Basic Trope: A child or teen runs away from their parent or guardian.
- Straight: Alice runs away from her parents' home.
- Exaggerated: Alice runs away from not only her parents, but also society.
- Downplayed: Alice walks out from her house planning to leave until she contemplates upon being few miles from her house and decides to return back.
- Justified:
- Alice feels ignored and underappreciated by her parents and wants to join a circus.
- Alice's parents cruelly mistreat her and she doesn't want to stay with them anymore.
- Alice feels her she isn't given enough attention from her parents or isn't getting her way.
- Alice is rebellious and doesn't like her parents enforcing their strict rules and punishments.
- Alice had made a mistake that angered her family and friends. She determines that it would be better if she had ran away now everyone now hates her (at least in her mind).
- Alice is an orphan who lost her parents. She's seeking to find someone to take care of her.
- Alice wanted to do some soul-searching and wants to see if the world is a harsh place outside of her home in hopes of gaining a better perspective.
- Alice is in love with Bob, but her parents disapprove of her relationship, so she runs away to live with him.
- Inverted: Alice runs away from her husband and children.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice doesn't run away from her parents.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Alice's parents, who are abusive and neglectful, cruelly tell her to leave home as they don't want to take care of her.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice decides that it wouldn't be the best idea to run away from home regardless of what the situation is.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed:
- Alice realizes that she can't come home after her parents died in a house fire.
- Alice learns that being a runaway means she has no access to food, water and clothes. Worse, she could get kidnapped (or killed) by criminals.
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