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* TheChewToy: The gang makes Dorothy one of these. [[spoiler: Later, they do this to Palmer]].
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* '''KidsAreCruel''': Beans is ''nine'' when the book starts and he's a borderline sociopath. Mutto's just as nasty, and even Palmer can be cruel if coerced into it.
* HeelRealization: Keeping Nipper does this for Palmer, showing him just how messed up his home town really is.
* HeelRealization: Keeping Nipper does this for Palmer, showing him just how messed up his home town really is.
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** Keeping Nipper does this for Palmer, showing him just how messed up his
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* MoralityPet: Nipper.
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* PeerPressureMakesYouEvil: Palmer skirts this trope as a consequence of wanting to be accepted by his peers.
* ARealManIsAKiller: This seems to be the town's point of view on wringers and Pigeon Day in general.
* ARealManIsAKiller: This seems to be the town's point of view on wringers and Pigeon Day in general.
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* IntentionalMessMaking: Palmer spits on the classroom floor to stay after school so that Nipper won't find him with the [[KidsAreCruel hooligans]].
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''Wringer'' is a ChildrensLiterature book by Jerry Spinelli.
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''Wringer'' is a ChildrensLiterature book by Jerry Spinelli.
Creator/JerrySpinelli.
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* HeelRealization: Keeping Nipper does this for Palmer, showing him just how messed up his home town really is.
** [[spoiler: Watching Palmer act to protect Nipper in front of everyone, knowing exactly how they've always acted towards kindness in general, does this for [[ShamingTheMob the people celebrating the annual festival]].]]
** [[spoiler: Watching Palmer act to protect Nipper in front of everyone, knowing exactly how they've always acted towards kindness in general, does this for [[ShamingTheMob the people celebrating the annual festival]].]]
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* VirtueIsWeakness: Those boys other than Palmer certainly think so. Any though whatsoever for lives of the pigeons is mocked and attacked.
* WhatTheHellHero: Dorothy [[spoiler: calls Palmer out for being and laughing with the gang as they pick on her]].
* WhatTheHellHero: Dorothy [[spoiler: calls Palmer out for being and laughing with the gang as they pick on her]].
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* VirtueIsWeakness: Those boys other than Palmer certainly think so. Any though thought whatsoever for lives of the pigeons is mocked and attacked.
* WhatTheHellHero: Dorothy [[spoiler: calls Palmer out for being in and laughing with the gang as they pick on her]].
* WhatTheHellHero: Dorothy [[spoiler: calls Palmer out for being in and laughing with the gang as they pick on her]].
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* VirtueIsWeakness: Those boys other than Palmer certainly think so. Any though whatsoever for lives of the pigeons is mocked and attacked.
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* NewberyMedal
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* MercyKill: What a wringer's job is - to wring the necks of any wounded pigeons in order to end their suffering.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Dorothy releases Nipper near the railroad tracks, which unbeknownst to her is the very place where they go to capture the pigeons.]]
* PeerPressureMakesYouEvil: Palmer skirts this trope as a consequence of wanting to be accepted by his peers.
* PeerPressureMakesYouEvil: Palmer skirts this trope as a consequence of wanting to be accepted by his peers.
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* ScaryTeeth: One of the boys in Beans' gang is nauseatingly described as having "Technicolor teeth".
* ShooTheDog: Not wanting Nipper to be found and used in the upcoming festival, Palmer has Dorothy smuggle the pigeon away to be released. [[spoiler:Sadly, this backfires.]]
* ShooTheDog: Not wanting Nipper to be found and used in the upcoming festival, Palmer has Dorothy smuggle the pigeon away to be released. [[spoiler:Sadly, this backfires.]]
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* WhatTheHellHero: Dorothy [[spoiler: calls Palmer out for being and laughing with the gang as they pick on her]].
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* WhatTheHellHero: Dorothy [[spoiler: calls Palmer out for being and laughing with the gang as they pick on her]].her]].
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* DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler: ''Barely'' averted. While Nipper is wounded, he survives]].
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* TheChewToy: The gang makes Dorothy one of these. [[spoiler: Later, they do this to Palmer]].
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* ARealManIsAKiller: This seems to be the town's point of view on wringers and Pigeon Day in general.
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* ARealManIsAKiller: This seems to be the town's point of view on wringers and Pigeon Day in general.general.
* WhatTheHellHero: Dorothy [[spoiler: calls Palmer out for being and laughing with the gang as they pick on her]].
* WhatTheHellHero: Dorothy [[spoiler: calls Palmer out for being and laughing with the gang as they pick on her]].
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* MoralityPet: Nipper.
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* MoralityPet: Nipper.Nipper.
* ARealManIsAKiller: This seems to be the town's point of view on wringers and Pigeon Day in general.
* ARealManIsAKiller: This seems to be the town's point of view on wringers and Pigeon Day in general.
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* '''KidsAreCruel''': Beans is ''nine'' when the book starts and he's borderline sociopathic. Mutto's just as nasty, and even Palmer can be cruel if coerced into it.
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* '''KidsAreCruel''': Beans is ''nine'' when the book starts and he's a borderline sociopathic.sociopath. Mutto's just as nasty, and even Palmer can be cruel if coerced into it.
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->Not all birthdays are welcome.
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Set in a town where pigeons are annually shot once a year for charity, the book deals with the pressure Palmer [=LaRue=] faces. He doesn't like the annual festival, and to make matters worse, he's almost 10, which is the year boys became wringers--any pigeons left alive after being shot have their necks wrung.
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Set in a town where pigeons are annually shot once a year for charity, the book ''Wringer'' deals with the peer pressure Palmer [=LaRue=] faces. He doesn't like the annual festival, and to make matters worse, he's almost 10, which is the year boys became wringers--any pigeons left alive after being shot have their necks wrung.
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The local gang doesn't help matters. A group of tough kids, Beans, Henry, and Mutto try to accept Palmer into their fold to become wringers, as well as pick on Dorothy, a girl Palmer secretly likes.
But there's something even worse that Palmer's keeping from all of them--his parents, the gang, Dorothy, and the town: He has a pet pigeon named Nipper.
And one day, that secret may be revealed...
But there's something even worse that Palmer's keeping from all of them--his parents, the gang, Dorothy, and the town: He has a pet pigeon named Nipper.
And one day, that secret may be revealed...
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The local gang doesn't help matters. A group of tough kids, Beans, Henry, and Mutto try to accept Palmer into their fold to become wringers, as well as pick on Dorothy, a girl Palmer secretly likes.
likes. But there's something even worse that Palmer's keeping from all of them--his parents, the gang, Dorothy, and the town: town.
He has a pet pigeon namedNipper.
AndNipper, and he must do everything in his power to keep it safe from the town that murders pigeons.
But one day, that secret may be revealed...
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But one day, that secret may be revealed...
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''Wringer'' is a ChildrensLiterature book by JerrySpinelli.
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''Wringer'' is a ChildrensLiterature book by JerrySpinelli.
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* '''KidsAreMonsters''': Beans is ''nine'' when the book starts and he's borderline sociopathic. Mutto's just as nasty, and even Palmer can be cruel if coerced into it.
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* '''KidsAreMonsters''': '''KidsAreCruel''': Beans is ''nine'' when the book starts and he's borderline sociopathic. Mutto's just as nasty, and even Palmer can be cruel if coerced into it.
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''Wringer'' is a ChildrensLiterature book by JerrySpinelli.
Set in a town where pigeons are annually shot once a year for charity, the book deals with the pressure Palmer [=LaRue=] faces. He doesn't like the annual festival, and to make matters worse, he's almost 10, which is the year boys became wringers--any pigeons left alive after being shot have their necks wrung.
The local gang doesn't help matters. A group of tough kids, Beans, Henry, and Mutto try to accept Palmer into their fold to become wringers, as well as pick on Dorothy, a girl Palmer secretly likes.
But there's something even worse that Palmer's keeping from all of them--his parents, the gang, Dorothy, and the town: He has a pet pigeon named Nipper.
And one day, that secret may be revealed...
!! This books contains examples of:
* '''KidsAreMonsters''': Beans is ''nine'' when the book starts and he's borderline sociopathic. Mutto's just as nasty, and even Palmer can be cruel if coerced into it.
* MoralityPet: Nipper.
Set in a town where pigeons are annually shot once a year for charity, the book deals with the pressure Palmer [=LaRue=] faces. He doesn't like the annual festival, and to make matters worse, he's almost 10, which is the year boys became wringers--any pigeons left alive after being shot have their necks wrung.
The local gang doesn't help matters. A group of tough kids, Beans, Henry, and Mutto try to accept Palmer into their fold to become wringers, as well as pick on Dorothy, a girl Palmer secretly likes.
But there's something even worse that Palmer's keeping from all of them--his parents, the gang, Dorothy, and the town: He has a pet pigeon named Nipper.
And one day, that secret may be revealed...
!! This books contains examples of:
* '''KidsAreMonsters''': Beans is ''nine'' when the book starts and he's borderline sociopathic. Mutto's just as nasty, and even Palmer can be cruel if coerced into it.
* MoralityPet: Nipper.
