History Literature / ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree

* CoolOldLady: Mimi Corcoran.
** [[spoiler: Sadie by 2011/2016]].
* CuteClumsyGirl: Sadie.

*** King addressed this with "The problem is that every time you go back, you have to wait three years to get close to the assassination. (And in the book, it’s five years.) That’s a lot of time to spend! Also very risky, considering that the past pushes back, and you might wind up dead, in jail, or suffering from cancer, like Al. The best solution, even more simple and elegant, is to get it right the first time."

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding]]: [[spoiler: Jake finds out that not only did stopping the Kennedy assassination make a world '''far''' worse, it will eventually destroy the fabric of time. Jake is able to undo this easily, but sadly he can't ever meet Sadie again. Thankfully, she turns out to still be alive in modern days, albeit wounded by her crazy ex.]]

* IdiotBall: Two major ones, relating to the fact that every trip through the time portal is a ResetButton.

* TheAlcoholic: The mysterious Yellow-Card Man [[spoiler:pre-suicide]], as well as Jake's ex-wife.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Jake thinks he will make the world a better place by preventing the Kennedy assassination. [[spoiler: Instead, he causes serious damage to the fabric of time, and creates and even bleaker future.]]

* PhonyDegree: Jake has a genuine degree ... from 2011, and knows better than to produce it to get a job in the late 1950s/early 1960s. So he gets a second degree from a diploma mill. [[spoiler: It only works for so long, [[RealityEnsues as the school officials in Jodie take time to investigate his background]]. A state law requiring vaccination records for all schoolteachers ultimately undoes Jake's ruse, although he's garnered enough goodwill that he's allowed simply to leave once his contract expires rather than forfeit all pay and possibly go to jail.]]

* [[RussianGuySuffersMost Russian Girl Suffers Most]]: Lee's Russian wife Marina certainly has it worst.
* SeriesContinuityError: while in Derry in 1958, Jake is told the body of Patrick Hockstetter, one of the victims of Pennywise, has recently been found in The Barrens. However, in "{{Literature/IT}}" Patrick was dragged into the tunnels underneath Derry by Pennywise and remained there undiscovered for decades. The Losers encounter his (skeletal) remains down in the tunnels in both 1958 and again in 1985. Likewise, by this time Henry Bowers should have been apprehended by the Derry Police, and under intense pressure from both police questioning and severe psychological strain from what transpired in the sewers, falsely confessed to the murders and sent off to Juniper Hill. The townspeople of Derry don't seem to be aware of this, however, even suspecting that the killer may still be out there, or even unsure that the murders have stopped for good. [[spoiler: Justified in that Jake's changes to the timeline with each visit [[ButterflyEffect may have made subtle changes to events in Derry]] which altered the narrative for that timeline.]]

* WhoShotJFK: One of the reasons why Jake just doesn't kill Lee Harvey Oswald right off the bat is because of the conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy's assassination and the possibility that another person may have been involved. [[spoiler: In the end, it's just Oswald working alone.]] In the afterword, King notes that after reading all he could on the subject, this is the situation he considers by far the most likely.

A television series by Creator/JJAbrams and Stephen King starring Creator/JamesFranco is in the works and is to be on Creator/{{Hulu}}.

* UnusualEuphemism: "Poundcake".

* ShownTheirWork: King did extensive research on what life in the 1950s was like (helped by the fact that he grew up in the fifties; he would have been eleven in the year the story is set) and even interviewed historians about what life may have been like had Kennedy not been shot.

A television series starring Creator/JamesFranco is in the works.

** Al wants to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but he only feels 95% sure that Lee Harvey Oswald is the real killer and acted alone, so he (and later, Jake) spends five years in the past attempting to make sure. Why not just track down and kill Oswald right away, head back through the portal, and spend five minutes on the Internet checking to see if Kennedy was still killed? You can always just hit the ResetButton and try again if you got it wrong. [[note]]It's worth noting that even doing this Al or Jake would still have to wait around a while, as Oswald was on a military base in Japan at in 1958 where the time portal came out.[[/note]]

* {{Mondegreen}}: one of the characters Jake meets is called "Silent Mike", because when little he misheard the songs of "Silent Night", thinking the song was all about him.

* PinballProtagonist: Jake has to observe Frank Dunning and Lee Harvey Oswald but avoid actually interacting with them at all costs due to the very real danger of altering their behavior in a way he won't be able to predict. Because of this, for the overwhelming majority of the book Jake just follows his targets around and does almost nothing to progress the plot himself.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: One of Jake's friends tells him to stop wasting his time and bet the Bears to win the NFC in 1963. The Bears ''did'' win the title that year, but it was still the NF'''L'''. The NFL/AFL merger (which led to the creation of the NFC and AFC) would not happen for another seven years.

* ShownTheirWork: King did extensive research on what life in the 1950s was like and even interviewed historians about what life may have been like had Kennedy not been shot.

* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Extends it to every major event in history. [[spoiler:It turns out that changing such events can and often ''will'' lead to a slow-but-certain TimeCrash, other nasty side effects notwithstanding. Jake finds this out the [[BadFuture hard]] [[CrapsackWorld way]].]]

* BystanderSyndrome: Jake notes humorously that the broken sewer pipe never gets fixed in any of the alternate realities.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: After Jack comes back after having saved Kennedy, when talking to Harry.]]

* RevolversAreJustBetter: Jake's choice of .38 revolver hints at his inexperience with firearms. Since he's learning as he goes, he chooses it due to its compactness and simplicity.

* DomesticAbuser: Oswald is one. Frank Dunning is worse.

* {{Mondegreen}: one of the characters Jake meets is called "Silent Mike", because when little he misheard the songs of "Silent Night", thinking the song was all about him.

A movie version of the book is, of course, in the works.