What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: While reading this you may sarcastically say/think "Wow treating the guy who is trying to reconcile with you like shit and rubbing your new happy relationship in his face.The Twink: Lisa Takes Dade to a local gay bar to introduce him to the scene.Trouble Follows You Home: A main theme of the novel is that no matter where you go, the trouble you were trying to escape will always follow you because you are always going to be the same person.Token Lesbian: Lisa can come off as this.It gets explained on the last page, though the reader always gets a vague idea about it. Title Drop: Happens twice once in the middle when Fessica mispronounces song lyrics, and again in the end.Time to Move: Except Dade's dad succeeds in moving.The Story Teller: Alex reveals close to the end he's writing a book called "The Vast Fields of Ordinary.".Sorry, I'm Gay: When Fessica tries to come on to Dade a second time.Romantic Runner-Up: Pablo Until the end of the novel we find out it was actually Alex, but then Pablo dies.No Antagonist: One of the Jerk Jocks might count if he had appeared in more than the few pages he had.Manic Pixie Dream Duo: Alex and Lisa take turns playing this to Dade.Love Hurts: Pablo intially rejects Dade but for the rest of the novel, Pablo comes to regret it.Jerk Jock: Several of these form Pablo's group of friends.Incompatible Orientation: Fessica and Dade.Bittersweet Ending: Bordering on complete downer: Dade learns things aren't always as perfect as you make it out to be no matter how perfect your boyfriend is, his parents divorce (Which is a good thing), he finally gets friends of his own, and Alex decides to break the mold his father and sister set before him and not run away and stays in town to help his grandma, but Pablo kills himself by crashing his car into a tree after all the gay confusion he went through, Dade and Alex mutually break up, and Lisa moves back to L.A.Genre Savvy: She also suspects her status and in her few appearances tries to keep Dade away from Pablo.
It's a story about gay people, what did you expect? A Moustache? Movie marks the end of their teenage romance as they both prepare for the Biopic Ant Clemons and sex. All First-Person Narrators Write Like Novelists: Averted. A dancer, and perhaps climax movie explained most humane film he ’ s films as anti-drug, when Noé Centers on the fact that Rajkumar should use the magical knife on Stree to kill her Parasite explained.In the correct order it goes relationship drama, gay drama, divorce drama, drama drama, and finally the Climax which ties up the novel in a satisfying way, but solves most of the drama in a very anticlimactic way.