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* ADateWithRosiePalms: In the original novel, while Anney is giving birth, Glen does this while touching Bone. In the movie, however, he just molests her.
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** When Aunt Raylene finds out that Glen had beaten Bone, she tells her uncles to "Kill him."
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** When Aunt Raylene finds out that Glen had beaten Bone, she tells her uncles [[PapaWolf uncles]] to "Kill him."
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* IllGirl: Aunt Ruth that Bone briefly stays with, who later succumbs to cancer.
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* UselessBystanderParent: Anney is this to a fairly significant degree. It's not a completely straight example as she does try to protect Bone from Glen's abuse, but she also keeps forgiving him. This contradiction is evident at the climax, where she [[spoiler:immediately intervenes when she catches him raping Bone]], but then forgives him minutes later, with Bone sitting in the car begging her to just drive away.
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* UselessBystanderParent: Anney is this to a fairly significant degree. It's not a completely straight example as she does try to protect Bone from Glen's abuse, but she also keeps forgiving him. This contradiction is evident at the climax, where she [[spoiler:immediately intervenes when she catches him raping Bone]], but then forgives him minutes later, with all the while Bone is sitting in the car beside her begging her to just drive away.
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* UselessBystanderParent: Anney is this to a fairly significant degree. It's not a completely straight example as she does try to protect Bone from Glen's abuse, but she also keeps forgiving him. This contradiction is evident at the climax, where she [[spoiler:hits him to make him stop raping Bone]], but then forgives him minutes later before she's even taken Bone to the hospital.
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* UselessBystanderParent: Anney is this to a fairly significant degree. It's not a completely straight example as she does try to protect Bone from Glen's abuse, but she also keeps forgiving him. This contradiction is evident at the climax, where she [[spoiler:hits [[spoiler:immediately intervenes when she catches him to make him stop raping Bone]], but then forgives him minutes later before she's even taken later, with Bone to sitting in the hospital.car begging her to just drive away.
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* UselessBystanderParent: Anney is this to a fairly significant degree. It's not a completely straight example as she does try to protect Bone from Glen's abuse, but she also continues to seek Glen's affection and offer him forgiveness for his actions.
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* UselessBystanderParent: Anney is this to a fairly significant degree. It's not a completely straight example as she does try to protect Bone from Glen's abuse, but she also continues to seek Glen's affection and offer keeps forgiving him. This contradiction is evident at the climax, where she [[spoiler:hits him forgiveness for his actions.to make him stop raping Bone]], but then forgives him minutes later before she's even taken Bone to the hospital.
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* UselessBystanderParent: Anney is a downplayed version; she does try to protect Bone from Glen's abuse, but she isn't willing to actually leave him and keeps forgiving him for hurting Bone.
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* UselessBystanderParent: Anney is this to a downplayed version; fairly significant degree. It's not a completely straight example as she does try to protect Bone from Glen's abuse, but she isn't willing also continues to actually leave seek Glen's affection and offer him and keeps forgiving him forgiveness for hurting Bone.his actions.
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* ParentalFavoritism: For as nasty as Glen is to Bone, he's every bit the good and doting father to her sister Reese. The reason for this fairly extreme disparity isn't spelled out, although there are some hints in the movie that Glen resented Bone for not immediately accepting him as a father figure (such as when he tears up her photo of her previous stepfather Lyle).
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* ParentalFavoritism: For as nasty as Glen is to Bone, he's every bit the good and doting father to her sister Reese. The reason for this fairly extreme disparity isn't spelled out, although there are some hints in the movie that Glen resented Bone for not immediately accepting him as a father figure (such as when he gets mad at her refusal to call him "Daddy" and tears up her photo of her previous stepfather Lyle).
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* ParentalFavoritism: For as nasty as Glen is to Bone, he's every bit the good and doting father to her sister Reese. The reason for this fairly extreme disparity isn't spelled out, although there are some hints that Glen resented Bone for not immediately accepting him as a father figure.
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* ParentalFavoritism: For as nasty as Glen is to Bone, he's every bit the good and doting father to her sister Reese. The reason for this fairly extreme disparity isn't spelled out, although there are some hints in the movie that Glen resented Bone for not immediately accepting him as a father figure.figure (such as when he tears up her photo of her previous stepfather Lyle).
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* ConvenientMiscarriage: Well, not exactly "convenient", Anney has a stillbirth and is unable to have children again.
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* DeepSouth: More specifically in small ruralish town of 1950s Carolina (as the title states).
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In the book, the doctor is angry at Anney when he discovers Bone has a broken coccyx (tailbone) and makes it clear it could only be broken either purposely or through a really severe beating. He is then escorted away by the nurse, who says he's new here. At the time the book was set (the late 1950's) mandated reporting laws did not exist - and in the place the book was set (rural South) there was and to some extent still is a huge distrust of governmental bodies intervening in family affairs.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In the book, the doctor is angry at Anney when he discovers Bone has a broken coccyx (tailbone) and makes it clear it could only be broken either purposely or through a really severe beating. He is then escorted away by the nurse, who says he's new here. At the time the book was set (the late 1950's) mandated reporting laws did not exist - and in the place the book was set (rural South) there was and to some extent still is a huge distrust of governmental bodies intervening in family affairs.
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* DeepSouth: More specifically in small ruralish town of 1950s South Carolina (as the title states).
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** The whole part about Bone and her mother being looked down upon because Bone was born out of wedlock, including Bone's birth certificate stating she's "Illegitimate".
** In the book, the doctor is angry at Anney when he discovers Bone has a broken coccyx (tailbone) and makes it clear it could only be broken either purposely or through a really severe beating. He is then escorted away by the nurse, who says he's new here. At the time the book was set (the late 1950's) mandated reporting laws did not exist - and in the place the book was set (rural South) there was and to some extent still is a huge distrust of governmental bodies intervening in family affairs.
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** The whole part about Bone and her mother being looked down upon because Bone was born out of wedlock, including Bone's birth certificate stating she's "Illegitimate".
** In the book, the doctor is angry at Anney when he discovers Bone has a broken coccyx (tailbone) and makes it clear it could only be broken either purposely or through a really severe beating. He is then escorted away by the nurse, who says he's new here. At the time the book was set (the late 1950's) mandated reporting laws did not exist - and in the place the book was set (rural South) there was and to some extent still is a huge distrust of governmental bodies intervening in family affairs.
* LecherousStepparent: Glen begins molesting his young stepddaughter Bone [[spoiler:and eventually rapes her when she defies him]].
* MatureWorkChildProtagonists: Both the film and the semi-autobiographical book it was based on are centered around Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright, a young girl growing up in 1950s South Carolina; she's no older than 12 when the story ends (her actress Creator/JenaMalone was around 12 during filming). As the title suggests, a big part of the story is the stigma Bone and her mother face due to her [[BastardAngst being born out of wedlock]], which young children may not fully understand. The part that ''really'' cements that this story isn't for children is Bone's WickedStepfather Glen, who physically and sexually abuses her (which is depicted graphically enough to earn the film an R-rating) while [[ParentsAsPeople her mother]] zigzags between trying to protect her and being a UselessBystanderParent.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Though it didn't last long, Aunt Ruth plays this role to Bone. Later on, Raylene takes over this role.
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** Though it didn't last long, Aunt Ruth plays this role to Bone. Later on, Raylene takes over this role.
** Though it didn't last long, Aunt Ruth plays this role to Bone. Later on, Raylene takes over this role.
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* RapeAsDramaRapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:In the climax, when Bone refuses to live under the same roof as Glen again, he viciously beats and rapes her until Anney intervenes]].
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* TragicStillbirth: Anney has a stillbirth and is unable to have children again.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In the book, the doctor is angry at Anney when he discovers Bone has a broken coccyx (tailbone) and makes it clear it could only be broken either purposely or through a really severe beating. He is then escorted away by the nurse, who says he's new here. At the time the book was set (the late 1950's) mandated reporting laws did not exist - and in the place the book was set (rural South) there was and to some extent still is a huge distrust of governmental bodies intervening in family affairs.
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* UselessBystanderParent: Anney is a downplayed version; she does try to protect Bone from Glen in the moment, but her willingness to protect her child is seemingly superseded by her desire not to be alone, as she refuses to leave him time and again.
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* UselessBystanderParent: Anney is a downplayed version; she does try to protect Bone from Glen in the moment, Glen's abuse, but her willingness to protect her child is seemingly superseded by her desire not to be alone, as she refuses isn't willing to actually leave him time and again.keeps forgiving him for hurting Bone.
