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* AssholeVictim: After sexually abusing his own daughter and getting her pregnant, Arthur is stabbed by Rose and left to bleed out.



* KickTheSonOfABitch: After sexually abusing his own daughter and getting her pregnant, Arthur is stabbed by Rose and left to bleed out.
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* BadassCrew[=/=]RagtagBunchOfMisfits[=/=]FiveManBand: The apple pickers.
** TheLeader: Mr. Rose
** TheChick: Rose Rose
** TheLancer: Muddy
** TheSmartGuy: Hero ("He was a hero of some kind or other once.")
** TheBigGuy: Peaches (particularly in TheFilmOfTheBook, where he is played by an almost-silent Music/HeavyD)

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* EverybodyKnewAlready: The orchard pickers knew about Arthur Rose's incest with his daughter Rose. Homer confronts him about this.


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* OpenSecret: The orchard pickers knew about Arthur Rose's incest with his daughter Rose. Homer confronts him about this.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Wally (the Betty) and Homer (the Veronica) over Wally's wife Candy (the Archie).


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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Homer decides to walk away after Candy's husband Wally returns from the war so that they could be happy together.


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* LoveTriangle: Wally/Candy/Homer.

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Arthur Rose is a kind hardworking apple picker who sexually abuses his own daughter.

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Arthur Rose is a kind charming hardworking apple picker who sexually abuses his own daughter.


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* FaceDeathWithDignity: After being stabbed by Rose, Arthur accepts his fate and goes out quietly while telling Homer not to alert the police about Rose.
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** The second couple to adopt Homer as a toddler got him to make noise by beating him. Once they beaten him, he couldn't stop crying so they returned him to st. Clouds orphanage.

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** The second couple to adopt Homer as a toddler got him to make noise by beating him. Once they had beaten him, he couldn't stop crying so they returned him to st.St. Clouds orphanage.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted with [[spoiler: Candy and Wally]], but later played straight with [[spoiler: Candy and Homer]].

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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted with [[spoiler: Candy and Wally]], but later played straight with [[spoiler: Candy and Homer]]. Played straight with Rose who didn't want to become pregnant. Justified due to incest and rape.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Arthur Rose is a kind hardworking apple picker who sexually abuses his own daughter.
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* BittersweetEnding: Dr. Larch is dead and Homer and Candy part ways due to her marriage to Wally. But Homer returns to the orphanage as the new doctor and caretaker of the orphans like Dr. Larch before him. And Rose got to escape her abuser.


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* TheDogBitesBack: Rose stabs her abusive father before running away to freedom.


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* KickTheSonOfABitch: After sexually abusing his own daughter and getting her pregnant, Arthur is stabbed by Rose and left to bleed out.


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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Rose escapes the first chance she gets after stabbing her father Arthur.
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* BlatantLies: Arthur denies it when Homer asks him questions, knowing about the sexual abuse Arthur inflicted on Rose. Then he snaps and makes a bunch of excuses.


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* EverybodyKnewAlready: The orchard pickers knew about Arthur Rose's incest with his daughter Rose. Homer confronts him about this.


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* OhCrap:
** Candy when she finds out who the father of Rose's baby is.
** Arthur Rose, when he is confronted by Homer with knowledge about the situation and when he is told Rose is pregnant with his baby.


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* PapaWolf: As Arthur tells Homer, he loves his daughter Rose. Maybe too much.
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* IncestantAdmirer: Arthur Rose towards his daughter Rose. She is repulsed by him.


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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Rose changing from a happy attentive social girl to a self-isolating quiet person when she returns.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Arthur Rose hovering over his daughter, fixing her hair and insisting that she doesn't need new clothes.
** Rose's attitude changing after she and the rest orchard pickers return. Rose always isolating herself from the group. Rose always quiet and not as talkative. As Peaches notes, "She ain't hungry every morning, cause she's sick every morning.".


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* HeKnowsTooMuch: Why Arthur Rose fired Jimmy and he didn't return with the rest of the orchard pickers. Might have something to do with the situation between him and his daughter Rose.


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* MorningSickness: What Rose suffers due to an unplanned pregnancy, as one of the orchard pickers notices.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: When Rose stabs her father Arthur and runs away, Arthur begs Homer and Dr. Larch not to go to the police and to instead tell the police that his impending death from the stab was a suicide. Sparing Rose of the crime.
* {{Fanservice}}: In the movie, Creator/CharlizeTheron has a nude scene.

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: When Rose stabs her father Arthur and runs away, Arthur begs Homer and Dr. Larch not to go to the police and to instead tell the police that his impending death from the stab was a suicide. Sparing Ultimately sparing Rose of the crime.
* {{Fanservice}}: In the movie, Creator/CharlizeTheron has a nude scene. Also, Homer and Candy's first time together having sex in the woods.
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* TitleDrop: Homer reads them the posted rules of the Cider House, the workers observe the rules have been made without the occupants' consent by people who do not live there and so do not face their problems. Consequently, they feel that they can ignore them.
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* AbusiveParents:
** The first couple that adopted Homer as an infant returned him because he didn't make any noise or cry. After returning him, they ask Dr. Larch if they could see someone else to adopt.
** The second couple to adopt Homer as a toddler got him to make noise by beating him. Once they beaten him, he couldn't stop crying so they returned him to st. Clouds orphanage.
** Arthur Rose sexually abuses his own daughter Rose, leading to her becoming pregnant.


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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: When Rose stabs her father Arthur and runs away, Arthur begs Homer and Dr. Larch not to go to the police and to instead tell the police that his impending death from the stab was a suicide. Sparing Rose of the crime.
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* WhamLine: Homer and Candy discover that Rose Rose the apple-picker is pregnant and is considering an abortion. Candy tries to talk to Rose about it but she refuses to name the father. Her father, Arthur, comes in and Rose's submissive attitude around him lets Candy put two and two together by the next scene:
-->'''Candy:''' "[[ParentalIncest He is the father! He's her baby's father!]]"
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* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: It's like life ''wants'' Homer to be an orphan.

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* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: None of Homer's several attempted adoptions work out. It's like life fate ''wants'' Homer him to be an orphan.orphan. [[spoiler: In the most extreme example, his final adoption, which actually seems to be going okay, ends when his adoptive parents are swept away in a freak flood right in front of him. Young Homer shrugs and walks back to orphanage, where Larch finally seems to accept that Homer was meant to stay there.]]

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* CatchPhrase /ArcWords : "Goodnight, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England." "Let us be happy for (name). (Name) has found a family. Good night, (name)." The latter become a MeaningfulEcho when [[spoiler:Fuzzy dies, as the otherwise sternly pragmatic Larch chooses to allow the other children to believe that Fuzzy has been adopted rather than break the news that he is dead]], while the former becomes so when Homer begins to use it [[spoiler: after Larch's death]].

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* CatchPhrase /ArcWords : /ArcWords:
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"Goodnight, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England." "
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"Let us be happy for (name). (Name) has found a family. Good night, (name)." "
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The latter become a MeaningfulEcho when [[spoiler:Fuzzy dies, as the otherwise sternly pragmatic Larch chooses to allow the other children to believe that Fuzzy has been adopted rather than break the news that he is dead]], while the former becomes so when Homer begins to use it [[spoiler: after Larch's death]].



* RightThroughHisPants : Candy and Homer's first sex scene, in the woods. Including wearing their winter coats.

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* RightThroughHisPants : RightThroughHisPants: Candy and Homer's first sex scene, in the woods. Including wearing their winter coats.



* ShoutOut : Lots, to Literature/JaneEyre and Dickens.

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* ShoutOut : ShoutOut: Lots, to Literature/JaneEyre ''Literature/JaneEyre'' and Dickens.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Melony gives Homer a ''scathing'' one after she sees what Homer did during the years the two were separated, calling him out for [[spoiler: continuing to have sex with Candy despite Wally being back home, talking Candice into doing it in the first place, and raising the product of their adultery right under Wally's nose, all while acting like the moral superiority in the family.]] This utterly ''breaks'' the SmugSnake mentality Homer had going for over fifteen years and forces him to realize he [[JerkAss emotionally manipulated a grieving woman to cheat on her boyfriend who she thought had died not a few months prior to act.]]
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%%* CelibateHero : Dr. Larch.

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%%* CelibateHero : * CelibateHero: After a youthful sexual encounter leaves him with incurable and painful STD, Dr. Larch.Larch chooses celibacy to prevent spreading the disease. Later on, once he witnesses the potentially tragic consequences of sex (incest, orphans, abortions, and the desperate conditions of sex workers, among other things), it becomes more of a deliberate ethical decision.



%%* PinballProtagonist: Homer, throughout parts of the novel.

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%%* * PinballProtagonist: Homer, throughout parts of As an orphan, Homer repeatedly goes into the novel.world to find a place where he's needed, but circumstances always seems return him to St. Cloud's. It's only when he realizes St. Cloud's needs ''him'' that he finally stops being Fate's pinball.

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* AdaptationDistillation - The film leaves out quite a bit of the story, and takes place over a much shorter time period.
* AdaptedOut : Many characters due to the AdaptationDistillation, but primarily Melony, Angel, and Nurse Caroline.

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\n* AdaptationDistillation - AdaptationDistillation: The film leaves out quite a bit of the story, and takes place over a much shorter time period.
* AdaptedOut : AdaptedOut: Many characters due to the AdaptationDistillation, but primarily Melony, Angel, and Nurse Caroline.



* BadassCrew / RagtagBunchOfMisfits / FiveManBand: The apple pickers.

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* BadassCrew / RagtagBunchOfMisfits / FiveManBand: BadassCrew[=/=]RagtagBunchOfMisfits[=/=]FiveManBand: The apple pickers.



* CelibateHero : Dr. Larch.

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* %%* CelibateHero : Dr. Larch.



* PinballProtagonist: Homer, throughout parts of the novel.

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* %%* PinballProtagonist: Homer, throughout parts of the novel.



* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: The orphanage nurses assign their infant charges temporary names, many of which end up being permanent. This gets awkward when one of the nurses tends to name the boys after her many cats, resulting in children named Fuzzy, Snowy, and Smoky.

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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: The orphanage nurses assign their infant charges temporary names, many of which end up being permanent. This gets awkward when one of the nurses tends to name the boys after her many cats, resulting in children named Fuzzy, Snowy, and Smoky.Smoky.
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The book was made into a 1999 film starring Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/TobeyMaguire and Creator/CharlizeTheron.

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The book was made into a 1999 film directed by Creator/LasseHallstrom and starring Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/TobeyMaguire and Creator/CharlizeTheron.
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Deleted a trope- it's not Totally Radical if you're only using an alternite reading of something that pretty clearly wasn't the author's intent


* TotallyRadical: Unintentional, but occurs if one interprets the last word of the title as a verb instead of a noun.

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