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* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: A sad, realistic example. When Damon comes into the system, the Department of Social Services is horribly overworked and underfunded. DSS mostly forgets about Damon because there are so many children. DSS knows that Mr. Crickson aka "Creaky" takes in kids solely for the check and to use them as slave labor on his farm, but they still Damon there because there's just nowhere else. Damon's case worker Miss Barks means well but really is just marking time until she can go to college and get a teaching degree. Miss Barks completely forgets about getting Damon clothes before sending him to Creaky's farm; when she finally remembers weeks later and says that she'll get his clothes Damon boggles at how he would have been living in filthy rags for weeks if he'd depended on her.
** Miss Barks, Damon's social worker, tells him that she's quitting the DSS to become an elementary school teacher. Damon thinks ruefully about how DSS pays so little that the only people it attracts are losers and burnouts.
** Miss Barks, Damon's social worker, tells him that she's quitting the DSS to become an elementary school teacher. Damon thinks ruefully about how DSS pays so little that the only people it attracts are losers and burnouts.
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* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: A sad, realistic example. When Damon comes into the system, the Department of Social Services is horribly overworked and underfunded. DSS mostly forgets about Damon because there are so many children. DSS knows children; they know that Mr. Crickson aka "Creaky" takes in kids solely for the check and to use them as slave labor on his farm, but they still send Damon there because there's just nowhere else. else he can go. Damon's case worker Miss Barks means well but really is just marking time until she can go to college and get a teaching degree. Miss Barks degree; she completely forgets about getting Damon clothes before sending him to Creaky's farm; farm, and when she finally remembers weeks later and says that she'll get his clothes Damon boggles at how he would have been living in filthy rags for weeks if he'd depended on her.
** Miss Barks, Damon's social worker,her. When she tells him that she's quitting the DSS to become an elementary school teacher. teacher, Damon thinks ruefully about how DSS pays so little that the only people it attracts are losers and burnouts.
** Miss Barks, Damon's social worker,
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* SnowMeansLove: It's snowing as Damon and Angus drive to the ocean together on the last page of the book, Damon having finally realized that she loves him and they are meant to be together.
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* LettingHerHairDown: In the last chapter. Damon finally meets Angus again after several years. He compliments her on her hat, and she takes it off. It seems to be the first time Damon sees her as a woman: "Set free, her hair sprang into action, somehow girlier than it used to be."
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* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Damon, who is smart but pretty ignorant of the wide world, completely misses Mouse's allusion to a famous movie, in an exchange that also foreshadows Fast Forward's pursuit of Emmy.
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* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: A RunningGag with Damon, who is smart smart, but pretty ignorant of the wide world, completely wider world.
** Damon misses Mouse's allusion to a famous movie, in an exchange that also foreshadows Fast Forward's pursuit of Emmy.
** Damon misses Mouse's allusion to a famous movie, in an exchange that also foreshadows Fast Forward's pursuit of Emmy.
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** Near the end, June says that Emmy is living in Asheville with other girls in recovery, in a building where Creator/GraceKelly once lived.
-->I didn't know who that was, but acted impressed.
-->I didn't know who that was, but acted impressed.
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* TheAlcoholic: Coach Wickfield, Angus's father and Damon's guardian, who, when he isn't coaching the high school football team, is drinking too much. This is how U-Haul gets his hooks into Coach for a time.
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* FanDisservice: When Damon and June find Emmy in a drug den in Atlanta. Emmy is out cold, along with another woman. Emmy is wearing no top, and the other woman is wearing no bottom. Damon thinks of them as two Barbie dolls each sharing half of the same outfit.
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Damon is offended when he goes to Dr. Watts's pill mill, and Watts, the man who as team physician got him hooked on oxy in the first place, doesn't even recognize him.
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* MisterMuffykins: Damon hates Dora's loud, yapping, bitey little "rat's ass" of a dog, Jip. (Dora's Jip from ''David Copperfield'' may be the TropeMaker.)
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--'''Damon''': "Stumpy fucking Fiddles [[TakeThat is garbage]]."
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* BlandNameProduct: One of the sub-themes of the book is how the rest of America demeans and insults the people of Appalachia as hillbillies and rednecks. Tommy, who has gotten a job at the local newspaper, takes particular offense at a newspaper comic called ''Stumpy Fiddles'' that is nothing more than a collection of lazy, insulting hillbilly stereotypes. ''Stumpy Fiddles'' is an obvious analog of RealLife comic ''ComicStrip/SnuffySmith''.
--'''Damon''': "Stumpy fucking Fiddles [[TakeThat is garbage]]."
--'''Damon''': "Stumpy fucking Fiddles [[TakeThat is garbage]]."
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* EdgyBackwardsChairSitting: Stoner does this when he comes home from work, on the same day that Damon has come home from foster care. "He turned one of the kitchen chairs around and sat in it backward, straddling it with his arms folded on the back." It's a clear effort to intimidate his 10-year-old stepson.
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** Stoner does this when he comes home from work, on the same day that Damon has come home from foster care. "He turned one of the kitchen chairs around and sat in it backward, straddling it with his arms folded on the back." It's a clear effort to intimidate his 10-year-oldstepson.stepson.
** Much later, after Damon says "You hate Dori, don't you?", Angus does this. Damon reflects on when Stoner did it and how two people couldn't be any more different, before Angus tells the truth: no, she likes Dori, because Dori makes Damon happy.
** Stoner does this when he comes home from work, on the same day that Damon has come home from foster care. "He turned one of the kitchen chairs around and sat in it backward, straddling it with his arms folded on the back." It's a clear effort to intimidate his 10-year-old
** Much later, after Damon says "You hate Dori, don't you?", Angus does this. Damon reflects on when Stoner did it and how two people couldn't be any more different, before Angus tells the truth: no, she likes Dori, because Dori makes Damon happy.
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It is in fact an update of Creator/CharlesDickens's ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'', set in 20th and 21st century Appalachia. The protagonist is one Damon Fields, who gets the nickname "Demon Copperhead", the latter coming from his red hair. The plot follows ''David Copperfield'' pretty closely, right down to Damon being born with a caul like David Copperfield was--except Damon is born to a teenaged mother who lives alone in a trailer park and has struggled with alcoholism and drug addiction. "Mom" Fields tries to stay sober and keep her job at Walmart so she can look after David, and her neighbors the Peggots (taken from the Peggotys in ''David Copperfield'') try and help her out. But when Mom marries an abusive, thoroughly evil truck driver, Murrell Stone aka "Stoner" (Mr. Murdstone in ''David Copperfield'') things get much worse for young Damon.
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It is in fact an update of Creator/CharlesDickens's ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'', set in 20th and 21st century Appalachia. The protagonist is one Damon Fields, who gets the nickname "Demon Copperhead", the former a nickname for "Damon" and the latter coming from his red hair. The plot follows ''David Copperfield'' pretty closely, right down to Damon being born with a caul like David Copperfield was--except Damon is born to a teenaged mother who lives alone in a trailer park and has struggled with alcoholism and drug addiction. "Mom" Fields tries to stay sober and keep her job at Walmart so she can look after David, and her neighbors the Peggots (taken from the Peggotys in ''David Copperfield'') try and help her out. But when Mom marries an abusive, thoroughly evil truck driver, Murrell Stone aka "Stoner" (Mr. Murdstone in ''David Copperfield'') things get much worse for young Damon.
* DrFeelgood: Dr. Watts, the football team's physician, is a little too eager to prescribe Damon the opioids that, sure enough, he gets hooked on. Later, Damon finds out that Dr. Watts runs a pill mill that caters to oxy addicts.
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Mouse asked if we were discussing [[Film/TheGraduate Mrs. Robinson and Elaine]], and I told her I didn't know them. "Are they Lee County Robinsons?\\
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Mouse asked if we were discussing [[Film/TheGraduate Mrs. Robinson and Elaine]], and I told her I didn't know them. "Are they Lee County Robinsons?\\Robinsons?"\\
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** Angus says Damon, whose knee was never properly treated, is still limping around "like [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Quasimodo]]". Damon's angry response is "I don't really know who that is, but thanks."
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* DramaticSitDown: Betsy Woodall does this when a filthy, bedraggled Damon makes to her house after a long and difficult journey, finds her in the front yard, and announces that he is her grandson.
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* DramaticSitDown: Betsy Woodall does this when a filthy, bedraggled Damon makes to her house after a long and difficult journey, finds her in the front yard, and announces that he is her grandson.grandson, whom she has never met.
