- Catharsis Factor: The final fight between Bobby Marks and Willie Rumson can come off as this, particularly given all the crap Rumson has put Bobby through.
- Fair for Its Day: Some of the language used in the book is fairly derogatory and would not fly for a young adult book today.
- Iron Woobie: Bobby proves himself one of these about three-fourths of the way in the book.
- Moment of Awesome: Two notable ones occur. The first is when Bobby manages to fight his way back from his Heroic BSoD to try to find a way off Make-Out Island after Rumson humiliates him. The second is using his swimming ability to thoroughly trounce the much bigger Willy Rumson after the latter was planning to shoot him.
- Moral Event Horizon: If he didn't earlier, Willie Rumson definitely tried to in the climax when he showed up vocally planning to cripple Bobby with a gun, or kill him if he didn't cooperate.
- So Okay, It's Average: The general review of the movie amongst critics. While the acting, particularly of the lead Blake Cooper, is seen as very good, the story itself is referred to as by-the-numbers and uninspired within the genre.
- Squick: The old Modesty Towel Bobby finds can be this when you question why it would be in the shack on Make-Out Island. Along with a pair of discarded pantyhose.
- What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?: The super power the normally body-shy Bobby imagines having? Invisibility.
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