Follow TV Tropes

Following

History Literature / TheNowhereGirls

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* LysistrataGambit: The Nowhere Girls organize a strike on all sexual activity, from intercourse to kissing, until the boys at Prescott High start behaving better. The strike is meant to get the attention not of the rapists, but of the boys who allow the rapes to continue through their silence. Enough of the girls go along with it to make the popular boys unhappy.

to:

* LysistrataGambit: The Nowhere Girls organize a strike on all sexual activity, from intercourse to kissing, until the boys at Prescott High start behaving better. The strike is meant to get the attention not of the rapists, but of [[BystanderSyndrome the boys who allow the rapes to continue through their silence.silence]]. Enough of the girls go along with it to make the popular boys unhappy.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:


* YouGotSpunk: Eric sexually harasses Rosina in the cafeteria, and she tells him to go away. Eric says, "You've got spunk, I'll give you that. And I like a challenge."

Changed: 147

Removed: 146

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* {{Blackmail}}: Slatterly threatens to report Rosina's abuelita as TheIllegal, and send [[TheInspectorIsComing health inspectors to her uncle's restaurant]]
if she doesn't tell her everything she knows about the Nowhere Girls. Rosina holds firm, but afterwards tries a lot harder to stay out of trouble.

to:

* {{Blackmail}}: Slatterly threatens to report Rosina's abuelita as TheIllegal, and send [[TheInspectorIsComing health inspectors to her uncle's restaurant]]
restaurant]] if she doesn't tell her everything she knows about the Nowhere Girls. Rosina holds firm, but afterwards tries a lot harder to stay out of trouble.

Added: 146

Changed: 180

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* {{Blackmail}}: Slatterly threatens to report Rosina's abuelita as TheIllegal if she doesn't tell her everything she knows about the Nowhere Girls. Rosina holds firm, but afterwards tries a lot harder to stay out of trouble.

to:

* {{Blackmail}}: Slatterly threatens to report Rosina's abuelita as TheIllegal TheIllegal, and send [[TheInspectorIsComing health inspectors to her uncle's restaurant]]
if she doesn't tell her everything she knows about the Nowhere Girls. Rosina holds firm, but afterwards tries a lot harder to stay out of trouble.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* DrugsAreBad: Principal Slattery (further) alienates Rosina from her mother by telling the latter that Rosina is "on drugs".
-> '''Rosina:''' I haven't done a drug in my life!
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* IHaveNoSon: Rosina's abusive mother threatens that if she gets one more phone call from the principal (who is trying to intimidate Rosina into betraying the nowhere girls) she will disown her.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* RapeAsBackstory: Erin had to not only change schools but move across the country after Casper Pennington raped her when she was 13 (he was 16). After some effort she convinced her parents and the prosecutors to drop the charges against him because she froze in terror rather than saying "no" while he raped her, and the statutory rape charges that were filed are insulting to her because they imply that, due to her age and Asperger's, she lacks the agency to consent - they define her as a passive victim.

Added: 155

Changed: 58

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* DumbStruck: Erin goes nonverbal for two days after her attempted rape.

to:

* DumbStruck: DumbStruck:
**
Erin goes nonverbal for two days after Eric sexually assaults her.
** In
her attempted rape.backstory she went nonverbal for two weeks when Casper Pennington raped her.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* SelfHarm: After Erin is almost raped, she runs home, bangs her head against the wall, and hits herself. Her golen retriever Spot puts himself between her head and the wall, gently tugs her hand away from her head, and sits on her.

to:

* SelfHarm: After Erin is almost raped, she runs home, bangs her head against the wall, and hits herself. Her golen golden retriever Spot puts himself between her head and the wall, gently tugs her hand away from her head, and sits on her.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* SelfHarm: After Erin is almost raped, she runs home, bangs her head against the wall, and hits herself. Spot puts himself between her head and the wall, gently tugs her hand away from her head, and sits on her.

to:

* SelfHarm: After Erin is almost raped, she runs home, bangs her head against the wall, and hits herself. Her golen retriever Spot puts himself between her head and the wall, gently tugs her hand away from her head, and sits on her.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* {{Blackmail}}: Slatterly threatens to report Rosina's abuelita as TheIllegal if she doesn't tell her everything she knows about the Nowhere Girls.

to:

* {{Blackmail}}: Slatterly threatens to report Rosina's abuelita as TheIllegal if she doesn't tell her everything she knows about the Nowhere Girls. Rosina holds firm, but afterwards tries a lot harder to stay out of trouble.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* PoliceAreUseless: All the powerful adults in Prescott know each other, including the rapists' parents. As a result, Chief Delaney refuses to take the accusations seriously and does everything he can to shut the Nowhere Girls down. [[spoiler:Luckily the sheriff of Fir County, where Cheyenne lives, takes the accusations seriously and is able to pressure Prescott law enforcement into bringing the rapists to justice.]]

Top