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* LukeNounverber: ''Many'' of the Shoshone have names like this. Rafael Gives Light, Annie Little Hawk, Paul Looks Over, etc. Historically, this has something to do with Indian ancestors passing on their given names (and they were all [[ThemeNaming theme named]]) as surnames to their later generations. Meredith Siomme is a notable exclusion.
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* TroubledButCute: Rafael gets into fistfights constantly. Usually because his peers only remember him for his father's crimes.
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* TroubledButCute: Rafael gets into fistfights constantly. Usually because his peers only remember him for his father's crimes.
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* SecondaryCharacterTitle: "Gives Light" is Rafael's last name.
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* SiblingYinYang: Annie and Lila Little Hawk.
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* HiddenDepths: Everyone thinks Rafael is a jerk like his dad, but he leaves memorial drawings at the graves of his dad's victims.
** Skylar is mellow and friendly with a good sense of humor. He's polite and respectful of elders. And he tried to blow up a school drinking fountain when he was ten.
** Skylar is mellow and friendly with a good sense of humor. He's polite and respectful of elders. And he tried to blow up a school drinking fountain when he was ten.
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* RomanticFalseLead: The unnamed Navajo girl, for both boys. Skylar dances with her at the summer pauwau and Rafael gets jealous. Skylar mistakenly believes that Rafael [[ObliviousToLove is interested in her]].
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* RomanticFalseLead: The unnamed Navajo girl, for both boys. Skylar dances with her at the summer pauwau and Rafael gets jealous. Skylar mistakenly believes that Rafael [[ObliviousToLove is interested in her]].
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* RomanticFalseLead: The unnamed Navajo girl, for both boys. Skylar dances with her at the summer pauwau and Rafael gets jealous; Skylar mistakenly believes that Rafael [[ObliviousToLove is interested in her]].
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* RomanticFalseLead: The unnamed Navajo girl, for both boys. Skylar dances with her at the summer pauwau and Rafael gets jealous; jealous. Skylar mistakenly believes that Rafael [[ObliviousToLove is interested in her]].
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* RomanticFalseLead: The unnamed Navajo girl, for both boys. Skylar dances with her at the summer pauwau and Rafael gets jealous; Skylar mistakenly believes that Rafael [[ObliviousToLove is interested in her]].
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* RomanticFalseLead: The unnamed Navajo girl, for both boys. Skylar dances with her at the summer pauwau and Rafael gets jealous; Skylar mistakenly believes that Rafael [[ObliviousToLove is interested in her]].
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* RomanticFalseLead: The unnamed Navajo girl, for both boys. Skylar dances with her at the summer pauwau and Rafael gets jealous; Skylar mistakenly believes that Rafael [[ObliviousToLove is interested in her]].
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* MysteryFiction
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* ThePerfectCrime: [[spoiler: There is a legal loophole that allows Skylar's father to avenge the death of his wife, essentially getting away with murder.]] Specifically, [[spoiler: the FBI can go to an Indian reservation and investigate a murder, but only if said murder happened ''on'' the reservation. It takes him eleven years to track him down, but Skylar's father kills Rafael's father in Newcastle, Wyoming before running back to Nettlebush to hide. And it looks like all the tribal elders were in on this from the start, but Skylar had no idea. Rafael suspected it all along, but mistakenly thought it happened a decade ago.]]
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* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler: The legal loophole that allows Skylar's father to avenge the death of his wife, essentially [[ThePerfectCrime getting away with murder]].]] Specifically, [[spoiler: the FBI can go to an Indian reservation and investigate a murder, but only if said murder happened ''on'' the reservation. Skylar's father kills Rafael's father in Newcastle, Wyoming before running back to Nettlebush to hide. It looks like all the tribal elders were in on it from the start, but Skylar had no idea.]]
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* TheVoiceless: Played with, as the Plains Shoshone are culturally private people, which often leaves poor Skylar in the dark about important plot happenings.
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* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler: The legal loophole that allows Skylar's father to avenge the death of his wife, essentially [[ThePerfectCrime getting away with murder]].]] Specifically, [[the FBI can go to an Indian reservation and investigate a murder, but only if said murder happened ''on'' the reservation. Skylar's father kills Rafael's father in Newcastle, Wyoming before running back to Nettlebush to hide. It looks like all the tribal elders were in on it from the start, but Skylar had no idea.]]
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* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler: The legal loophole that allows Skylar's father to avenge the death of his wife, essentially [[ThePerfectCrime getting away with murder]].]] Specifically, [[the [[spoiler: the FBI can go to an Indian reservation and investigate a murder, but only if said murder happened ''on'' the reservation. Skylar's father kills Rafael's father in Newcastle, Wyoming before running back to Nettlebush to hide. It looks like all the tribal elders were in on it from the start, but Skylar had no idea.]]
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* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler: The legal loophole that allows Skylar's father to avenge the death of his wife, essentially [[ThePerfectCrime getting away with murder]].]] Specifically, [[the FBI can go to an Indian reservation and investigate a murder, but only if said murder happened ''on'' the reservation. Skylar's father kills Rafael's father in Newcastle, Wyoming before running back to Nettlebush to hide. It looks like all the tribal elders were in on it from the start, but Skylar had no idea.]]
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* TroubledButCute: Rafael gets into fistfights constantly. Usually because his peers only remember him for his father's crimes.
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Skylar and Rafael overcome their initial misgivings towards each other, to everyone's surprise, and over the course of the summer, they become best friends. And then, to their own surprise, they fall in love.
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Skylar and Rafael overcome their initial misgivings towards each other, to everyone's surprise, and over the course of the summer, they become best friends. And then, to their own surprise, then they fall in love.
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It turns out that Skylar was born on this reservation, and he's not very keen on going back. His mother was killed on the reservation when he was a small child, and as he quickly finds out, her killer left behind a teenage son named Rafael. Skylar and Rafael overcome their initial misgivings towards each other, however, and quickly become best friends. And then, against their better judgment (and everyone else's warnings), they fall in love.
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It turns out that Skylar was born on this reservation, and he's not very keen on going back. His mother was killed on the reservation when he was a small child, and as he quickly finds out, her killer left behind a teenage son named Rafael. Rafael.
Skylar and Rafael overcome their initial misgivings towards each other,however, to everyone's surprise, and quickly over the course of the summer, they become best friends. And then, against to their better judgment (and everyone else's warnings), own surprise, they fall in love.
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* {{Gayngst}}: Very notably averted. Skylar worries about what his father will think, but neither boy tries to deny the growing attraction, [[spoiler: and their friends and family are all approving or indifferent]]
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* BadassNative: Many of them, but Nola especially.
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* BadassNative: Many of them, but Nola especially.
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* CoolOldLady: Catherine and Nola
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** Lampshaded by Rafael himself.
--> ''"I don't mope. I brood."''
--> ''"I don't mope. I brood."''
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* [[BroodingBoyGentleGirl Brooding Boy, Gentle Boy]]: Rafael is brooding and reclusive. Skylar is gentle and outgoing.
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Blends [[ComingOfAgeStory coming of age]] with [[MysteryFiction mystery]], as Skylar comes to grips not only with his new feelings, but with his mixed heritage cultural identity and the truth about where his father went and why his mother was killed all those years ago. Appears to be part of a planned trilogy.
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Skylar St. Clair is [[TheVoiceless mute]] as the result of an attack eleven years ago that claimed his mother's life. One day his father [[DisappearedDad skips town without warning]], and Skylar is forced to go live with the only relative he's got left, a grandma who lives on a Shoshone Indian Reservation.
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Skylar St. Clair is [[TheVoiceless [[TheSpeechless mute]] as the result of an attack eleven years ago that claimed his mother's life. One day his father [[DisappearedDad skips town without warning]], and Skylar is forced to go live with the only relative he's got left, a grandma who lives on a Shoshone Indian Reservation.
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!! Gives Light ''Gives Light'' contains examples of:of:
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* TheSpeechless: Skylar is mute. It's not psychological, however, it seems that his vocal folds never healed when they were cut by his mom's attacker.
* StraightGay: Both boys.
* ComingOfAgeStory
* MysteryFiction
* ShinyMidnightBlack: Rafael, though his hair is lank as opposed to well kept.
* TheSpeechless: Skylar is mute. It's not psychological, however, it seems that his vocal folds never healed when they were cut by his mom's attacker.
* StraightGay: Both boys.
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A YoungAdult RomanceNovel by Rose Christo.
Skylar St. Clair is [[TheVoiceless mute]] as the result of an attack eleven years ago that claimed his mother's life. One day his father [[DisappearedDad skips town without warning]], and Skylar is forced to go live with the only relative he's got left, a grandma who lives on a Shoshone Indian Reservation.
It turns out that Skylar was born on this reservation, and he's not very keen on going back. His mother was killed on the reservation when he was a small child, and as he quickly finds out, her killer left behind a teenage son named Rafael. Skylar and Rafael overcome their initial misgivings towards each other, however, and quickly become best friends. And then, against their better judgment (and everyone else's warnings), they fall in love.
Blends [[ComingOfAgeStory coming of age]] with [[MysteryFiction mystery]], as Skylar comes to grips not only with his new feelings, but with his mixed heritage and the truth about where his father went and why his mother was killed all those years ago.
Skylar St. Clair is [[TheVoiceless mute]] as the result of an attack eleven years ago that claimed his mother's life. One day his father [[DisappearedDad skips town without warning]], and Skylar is forced to go live with the only relative he's got left, a grandma who lives on a Shoshone Indian Reservation.
It turns out that Skylar was born on this reservation, and he's not very keen on going back. His mother was killed on the reservation when he was a small child, and as he quickly finds out, her killer left behind a teenage son named Rafael. Skylar and Rafael overcome their initial misgivings towards each other, however, and quickly become best friends. And then, against their better judgment (and everyone else's warnings), they fall in love.
Blends [[ComingOfAgeStory coming of age]] with [[MysteryFiction mystery]], as Skylar comes to grips not only with his new feelings, but with his mixed heritage and the truth about where his father went and why his mother was killed all those years ago.
