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* SequelHook: "Yes, always more tales. And perhaps, one day, I'll tell you another." (In fact, there is a sequel-of-sorts about the Club at 249B: "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands" from ''Literature/SkeletonCrew''.)
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* SequelHook: "Yes, always more tales. And perhaps, one day, I'll tell you another." (In fact, there is a sequel-of-sorts about the Club at 249B: "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands" from ''Literature/SkeletonCrew''. Unfortunately, this is the only other story from the club.)
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* TheTeetotaler: Chris refuses to drink, because he's afraid that he would become an alcoholic like his father and his older brothers. Gordie notes that one might find this funny because Chris is only twelve, but he was completely serious about it.
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* TheTeetotaler: Chris refuses to drink, because he's afraid that he would become an alcoholic like his father and his older brothers. Gordie notes that one might find this funny because Chris is only twelve, but he was completely serious about it.it (and given how his family is, he's probably right to be).
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* AbusiveParents: Teddy's ears are disfigured due to his father's pressing them down on a hot stove in a drunken rage. Chris's father is also violently abusive, and Gordie's is emotionally abusive, clearly favoring Gordie's older brother over him, despite the fact that said brother is dead.
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* AbusiveParents: Teddy's ears are disfigured due to his father's pressing them down on a hot stove in a drunken rage. Chris's father is also violently abusive, and Gordie's is emotionally abusive, clearly favoring Gordie's older brother over him, despite the fact that said brother is dead. We don't really hear anything about Verne's parents, but considering the way his older brother acts, they are (at best) not paying too much attention to their kids.
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-->It was five hours later and almost dark before they took him down.
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* WardensAreEvil: Norton is borderline sadistic.
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* WardensAreEvil: Norton is borderline sadistic. An earlier one, Greg Stammas, is extremely brutal, allowing the guards to all but run wild on the inmates, to the point that Red suspects that quite a few cons died due to severe beatings and were secretly buried.
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* AssShove: Andy smuggles five hundred dollars into the prison by this method. Red at the end smuggles out the pages on which he is writing the manuscript with the same trick. The novella is nearly one hundred pages long.
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* AssShove: Andy smuggles five hundred dollars into the prison by this method. Red at the end smuggles out the pages on which he is writing the manuscript with the same trick. The novella is nearly one hundred pages long.long (and unless Red has ''really'' small handwriting, the same story in longhand would probably consist of even ''more'' pages).
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* ConvictionByCounterfactualClue: The police suspect Todd is guilty because when they ask him about the letter missing from Dussander's house, he jumps to the conclusion that only the letter was stolen but nothing else. However the police said nothing to indicate that anything else was stolen, so it was perfectly reasonable for Todd to come to that conclusion.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: A newspaper headline reads SPACE SHUTTLE WON'T FLY, EXPERT SAYS.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: A newspaper headline reads headline: SPACE SHUTTLE WON'T FLY, EXPERT SAYS.
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Todd is thirteen at the start of the story.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: A newspaper headline reads SPACE SHUTTLE WON'T FLY, EXPERT SAYS.
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''It is the tale, not he who tells it.''
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* BatroomControl: Prisoners have to ask permission to use the restroom. This carries over to their civilian lives after they've been institutionalized, often to the annoyance of their work-release employers.
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* BatroomControl: BathroomControl: Prisoners have to ask permission to use the restroom. This carries over to their civilian lives after they've been institutionalized, often to the annoyance of their work-release employers.
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* BatroomControl: Prisoners have to ask permission to use the restroom. This carries over to their civilian lives after they've been institutionalized, often to the annoyance of their work-release employers.
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* BrickJoke: "He doesn't look like Peter Wimsey at all."
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* BrickJoke: "He doesn't look like [[Literature/LordPeterWimsey Peter Wimsey Wimsey]] at all."
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* ''Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (or, Hope Springs Eternal)'' - Hope springs eternal, even in prison. Made into the [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption number one movie on IMDb's Top 250]].
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* ''Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (or, Hope Springs Eternal)'' - Hope springs eternal, even in prison. Made into the [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption number one movie on IMDb's Top 250]].1994 film]].
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* SlumberPartyPloy: The boys claim they're camping in the field behind Vern's house but they're actually going into the woods to look at the body of a missing kid.
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* TheStoryteller: Gordie, a young and imaginative writer.
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* TheStoryteller: Gordie, who is a young and imaginative writer.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot:
-->The door began to close. He might have dropped it right there, Todd thought much later on one of the nights when sleep was hard to find... It could have ended in that moment, the tiny, unimportant snicking sound of the latch cutting off everything that happened later as neatly as a pair of shears.
-->The door began to close. He might have dropped it right there, Todd thought much later on one of the nights when sleep was hard to find... It could have ended in that moment, the tiny, unimportant snicking sound of the latch cutting off everything that happened later as neatly as a pair of shears.
* SoapPunishment: When Todd says "suck my cock" to Dussander, he replies that if he said something like that as a boy, he would've had his mouth washed out with lye soap.
* TheSociopath: Todd in the book. Extremely AxCrazy, no empathy whatsoever, has a history of murdering animals for kicks, and is very manipulative, coaxing Kurt into telling him Holocaust stories for his own amusement.
* TheSociopath: Todd in the book. Extremely AxCrazy, no empathy whatsoever, has a history of murdering animals for kicks, and is very manipulative, coaxing Kurt into telling him Holocaust stories for his own amusement.
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* SoapPunishment: When Todd says "suck my cock" to Dussander, he replies that if he said something like that as a boy, he would've had his mouth washed out with lye soap.
* TheSociopath: Todd in the book. Extremely AxCrazy, no empathy whatsoever, has a history of murdering animals for kicks, and is very manipulative, coaxing Kurt into telling him Holocaust stories for his own amusement.
* TheSociopath: Todd in the book. Extremely AxCrazy, no empathy whatsoever, has a history of murdering animals for kicks, and is very manipulative, coaxing Kurt into telling him Holocaust stories for his own amusement.
* ChekhovsSkill: Sandra tells Dr. [=McCarron=] the story of how her boss fired her when her pregnancy began to show, in the process treating her very shabbily. It made Sandra so angry that to avoid blowing up and trashing the office, she controlled herself using the Breathing Method.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Sandra tells Dr. [=McCarron=] the story of how her boss fired her when her pregnancy began to show, in the process treating her very shabbily. It made Sandra so angry that to avoid blowing up and trashing the office, she controlled herself using the Breathing Method.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: InUniverse, Gordie mentions writing a series of stories as a boy involving Americans retaking a French town from the Nazis, and setting it in 1942, only finding out later that the U.S. Army didn't land in France until 1944.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse, Gordie mentions writing a series of stories as a boy involving Americans retaking a French town from the Nazis, and setting it in 1942, only finding out later that the U.S. Army didn't land in France until 1944.
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* BringMyBrownPants: "A thin stream of urine ran listlessly down the inside of one thigh" when Gordie reached down to the railroad track and felt it vibrating with the approach of a train.
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* BringMyBrownPants: "A thin stream of urine ran listlessly down the inside of one thigh" when Gordie reached down to the railroad track and felt it vibrating with the approach of a train. Also, Vern suddenly feels the need to relieve himself immediately after.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Two days over Labor Day weekend.
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* ParentalFavoritism: Gordie's parents visibly favored Denny over Gordie, to the point of barely acknowledging Gordie's existence at all.
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* WorldsSmallestViolin: Gordie uses this to poke fun at Chris
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* WorldsSmallestViolin: Gordie uses this to poke fun at ChrisChris.
* WritersCannotDoMath: How old was Ace in 1960? He was one of the "big kids", but was [[DistantEpilogue later]] described as a "thirty-two-year-old man" driving "a ’77 Ford station wagon" with a faded "Reagan/Bush 1980" bumper-sticker.
* WritersCannotDoMath: How old was Ace in 1960? He was one of the "big kids", but was [[DistantEpilogue later]] described as a "thirty-two-year-old man" driving "a ’77 Ford station wagon" with a faded "Reagan/Bush 1980" bumper-sticker.
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** Dussander roasts a live cat in his oven to stave off his nightmares. That act is described in detail. Later, he goes to an animal shelter and acquires a German Shepherd puppy. God knows what he did to it, because it never turns up again.
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* BigBad: Samuel Norton, the Warden of Shawshank Penitentiary who tries to cover up the fact that there is evidence of Andy Dufresne’s innocence and keep him locked up because he is aware of his money-laundering through his book-keeping job.
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* BigBad: John “Ace” Merrill, TheBully to Gordie and his friends who tries to stop them from reaching the body as he wants to find it himself and take all the credit for finding it.
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* NoAntagonist: There is no villain or physical threat in the frame tale or the main story as it is about the relationship between a doctor and a young pregnant woman.
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* AsYouKnow: For the reader's benefit, Rubber Ed gives a detailed explanation of IOP cards during his meeting with Dussander.
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* GenocideSurvivor: Morris Heisel survived the Holocaust, spending time in the concentration camp Dussander commanded.
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* TheTeetotaler: Chris refuses to drink, because he's afraid that he would become an alcoholic like his father and his older brothers.
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* AsYouKnow: For the reader's benefit, Rubber Ed gives a detailed explanation of what "flunk cards" are during his meeting with Dussander.
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* AxCrazy: In the book, Todd is ''seriously'' messed up and his fixation on the Holocaust doesn’t help matters much. [[spoiler: It gets to the point where he pretends to snipe at drivers from the top of a highway ForTheEvulz before losing it completely and going on a killing spree.]]
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* AnimalMotifs: Red compares the [[PrisonRape sisters]] to jackals in that they tease their prey and hunt the most vulnerable.
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* AnimalMotifs: Red compares the [[PrisonRape sisters]] to jackals in that they tease their prey and hunt the most vulnerable.'
* ApprovalOfGod: The scene in the film where Andy plays "Sull'aria" on the PA system is not in the short story. Stephen King is, however, on record saying he wishes it was.
* ApprovalOfGod: The scene in the film where Andy plays "Sull'aria" on the PA system is not in the short story. Stephen King is, however, on record saying he wishes it was.
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* ThirdPartyPeacekeeper: In "The Body," Chris Chambers leads the gang because he's the best at making peace when the others fight, and it shows when he calms down an altercation between Gordie and Teddy on the railroad tracks. It comes back to bite him as an adult, when he tries to stop two men fighting in a restaurant; one guy pulls a knife and stabs Chris in the throat, killing him almost instantly.
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* MatureWorkChildProtagonists: The title character is a teen boy who makes friends with his elderly neighbor. The man, a German national, turns out to have been a Nazi officer. They bond over torture methods.
