%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample entries are not allowed on wiki pages. All such entries have been commented out. Add context to the entries before uncommenting them.
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/portada_club_hopewell.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350: It all started with a letter...]]

''[[http://www.wattpad.com/2873268-el-club-de-hopewell-capitulo-i-la-carta El Club de Hopewell]]'' (Spanish for "The Hopewell Club") is a web original comedy by Anthony Tesla (Anthony_H on this wiki) about the lives of three high school students: Allyson (a smart, cynical yet romantic girl), Jake (a criminal often involved in things that he doesn't even seem to be able to keep track of) and Sarah (a cute but mentally unstable gothic girl)

In essence, it's a SliceOfLife kind of work, with some cartoonish and surrealist elements thrown into the mix; the series doesn't take itself too seriously, subverting and lampshading all kinds of tropes and conventions about teen stories, but always in an affectionated way...

...when is not being...almost anything else. Due to the constant parodies, homages and OutOfGenreExperience scenarios, the book series is well known for not being that much of a teen comedy and more like a excuse for satirizing pop culture, both current and some other more "classical".

The story is available for reading in Spanish, but the author is looking for some help to translate it into other languages.
----
This series provides examples of:

%%* ActionGirl: Sarah, and to some degree, her grandmother too.
* AllJewsAreAshkenazi: Discused and played with Sarah: She comes from a white family, and her surname sounds Northern European (Greenberg), however, she is stated to have darker skin than her relatives. It's implied that she could have Sephardim blood, but since Sarah's mother ReallyGetsAround, it's theorized that Sarah could have either Mediterranean, Latin American or Middle Eastern heritage
%%* AllMenArePerverts: Jake.
* AbortedArc: The idea about the Principal La Fontaine and his backstory is abandoned early in the series when it was originally planned as a more explored theme. Fixed to a little degree in the Wattpad version, where is implied that [[spoiler: he might be Sarah's real father]].
* AdaptationExpansion: The Wattpad version includes new episodes and tries to close some holes from the original fictionpress version, and there are even new chapters for older stages of the series.
%%* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Allyson towards Ryan, her first crush.
* AllThereInTheManual: The blog of the author releaseas details about the characters from time to time.
* AffectionateParody: To Teen films and series in general, BUT specially the Degrassi franchise and the John Hughes's movies.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Sarah seems to be more like "whinesexual" and while she clearly has a preference for men, there are a couple of times when she doesn't seem to mind the gender of a person she's atracted to.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: more like "ambiguosly tanned", Sarah is declared as such, when the group is confronted as racist because all of them are white (ItMakesSenseInContext).
%%* AuthorAppeal: Parodies to all kind of films the author considers noteworthy
%%* BadassIsraeli: Mr. Weinbach, the PE teacher may be seen as a dark version of this trope
* BrainlessBeauty: Subverted with Allyson's older sister, Jessica. Allyson wants to believe she's the smart one and Jessica is a pretty-but-dumb kind of girl, but the truth is that Jessica is actually a good student and she always had better grades than Allyson
* BilingualBonus: From time to time. Russian, Armenian, French and Japanese have been used with no translation provided.
* BreakTheCutie: A mild example: in the Holiday's Special, Sarah is very excited to see her father for Hannukah [[spoiler: he doesn't arrive, she gets better tough]]
* BrilliantButLazy: If these kids put half the effort into school that he puts in getting high and avoiding school...
%%* TheBully: Jake
* CerebusSyndrome: ZigZagged: The earliest and latest episodes of the seasons always seem a little more serious that the big bunch in the middle
%%* CoolBigSis: The way Jessica (Allyson's older sister) likes to see herself; Allye begs to differ.
%%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Sarah
%%* CoolOldLady: Sarah's grandmother, Ruth
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Slighty, but the earlier episodes of the series show us small differences in two characters of the main cast.
** Allyson used to be more shy and silent; while she's still an introverted person, she's not afraid to make her voice be heard when in need.
** Sarah was always crazy and random, but her behavior wasn't always as "riskeé" as in latter episode.
* ChristmasSpecial: More like "Holiday" Special (Sarah being Jewish and Jake...part of the "Seinfeld Church"). Two, so far.
%%* ComedicSociopathy
* {{Crossover}}: Josh and Mel from another Tesla's series, "Conozcan a Josh" (Meet Josh).
* DamselInDistress: Discussed at one point, in words of Allyson: "Jake is the strong one, and Sarah is the trickster, and I am...the one who always would be kidnapped..."
* DarkerAndEdgier: Sorta. At least respect other teen books: The author once made clear than he actually loves teen comedies, but the ones that usually dominate websites like Wattpad and Fictionpress are very tame, corny or bland and he wanted to do something different and a edgier.
** To some degree, the second book from the series. The first was mostly silly and comedy oriented: The second includes relationships ending, mental breakdowns and death.
* DisappearedDad: Allyson and Sarah; Jake is more ambiguous about his situation with his mother
%%* DeadpanSnarker: Mostly Jake, but Allyson has her moments too.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Happens from time to time; favorite topics include politics and the electoral process and homages and parodies to different time periods.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The series always relied on surreal humor, but the very first saga sometimes seems more a relatively straight "teen crush" plot than the GenreRoulette work of fiction the book eventually became. The second saga was also more "childish" and no different than what you might find in, let's say, ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide''. Both arcs are now seen as more disperse, random and slow paced than the rest of the series. It wasn't until "Zapping", a one-shot chapter, when "El Club de Hopewell" really started to gain its characteristic traits.
* EruditeStoner: Averted: if anything, they are even dumber when high
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: It has been made implicit that the Arts Teacher (a female) has a crush on Sarah
* FieryRedhead: Inverted: If anything, Allyson is the shyest and less self-confident member of the group
%%* GenkiGirl: Sarah
* GenreRoulette: The author has even admited that the whole "teen comedy" aspect of the series is more a ExcusePlot, and that Hopewell really got its edge when it stopped trying to be a ordinary teen comedy and focused more in spoofing as many genres as it can
%%* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Allyson and her older sister, Jessica.
%%* GranolaGirl: Sarah's mother
* GuiltyPleasures: Each one of these kids has one especially embarrasing that is revealed late in the series
** Allyson [[spoiler: Her favorite film is ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', and she's actually a big Franchise/DisneyPrincess fangirl]]
** Jake [[spoiler: He likes Music/JoshGroban music because it reminds him his mother]] ItMakesSenseInContext
** Sarah [[spoiler: She turned out to be a YaoiFangirl. Then again, she doesn't exactly feel guilt]]
* GuyOnGuyIsHot: [[spoiler: One of Sarah's fetiches, but Allyson shows some aspects of being a YaoiFangirl too from time to time]]
%%* HighSchoolDance: towards the end of the first book.
%%* HighSchoolHustler: The three of them
%%* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood
%%* ImagineSpot: Allyson's dreams are often seen.
** And now, Sarah's too.
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Jake, but Allyson may qualify as well.
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler: After Will's death, Allyson and Jake did one to Sarah's mind in order to get her out of her mental breakdown.]]
%%* LadyOfAdventure: Sarah's grandmother
%%* LampshadeHanging: ALL OVER THE PLACE. It's actually a key element in Hopewell's humor.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Sarah could be considered as such. But then again, she hasn't been involved in the life of a male character in order to "spicy up" his life. In fact, it could be say that she's more of a odd variation, since if anything, the one she tries to make her life more colorful is Allyson.
%%* MediumAwareness
* MeaningfulName: To some degree. "Sarah" means "Princess" in Hebrew [[spoiler: it's revealed later in the series that her grandmother is a very rich woman and she wants to make Sarah her hereiss]]
%%* MetaGirl: Sarah
* MsFanservice: Sarah; she's described as a lot more atractive than Allyson, and as wearing more revealing clothes than her
%%* OddFriendship
* OnlySaneWoman: Allyson, but then again, while she is not exactly free of her own issues, she's pretty much normal compared to Jake and Sarah.
%%* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Pretty common between Allyson and her sister.
* ParentalBonus: While hardly a reader's parent would read this, it explains "la rasson d'etré" of some of the references: some are to stuff that most teens would be familiar with (''Literature/TheHungerGames'', ''Film/YouDontMessWithTheZohan'', ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'') but hardly a teen will understand some of the more obscure ones...
%%* PerkyGoth: Sarah
%%* PimpedOutDress: Seems to appear OnceASeason for some kind of fancy party: Sarah, being stylish as she is, doesn't mind very much, but Allye, the tomboy in turn, hates them with all her gutts.
%%* PostModernism
* PuttingOnTheReich: The chapters where the PE teacher takes control of the school and instaurates a very harsh regime, including mandatory uniforms, the creation of a secret police spying on their schoolmates nicknamed "Silent Security" and over emphasis on his speech of the need to crush the "outter and inner enemies" to justify his new policies. Cue to irony because the teacher is actually Jewish.
* PunBasedTitle: Several episodes, some in Spanish, other in English, some including "For A Fist Of Canadian Dollars", "Born This Nerd", "I Kissed A Friend (And I Like It)" , "The Kids Are All High", "Cinema Infernisso" and "How The Pest Was Born".
* TakeThatMe: Not in the series, but as much as the author loves his own creation, he often bashes the series for all his flaws.
%%* TrueCompanions: This is a series whose principal theme is friendship, after all
%%* RacistGrandma: Allyson's grannie
%%* TheRashomon: The way Allyson's parents explain how caused their divorce.
%%* RelationshipUpgrade
* RetiredBadass: Ruth, Sarah's grandmother; while it's never truly stated what she did in orden to accumulate her fortune, it's implied that she used to be an international spy.
%%* SeinfeldianConversation
* SadistTeacher: Parodied with the PE teacher, who is actually a former member of the Israeli Army that escaped to Canada in order to avoid presocution for crimes against humanity
* ShoutOut: Where do we even start? ''Film/CinemaParadiso'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'', ''Film/{{Network}}'', ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'', ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'', ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', ''Film/PrettyInPink''...
%%* ShrinkingViolet: Allyson, to a degree, early in the series
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Surprisingly, very idealistic. It even tries to rebuild the ol' ThePowerOfFriendship trope, indeed, in its own way ("We're alone in this stupid crappy place, at least we can try to hold on together and beat the shit out of them!")
%%* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Allyson's life is pretty good. Jake's and Sarah's...not so much.
* StalkerWithACrush: Toto, introduced in the second season, develops a crush on Allyson. Sarah to a degree with Josh Horwitz, a character from another series, "Meet Josh"
* StepfordSmiler: It's made unclear if Sarah's really that crazy or if it's the way she deals with her reality.
%%* StickyFingers: Jake
%%* StonersAreFunny: The drug use is always played for laughs
* StoryArc: Probably one of the defining traits of the series: unlike others Internet novels, that usually follow a single long narrative from begining to end, Hopewell is divided in arcs of about 3-4 episodes each, in order to give it a more "TV-like" sensation to the reader.
* SurrealHumor: Break the Fourth Wall or make meat rain from the sky, among other things
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: While Allyson is not that masculine, Sarah is a little more feminine in her clothing and her attitudes.
%%* TournamentArc: The archery episodes.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The series had a lot of changes before it became what it is now: two of the biggest changes were that originally it took place in London, and that the main cast were 5, not just 3 kids.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Colleen, Allyson's mother, is by far the best parent of any of the main protagonist, and yet she's barely seen in the series because she's such a workaholic. Sarah's mother, Jordan is a subversion since she's supposely to be always traveling out of the city because of her work...that usually means spend time in Music Festivals selling crafts and (MOSTLY) taking lots of drugs.
* WholePlotReference: Including Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff, Film/TwelveAngryMen and Film/TheHungerGames parodies
* ZombieApocalypse: More like a parody to the genre, but it still counts somehow
----