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* AbusiveParents: Ma and the auld man fling insults and attacks at each other and their kids, so often that the word "dysfunctional" is a massive understatement. Despite their behavior, they're curiously endearing.
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* AbusiveParents: Ma and the auld man fling insults and attacks at each other and their kids, so often that the word "dysfunctional" is a massive understatement. Despite their behavior, they're curiously endearing.
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* ArcWords: "Z." [[spoiler: It symbolizes Roy's depression and self-hatred at his gang-rape.]]
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* ProudToBeAGeek: Roy, who is a huge fan of the ComicBook/SilverSurfer and the Franchise/FantasticFour.
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* TheAtoner: Roy, who is tormented by guilt after [[spoiler:he took part in [[MoralEventHorizon a gang-rape]]. Later in his life, he falls into drug addiction and depression, and finally attempts suicide. This leaves him in the comatose dream-world he began the novel in.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Roy seems to be prone to explosive bouts of rage.
* AmoralAttorney: Conrad Donaldson, the lawyer that defends Roy, Lexo, Ozzy and Demps.
* AnimalMotifs: the Marabou symbolizes all that went wrong in Roy's life.
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* AmoralAttorney: Conrad Donaldson, the lawyer that defends Roy, Lexo, Ozzy and Demps.
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* KarmaHoudini: Lexo, Ozzy, Demps and Roy get away scots-free after brutally raping Kristy.
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** [[spoiler:Lexo is not the Marabou as we are led to believe, Roy is.]]
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** [[spoiler:Despite claiming otherwise, Roy took part in the gang rape.]]
** [[spoiler:Lexo is not the Marabou as we are led to believe, Roy is.]]
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Roy ''is'' the Marabou.]]
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** A minor example, but Roy remarks several times throughout the book that he has large ears and was even bullied as a kid because of them. Towards the end he remembers that his ears are rather normal and the physical feature he felt insecure about was his large and beak-like nose.
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** In the end, it is revealed that Roy was [[spoiler:the ringleader of the gang-rape and the most violent rapist.]]
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--> No I don't want to wake up yet. DEEPER
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* HopeSpot: When Roy reconnects with his brother and moves to Manchester. Unfortunately, it doesn't last.
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* AffectionateParody: The parts set in South Africa are written as a parody of EnidBlyton adventure books. "Oh! Those insects, Sandy! How positively yucky!"
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* TheApartheidEra: Roy's family live there when he's a child, and he later revisits Africa in his fantasies.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Roy himself is sexually assaulted by both his uncle as a child and by one of the nurses while he's in a coma. The one by his uncle scars him for life, while the incident with the nurse is never mentioned again.
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* KickTheDog: Roy literally does this at every available opportunity to Winston Two, the family German Shepard. [[spoiler: In the end, Roy puts some nails into a bone, which maims Winston and later kills him by strapping fireworks to his face and setting them off.]]
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