next three minutes, his car will be blown sky high. Kevin panics, drives hi car into a ditch, and three minutes later it explodes. He receives another call with the same basis and a bigger bomb. Together with FBI agent Jennifer Peters and CBI agent and childhood friend Samantha sheer, Kevin scrambles to beat Slater at his own game.

* GreyEyes: Slater.

* IncorruptablePurePureness: Samantha and [[spoiler:Kevin, initiallly.]]

* SerialKiller: Slater
*
* [[spoiler: SplitPersonality]] : Kevin, who the book reveals in the climax is [[spoiler: both Slater and Jessica.]]

* [[spoiler: SplitPersonality]] : Again, Kevin Parson in Thr3e, who the book reveals in the climax is [[spoiler: both Slater and Jessica.]]
* [[spoiler: TomatoInThe Mirror]]: In Thr3e, Kevin Parson.