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11/22/63

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11/22/63	comment	11/22/63 is a Historical Fiction novel written by Stephen King and published in 2011.Jake Epping, a divorced high school teacher, discovers from his dying friend a time portal to a date in 1958 at the back of his friend's diner. His friend proposes that he go back in time to stop John F. Kennedy's assassination. There, Jake lives a different life and falls in love all while preparing for the eventual date that will change history.A television series by J. J. Abrams and Stephen King starring James Franco as Jake aired on Hulu in 2016.
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11/22/63 / int_115d318	type	And Then John Was a Zombie
11/22/63 / int_115d318	comment	And Then John Was a Zombie: Jake Epping is Jimla.
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11/22/63 / int_119e320e	type	Red Herring Twist
11/22/63 / int_119e320e	comment	Red Herring Twist: A lot is made of never taking technology from the present into the past, and when Jake realizes he accidentally brought his cell phone he throws it in a pond. You'd think this would turn out to have some sort of effect on the future, but it's never mentioned again, not even as a possible contributor to the Bad Future Jake eventually finds himself in.
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11/22/63 / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
11/22/63 / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: Bill Turcotte is noticeably younger in the series than he is in the book, most likely to go with his larger role (see below).
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11/22/63 / int_13a6b7ef	type	Gaia's Lament
11/22/63 / int_13a6b7ef	comment	Gaia's Lament: A few examples in the Bad Future according to Harry, where the world has seen almost thirty atomic bombings, the Middle East has become fields of black glass that "glows in the dark," the Gulf of Mexico is ecologically dead after a dirty bomb was set off in Miami, and the Vermont Yankee nuclear planet went critical after an earthquake and spewed radiation across New England and Southern Quebec.
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11/22/63 / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
11/22/63 / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: In the Bad Future, Kennedy runs the Vietnam War the same way Bush ran the second Iraq war, with even worse results.
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11/22/63 / int_19b6f396	type	Alternate Timeline
11/22/63 / int_19b6f396	comment	Alternate Timeline: Jake creates two with his forays into the past, both of which are undone when he goes back. In the first, all but one of the Dunning family survived thanks to Jake's intervention, but Harry was killed in Vietnam. In the second, Jake kills Frank Dunning at the graveyard, stops Oswald from assassinating JFK, and creates a Bad Future.
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11/22/63 / int_1ab69ee3	type	Unexpected Virgin
11/22/63 / int_1ab69ee3	comment	Unexpected Virgin: Played for Drama and tragedy. Sadie was trapped in an abusive, loveless marriage with Johnny Clayton for four years; as a result, Jake is Sadie's first truly intimate partner.
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11/22/63 / int_1c7a7a52	type	The Slow Path
11/22/63 / int_1c7a7a52	comment	The Slow Path: The portal in the diner will always lead to 11:58 AM on September 9, 1958, and any trip back through the portal will reset the previous changes. As such, the only way for Jake to actually achieve his goal of saving Kennedy is to live in the past and wait for the eponymous date to arrive. This proves to have some serious consequences for him; see Time Loop Fatigue below.
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11/22/63 / int_1f8cdb5c	type	Who Shot JFK?
11/22/63 / int_1f8cdb5c	comment	Who Shot JFK?: One of the reasons why Jake just doesn't kill Lee Harvey Oswald right off the bat is because of the conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy's assassination and the possibility that another person may have been involved. In the end, it's just Oswald working alone. In the afterword, King notes that after reading all he could on the subject, this is the situation he considers by far the most likely.
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11/22/63 / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
11/22/63 / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The alternate present day created by Kennedy's survival is a very unpleasant place. The Civil Rights Act was never passed and Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by the FBI, so race relations in the United States remain bad. The Vietnam War was ended by the United States nuking Hanoi, resulting in nuclear weapons being used frequently in warfare, so much of the world is radioactive. President Hilary Clinton is now trying to hold the remains of the country together under martial law. Gang warfare, pollution, poverty, extremism, famine, and racism are commonplace.
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11/22/63 / int_21fa6396	type	Regained Memories Sequence
11/22/63 / int_21fa6396	comment	Regained Memories Sequence: In the penultimate episode of the series, Sadie tries to help Jake regain his memory, which he lost as a result of injuries from the attack in the previous episode. When the two visit Lee Harvey Oswald's apartment and talk to Oswald, memories from Jake's observations of and interactions with Oswald flash through Jake's mind, restoring his memory.
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11/22/63 / int_2206fd8c	type	Fallen States of America
11/22/63 / int_2206fd8c	comment	Fallen States of America: The US ends up like this by 2011 as a result of Jake preventing the Kennedy assassination. It gets so bad that Maine votes to leave the US and join Canada instead.
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11/22/63 / int_28d73447	type	Regional Redecoration
11/22/63 / int_28d73447	comment	Regional Redecoration: In the Bad Future, Harry mentions that Hokkaido and three smaller Japanese islands sank sometime in 2007 thanks to the earthquakes.
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11/22/63 / int_2a035a26	type	Allohistorical Allusion
11/22/63 / int_2a035a26	comment	Allohistorical Allusion: In real life, FBI Agent James Hosty eventually believed that Oswald assassinated Kennedy at the behest of the Soviet Union, and that Soviet spies met with him him to give instructions. When Jake manages to stop the assassination, Hosty thinks that he may be a Soviet spy who was sent to stop Oswald from performing an assassination that they didn't want to happen.
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11/22/63 / int_2a195285	type	Revolvers Are Just Better
11/22/63 / int_2a195285	comment	Revolvers Are Just Better: When in Derry, Jake makes use of a .38 revolver. He becomes fond of it and purchases a second one when he moves to Dallas. Ultimately averted, as the limited effective range on the .38 results in Jake missing Oswald and Oswald having a chance to retaliate and kill Sadie.
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11/22/63 / int_2d407620	type	Undead Tax Exemption
11/22/63 / int_2d407620	comment	Undead Tax Exemption: Very much defied: Jake must create a whole new identification for himself, including going to a diploma mill to be allowed to work as a teacher. Unfortunately, it doesn't work: his ruse is exposed to the school, and after he saves JFK, the FBI are flabbergasted to find his records go only as far as 1958, and conclude he's some kind of spy.
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11/22/63 / int_2ec219ee	type	Butterfly of Doom
11/22/63 / int_2ec219ee	comment	Butterfly of Doom: The "butterfly effect" is explicitly mentioned (multiple times) in the novel. Ray Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder is named. It's impossible to make a completely positive change to the past. Positive changes will be accompanied by some negative effect—and a large enough change can unravel the very fabric of the universe.
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11/22/63 / int_2fb61faa	type	Statuesque Stunner
11/22/63 / int_2fb61faa	comment	Statuesque Stunner: Sadie stands about 6'1" and earns admiring glances from plenty of men at the party where she meets Jake.
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11/22/63 / int_3297cfbb	type	Evolving Credits
11/22/63 / int_3297cfbb	comment	Evolving Credits: After going unchanged for most of the series, the opening for the final episode changes things up. Given its rather foreboding imagery, such as the drooping red strings, the diner being on fire, and the overturned car, the missing clock on the wall, it's an early tell that something has Gone Horribly Wrong. In the opening to the third-to-last episode, the newspaper headline also changes from "Kennedy Killed" to "Walker Lives!" This change is reversed again in the following episode.
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11/22/63 / int_336b2997	type	Portal to the Past
11/22/63 / int_336b2997	comment	Portal to the Past: At the back of a diner. Turns out that's where the owner is getting an amazing deal on meat.
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11/22/63 / int_3e95582f	type	The Greatest Story Never Told
11/22/63 / int_3e95582f	comment	The Greatest Story Never Told: With Al's death, his diner closes down and is likely demolished after Jake moves away from Lisbon Falls, making it unlikely anyone will ever use the portal again. After resetting the timeline back to what it was, this leaves Jake as the only person who'll ever truly know what happened.
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11/22/63 / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
11/22/63 / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: Jake takes an instant dislike to both Derry and Dallas, regarding them as depressing, violent places.
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11/22/63 / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
11/22/63 / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Jake finds out that not only did stopping the Kennedy assassination make a world far worse, it will eventually destroy the fabric of time. Jake is able to undo this easily, but sadly he can't ever go back to meet Sadie again. Thankfully, she turns out to still be alive in modern days, albeit wounded by her crazy ex. Ultimately, the only thing he changed was that he aged the years he spent in the past. Both the book and the TV series end with Jake and an elderly Sadie sharing a dance together at the school reunion in the present.
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11/22/63 / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
11/22/63 / int_4482e1ef	comment	Divided States of America: America has declined so horribly in the Bad Future that Maine secedes to join Canada.
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11/22/63 / int_465966a3	type	Drop the Hammer
11/22/63 / int_465966a3	comment	Drop the Hammer: Frank Dunning uses a sledgehammer as his weapon of choice on Halloween night when he murders (or attempts to murder) his family.
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11/22/63 / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
11/22/63 / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Frank Dunning murdered his wife and all but one of his children in a drunken rage. The story of that night is one of the few times that Jake is moved to tears, and the thought that he can change this part of history is one of the motivations for him to accept Al's offer to go back in time.
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11/22/63 / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
11/22/63 / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: Jake Epping is a high school English teacher. When he goes back in time he gets a job working as a substitute teacher, and also claims to be writing a book as a cover for his visits to Dallas. He eventually starts writing the book, and is a little hurt when he is told that it's okay, but nothing really special.
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11/22/63 / int_4e2d95e	type	Thanks for the Mammary
11/22/63 / int_4e2d95e	comment	Thanks for the Mammary: When Jake and Sadie first meet, their introduction involves her tripping, him catching her, and his hand totally unintentionally landing on her breast.
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11/22/63 / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
11/22/63 / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: Jake makes his first trip in time because Harry Dunning tells him the disturbing history of his life, and Jake realizes he can fix it. He makes his final trip because Harry Dunning tells him the disturbing history of the new world his time travel has created, and again Jake knows that he can fix it.
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11/22/63 / int_54d6f53f	type	Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory
11/22/63 / int_54d6f53f	comment	Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Al keeps his memories of adult Harry Dunning when Jake first goes back to save the Dunning family, even though the picture of Harry in the diner disappears with the new timeline. Al and Jake never figure out exactly what the rules are for memory, but think it may have something to do with Al being next to the rabbit hole when Jake went in. Al thinks that the Yellow Card Man knows something because he happens to be right next to where the rabbit hole comes out, but his mind is so damaged through alcohol abuse that it's not really clear what he knows. The Green Card Man eventually explains to Jake that he — and the Yellow Card Man — are aware of all of the changes that Jake is causing, and the strain of holding so many disparate timelines in their minds is what drives them insane.
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11/22/63 / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
11/22/63 / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: The hardback edition is 850 pages.
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11/22/63 / int_55ccbea5	type	Mystery Meat
11/22/63 / int_55ccbea5	comment	Mystery Meat: Subverted. It's assumed by everyone that the reason why Al Templeton's meat is so cheap is because he's using roadkill. In reality it's because he's getting it from 1958.
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11/22/63 / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
11/22/63 / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: One of Jake's friends tells him to stop wasting his time and bet the Bears to win the NFC in 1963. The Bears did win the title that year, but it was still the NFL. The NFL/AFL merger (which led to the creation of the NFC and AFC) would not be agreed to until 1966, and was not consummated until 1970. This was changed in at least one later edition of the book. The prize fight that Jake and Sadie go to was entirely fictional, as is the newspaper article about Mohrenschildt at Jack Ruby's nightclub.
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11/22/63 / int_58273a71	type	Set Wrong What Was Once Made Right
11/22/63 / int_58273a71	comment	Set Wrong What Was Once Made Right: After saving JFK results in The End of the World as We Know It, Jake has to go back and let him die.
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11/22/63 / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
11/22/63 / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Jake frequently considers how he could get the police involved, but quickly realizes that they would be of no help. In Derry, he realizes that there's nothing for the police to actually do, since Frank hasn't committed — or even threatened— any crime yet. Even if he manages to convince them that Frank really will kill his family and they warn him off or stake out the home on Halloween, Frank would just stay home and then get drunk another night. In Dallas, Jake knows that the police have been inundated with so many threats and warnings about threats against President Kennedy that they won't even bother hearing him out. He also harshly describes the Dallas Police Department as "astound[ing] the world with their incompetence" with how they bungle the aftermath of the original assassination, and so knows he can't rely on them to get it right this time.
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11/22/63 / int_5c385fe1	type	Profiling
11/22/63 / int_5c385fe1	comment	Profiling: Discussed in Al's notes of how the assassination originally went down: Bonnie Ray Williams worked at the Texas Book Depository and was one of the people that the police originally suspected of being the shooter, likely because he was black. Oswald, meanwhile, was questioned and then let go once they determined that he worked there.
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11/22/63 / int_60ea2a89	type	Starter Villain
11/22/63 / int_60ea2a89	comment	Starter Villain: Jake decides to test out the time-traveling portal by trying to take down Frank Dunning, the man who knocked off the family of his school's janitor. The first time, he's unable to save one of Harry's brothers, and Harry ends up dead in Vietnam. Showing how hard actually changing the past is.
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11/22/63 / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
11/22/63 / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: In the TV version of the Bad Future, Harry mentions that George Wallace had become president, and Jake reacts with horror. While Wallace was a transformative political figure in the US, he did not appear and wasn't directly referenced in the series. He had been dead for nearly twenty years and off the national stage for nearly forty by the time the show was aired, so they assume a good deal of knowledge about US political history.
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11/22/63 / int_6455e8e	type	Life Will Kill You
11/22/63 / int_6455e8e	comment	Life Will Kill You: In the original timeline, Harry Dunning is the Sole Survivor of his family's massacre at the hands of his father, but was injured in the attack, leaving him walking with a severe limp. After saving most of the family on his first go-round and going to check on them in the present, Jake finds out that without his handicap Harry was eligible for conscription and died in Vietnam as a young man.
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11/22/63 / int_6ada388a	type	Russian Guy Suffers Most
11/22/63 / int_6ada388a	comment	Russian Girl Suffers Most: Lee's Russian wife Marina certainly has it the worst.
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11/22/63 / int_6d196c68	type	More than Just a Teacher
11/22/63 / int_6d196c68	comment	More than Just a Teacher: Jake time travels to the past and works as a high school teacher there, hiding his knowledge of the future.
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11/22/63 / int_73e26388	type	"Mister Sandman" Sequence
11/22/63 / int_73e26388	comment	Mister Sand Man Sequence: An unmistakably late 50s scene greets Jake every time he goes through the portal, scored with Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs 1960 hit "Stay."
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11/22/63 / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
11/22/63 / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "JIMLA!" "Life turns on a dime." "The past harmonizes." "The past is obdurate." "Dancing is life." "Little by slowly" during Sadie's recovery in the hospital, and later Jake's. For the television show: "You shouldn't be here." "I've never been what you might call a 'crying man'"
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11/22/63 / int_794f3589	type	Adaptation Explanation Extrication
11/22/63 / int_794f3589	comment	Adaptation Explanation Extrication: In the TV series, The Guardians never explain that the timeline changes are damaging reality, and Harry only offers the briefest of explanations when Jake meets him in the Bad Future. The viewer is left with the impression that Kennedy just sucked that badly.
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11/22/63 / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
11/22/63 / int_7e74d66f	comment	Politically Correct History: Averted. While traveling through the Jim Crow-era South, Jake notices that the "Colored" toilets at a gas station are a stump over a stream surrounded by poison ivy. He mentions that he thinks about it every time he starts to romanticize the past.
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11/22/63 / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
11/22/63 / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Jake becomes this briefly after seeing the Bad Future, even calling himself the Jimla, in order to save Sadie despite knowing he needs the reset to be total, saying he doesn't care what happens. Eventually the mental anguish of even causing harm by saving her forces him to reset the past completely.
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11/22/63 / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
11/22/63 / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Jake's ex-wife struggled for years with alcohol abuse. He reflects frequently on her efforts to stay sober, the lies she would tell (to others and also to herself), and how it was one of the key components in the end of their marriage. It seems that she did eventually sober up for good, but they separated soon afterwards so he doesn't know if she has since relapsed. The mysterious Yellow-Card Man, a wino who accosts Al (and Jake) every time they exit the rabbit hole for money so he can buy alcohol. Jake eventually learns that it was his knowledge of the changing timelines that drove him to drink.
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11/22/63 / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
11/22/63 / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: In the book, Deke reminisces about Minstrel Shows, obviously indicating that he's racist. In the show, however, he and Ms. Mimi (who is African-American in the show) are romantically involved and the two keep their relationship under wraps out of well-founded fear of public backlash.
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11/22/63 / int_856a425a	type	TheFifties
11/22/63 / int_856a425a	comment	The '50s: The rabbit hole always drops you off in 1958. Jake stays in the past long enough to eventually reach the early '60s, but the culture and society of the '50s hasn't yet gone away.
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11/22/63 / int_87629455	type	No Communities Were Harmed
11/22/63 / int_87629455	comment	No Communities Were Harmed: Like in It, Derry is meant as a stand-in for Bangor, Maine. King never states outright exactly where Jodie, TX (or Denholm County, in which it is located) is meant to be but it is close enough to Dallas/Fort Worth, where Jake moves to in order to spy on Oswald.
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11/22/63 / int_87671ed4	type	Why Couldn't You Save Them?
11/22/63 / int_87671ed4	comment	Why Couldn't You Save Them?: After Jake's initial attempt to save Harry's familyâ€”in which he rescues all but one sibling from his father's rampageâ€”he decides to check up on them in the present, getting in touch with Harry's sister Ellen. Not buying his excuse for calling her, she figures out that he's the "guardian angel" who saved her family and immediately demands to know where he was when Harry died in Vietnam.
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11/22/63 / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
11/22/63 / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: The portal happens to dump travelers out near a dealership with a killer Ford Sunliner for sale.
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11/22/63 / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
11/22/63 / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of romanticizing the so-called "good old days". As noted below, there is quite a lot of Deliberate Values Dissonance and aversions of Politically Correct History.
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11/22/63 / int_8bf8adfa	type	Just Before the End
11/22/63 / int_8bf8adfa	comment	Just Before the End: One of the consequences of Jake interfering with history is Earth being struck with almost constant earthquakes due to the disturbance of reality. It's estimated by scientists that the planet will have completely broken apart by 2080.
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11/22/63 / int_8d23f3a7	type	Timey-Wimey Ball
11/22/63 / int_8d23f3a7	comment	Timey-Wimey Ball: How time travel works can be rather... confusing at times.
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11/22/63 / int_90f2fd8a	type	Grandfather Paradox
11/22/63 / int_90f2fd8a	comment	Grandfather Paradox: Hand Waved. When Jake asks about it, Al just asks what kind of sicko would even want to try? As Jake goes on, it becomes evident that if possible, it would at the least be very, very difficult.
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11/22/63 / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
11/22/63 / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: In the series, Jake hits Johnny in the head with a fire poker, driving the spike clean through his skull. Perhaps as a result of the amateur lobotomy, Johnny just stares at him blankly, looking a bit confused. Then Sadie, to everyone's immense relief, blows Johnny away with the handgun he dropped.
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11/22/63 / int_93ed8515	type	Set Right What Once Went Wrong
11/22/63 / int_93ed8515	comment	Set Right What Once Went Wrong: That's the plan at least.
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11/22/63 / int_94ac3e9b	type	Cutting the Electronic Leash
11/22/63 / int_94ac3e9b	comment	Cutting the Electronic Leash: Jake threw his phone and all his post-1958 change into the pond behind the motel when he realized what they would mean if anybody discovered them. As time progresses, he relishes how much freedom he has not being bound by a cell phone.
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11/22/63 / int_966b4df0	type	Time Police
11/22/63 / int_966b4df0	comment	Time Police: There are "guardians" of respective time portals. Drastic changes to the past make them, along with the time-space continuum itself, worse for the wear.
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11/22/63 / int_98c95895	type	Time Crash
11/22/63 / int_98c95895	comment	Time Crash: Changing the past significantly, whether for good or ill, places such strain on reality that it will eventually be destroyed. When Jake returns to the Bad Future after saving Kennedy, he learns that the earth is being rocked by massive earthquakes that are predicted to destroy the world by 2080. Beyond that, there is also a wet, tearing sound in the sky that not even scientists can explain, but which he realizes is reality itself coming undone.
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11/22/63 / int_99b51746	type	Time Title
11/22/63 / int_99b51746	comment	Time Title: The date of John F. Kennedy's assassination (in the American MM/DD/YY format), which the novel is partially about.
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11/22/63 / int_9b73b497	type	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You
11/22/63 / int_9b73b497	comment	The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Bill Turcotte claims that he is the only one who can kill Frank Dunning. Jake calls him out on this, pointing out that he has had years to try and kill Frank but hasn't taken any action. Jake figures that this is Time itself trying to stop him from keeping Frank from killing his family, and once he 'breaks through' Bill comes to his assistance, which simultaneously does allow him to kill Frank.
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11/22/63 / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
11/22/63 / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Jake worries aloud that saving Kennedy could eventually result in a Bad Future where America has a fascist government and the air is so bad that people have to walk around in gas masks. Guess what Jake finds when he returns to the present... After Jake is heading back to Maine after successfully saving Kennedy, he hears from the cab driver that a major earthquake hit Los Angeles, destroying much of the city and killing over 7,000 people. When he makes it back to 2011, it turns out it was only the first of many.
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11/22/63 / int_9d4b58ba	type	I Let Gwen Stacy Die
11/22/63 / int_9d4b58ba	comment	I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Jake blames Sadie getting slashed in the face on his mucking around with the past. When he eventually fixes the Bad Future his saving Kennedy caused, he finds out that Sadie gets slashed anyway... because the past really does harmonize.
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11/22/63 / int_9d6427ec	type	Time Travel
11/22/63 / int_9d6427ec	comment	Time Travel: The MacGuffin behind a diner allows a modern person to go back and forth in time.
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11/22/63 / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
11/22/63 / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: The story is filled with references to other works by Stephen King. During his stay in Derry, which is also the setting of IT, Jake runs into Richie Tozier and Beverly Marsh, two of the "Losers Club", visits the storm drain where George was killed, and hears Pennywise calling out to him at the ruins of a local ironworks. Later on, he moves to Jodie, Texas, where he hears of a rival football team from nearby town of Arnette, where Stu lives at the beginning of The Stand. The number 19 crops in a few places. An example would be Jake's safe deposit box number being 775. This may make this book fit in with The Dark Tower series. June 19,1999, the day King was hit by a car and nearly killed, is mentioned as the day nuclear war broke out. One of the cars seen in the Bad Future is a Takura Spirit, also from The Dark Tower series. Plymouth Furies keep turning up as the past harmonizes, particularly a red-and-white one driven by Sadie's ex-husband. Jake fears killing Frank Dunning could result in his imprisonment in Shawshank State Prison. In the series, the past throws up hallucinations to confuse and disorient Jake. In the Book Depository, you can see the phrase "REDRUM" spraypainted on a wall and in the Bad Future, you can see "Captain Trips" painted in the background. It has a blink and you'll miss it mention of a Frati Brothers Pawn Shop in the 1958 section. Jake runs into both of them in the course of his mission: one in Derry, and the other in Fort Worth.
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11/22/63 / int_a0390164	type	It's for a Book
11/22/63 / int_a0390164	comment	It's for a Book: Jake's original cover story as to why he was traveling to Dallas. Eventually, he actually starts writing a book.
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11/22/63 / int_a1772950	type	Revolvers Are for Amateurs
11/22/63 / int_a1772950	comment	Revolvers Are for Amateurs: Jake's choice of .38 revolver hints at his inexperience with firearms. Since he's learning as he goes, he chooses it due to its compactness and simplicity.
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11/22/63 / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
11/22/63 / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: After Jake comes back after having saved Kennedy, when talking to Harry.
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11/22/63 / int_a62dca03	type	Year Inside, Hour Outside
11/22/63 / int_a62dca03	comment	Year Inside, Hour Outside: No matter how long you spend in the past, returning through the portal dumps you two minutes after you left.
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11/22/63 / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
11/22/63 / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Bill Turcotte has a much larger role in the miniseries than he had in the book. In the book, he only appears during the part set in Derry. In the series he becomes Jakeâ€™s ally in his quest to save Kennedy and moves with him to Jodie, posing as Jakeâ€™s little brother.
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11/22/63 / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
11/22/63 / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: Jake and Sadie have a classic first meting, where Sadie trips and Jake catches her before she falls.
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11/22/63 / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
11/22/63 / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: Jake creates a spectacularly bad future, where the Vietnam War went nuclear, George Wallace and Curtis LeMay became president, the Civil Rights Act never passed, and racial tensions are even worse. It got so bad that Maine seceded from the USA and has become a Canadian province. In addition to these "normal" results from his tampering, there are also dramatic earthquakes that will destroy the entire planet due to the ruptures in time itself.
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11/22/63 / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
11/22/63 / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Jake denies that it happened between him and Sadie, but he admits that there was definitely a connection right away that grew into love very quickly.
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11/22/63 / int_aa9fcfed	type	Embarrassing Middle Name
11/22/63 / int_aa9fcfed	comment	Embarrassing Middle Name: Averted when Jake tries to pull it on Sadie to put the brakes on their intimate tryst. She simply says, "Laura!" with a grin and continues undressing.
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11/22/63 / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
11/22/63 / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Jake finds himself enjoying the food and culture of the past, but makes a deliberate point to explain to the reader that just because things are nice for him doesn't mean they were nice all the way around. He repeatedly mentions the time he saw a "Colored" bathroom that was just a wooden plank over a stream, and the path to get there was overgrown with poison ivy. Even Deke, one of Jake's kind elderly friends, reminisces fondly about the Minstrel Shows they had when he was younger.
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11/22/63 / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
11/22/63 / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When Jake hears cheerleaders chanting "Jim-La!".
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11/22/63 / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
11/22/63 / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: George de Mohrenschildt basically confesses that he baited Lee Harvey Oswald into shooting at Edwin Walker for fun.
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11/22/63 / int_aec63727	type	Pragmatic Hero
11/22/63 / int_aec63727	comment	Pragmatic Hero: After failing to (completely) stop Frank Dunning on his first trip into the past, Jake mercilessly shoots Frank dead on the second trip.
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11/22/63 / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
11/22/63 / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: Jake feels this hanging over him all during the time he spends in Derry. On the other hand, Jodie, TX may be the first small town to ever appear in a Stephen King novel which isn't an example of this.
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11/22/63 / int_b23a7eee	type	Celebrity Casualty
11/22/63 / int_b23a7eee	comment	Celebrity Casualty: In the altered future, Bill Clinton dies of a heart attack at the 2004 Democratic Convention.
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11/22/63 / int_b41acf08	type	AxeCrazy
11/22/63 / int_b41acf08	comment	Axe-Crazy: Frank Dunning killed his wife and several kids with a hammer in a drunken rage after years of drunken abuse. Jake eventually finds out that he killed his first family as well, but covered it up so nobody ever suspected. Johnny, Sadie's ex-husband, had several mental disorders that are undiagnosed in the past (Jake figures he must have extreme OCD, along with other disorders, when Sadie describes them to him). Sadie herself says that she doesn't think he would actually become violent, but Jake thinks that he will eventually echo Frank Dunning. After he loses his job and is subjected to forced ECT, Johnny mutilates Sadie with a knife and plans to kill either her or Jake.
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11/22/63 / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
11/22/63 / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Jake is thoroughly creeped out by Dallas and flees to Jodie because he can't spend another night there. He finds Dallas ugly, smelly, racist and utterly miserable. And he can sense a great evil in the city, as he did in Derry. King noted in the afterword that some thought he was too hard on Dallas, but claims that, if anything, he was not nearly hard enough on the Dallas of the early 60s. And King made clear that he doesn't think the Dallas of the 2010s is much better.
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11/22/63 / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
11/22/63 / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Oswald's mother, Marguerite.
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11/22/63 / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
11/22/63 / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: While Sadie is recovering from Johnny's attack all Sadie's mother can talk about is how they look in front of Johnny's family. Sadie appropriately throws her out.
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11/22/63 / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
11/22/63 / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: While in the past, someone mentions that having Kennedy for president will lead to the end of the world, with people living in pollution and open sores on their bodies. This is exactly what happens after Jake saves Kennedy and travels back to the future to see how things have changed.
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11/22/63 / int_c5910d80	type	Time-Travelers Are Spies
11/22/63 / int_c5910d80	comment	Time-Travelers Are Spies: In addition to the questions that increasingly pop up over his past, Jake worries that his proximity to figures involved in the Kennedy assassination may implicate him in the plot as well, especially if the FBI finds Al's diary. The FBI agent who questions Jake after the attempt on JFK ultimately assumes he is a spy given his murky background, and arranges for his 'escape' in exchange for staying quiet about how the FBI dropped the ball on Oswald not once but several times. Jake's mysterious disappearance and assumed identity eventually become part of the JFK conspiracy theories in the Bad Future he unwittingly created.
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11/22/63 / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
11/22/63 / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Jake frequently thinks of Lee Harvey Oswald as Oswald Rabbit. The rogue FBI agent who kills Martin Luther King in the Bad Future is named Dwight Holly. Dwight Holly is the name of an FBI agent in James Ellroy's Underworld USA trilogy.
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11/22/63 / int_ca7ec334	comment	Two Lines, No Waiting: In addition to stopping Kennedy's assassination, a large chunk of the novel is spent on Jake's life and various relationships while living in the '50s.
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11/22/63 / int_cc7fae30	comment	Outside-Context Problem: Jake is this to the FBI, who can't figure out how this man has the information he says he has or why there seems to be no record of his existence prior to 1958.
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11/22/63 / int_cdaa029f	comment	Nuclear Weapons Taboo: Thanks to Jake's meddling, this gets broken by George Wallace, who nukes Hanoi on August 9th 1969, exactly 24 years after Nagasaki. This later escalates into a total of 28 nukes going off by 2011, including Bombay, Karachi, the Middle east, and Miami.
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11/22/63 / int_d0f63e83	comment	Magnetic Hero: Jake finds enormous popularity as a teacher in Jodie, Texas. Even after his degree is exposed as fraudulent, he's allowed to walk away with few repercussions.
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11/22/63 / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Mild-mannered librarian Mimi Corcoran, who secretly holds a great deal of clout in the actual running of the school—enough to get Jake hired. She also manages to figure out he's a time traveler. When she's diagnosed with cancer, she goes to Mexico with the intention of either getting the best medical care available or committing suicide while she's still able to do so.
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11/22/63 / int_d417c53d	comment	I'm Mr. [Future Pop Culture Reference]: Constant in the series. When cornered about his past, Jake claims to have made two tours in Korea for the 4077th MAS*H; to have composed a song with three friends called John, Paul, and Ringo; or to be in witness protection after seeing a mafia leader called Michael kill his brother Fredo in a lake. He also makes a reference to the film The Manchurian Candidate before realizing that it has not come out yet, but it lands because the book has.
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11/22/63 / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Ms. Mimi is African American in the series, as is Jake's ex-wife (whose race isn't identified in the book).
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11/22/63 / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: "Poundcake" is Jake and Sadie's euphemism for sex, a reference to the dessert Jake had bought before their first night together.
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11/22/63 / int_d9c4365c	comment	Reset Button: Anyone who travels through the portal overwrites the actions of the previous person. Zack Lang, a.k.a. the Green Card Man, hints that there may be a lot more work involved offstage.
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11/22/63 / int_db0cd558	comment	It's Okay to Cry: Deconstructed, Jake Epping is a man who doesn't cry, even when everybody around him thinks he should. It's not that he doesn't feel sadness or anger, and it's not that he's repressed, he just doesn't cry. This leads to people thinking that he is cold or emotionless when he doesn't even cry at intense personal trauma. His ex-wife described his lack of tears as one of the reasons for why she left him.
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11/22/63 / int_db99b292	comment	Mondegreen Gag: One of the characters Jake meets is called "Silent Mike", because when he was little, he misheard the song "Silent Night", thinking that it was all about him.
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11/22/63 / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Lampshaded. Situations keep repeating for Jake as the past "harmonizes." In the series, Sadie not only happens to be visiting Lisbon on the exact day the portal drops you off, but she is actually passing in a car at the exact moment.
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11/22/63 / int_deb39de3	comment	The rogue FBI agent who kills Martin Luther King in the Bad Future is named Dwight Holly. Dwight Holly is the name of an FBI agent in James Ellroy's Underworld USA trilogy.
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11/22/63 / int_e57c714d	comment	Insane Equals Violent: Jake apparently believes this. He is certain that Johnny is a danger to Sadie's life, even though he just seems to suffer from some kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder that, while it certainly makes him behave like an emotionally abusive control freak and caused him to slap her in the face once, should not immediately translate into being homicidal. He turns out to be right, mind you. He also refers to Oswald as one of "the crazies," who he seems to consider violent per definition.
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11/22/63 / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Jake and Sadie.
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11/22/63 / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: In IT, Mr. Keane is a civilized man with just a bit of a nasty edge to him, exemplified by him telling Eddie the truth about his supposed asthma but at the same time seeming to enjoy the distress this causes Eddie a little too much. In his appearance in this book, he's an all-out Jerkass. The same can be said to have happened to the city of Derry as a whole, with the subtle wrongness from IT having turned a great deal more overt.
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11/22/63 / int_eadc018f	comment	Pinball Protagonist: Jake has to observe Frank Dunning and Lee Harvey Oswald but avoid actually interacting with them at all costs due to the very real danger of altering their behavior in a way he won't be able to predict. Because of this, for the overwhelming majority of the book, Jake just follows his targets around and does almost nothing to progress the plot himself.
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11/22/63 / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
11/22/63 / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Al believed preventing the Kennedy assassination would lead to a better and brighter future, and recruits Jake's help in doing just that. Instead, this causes serious damage to the fabric of time, and creates an even bleaker future.
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11/22/63 / int_ec87ed0	type	Timeline-Altering MacGuffin
11/22/63 / int_ec87ed0	comment	Timeline-Altering MacGuffin: Al provides Jake with detailed notes on everything leading up to the Kennedy assassination, including in-depth research into Lee Harvey Oswald's life, personality, and possible conspiracy connections. Al also gives Jake some sports statistics which he can use to gain some extra cash in an emergency. Jake uses this knowledge to convince Sadie that he is telling the truth about the Kennedy assassination.
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11/22/63 / int_edb16be9	comment	Phony Degree: Jake has a genuine degree... from 2011, and knows better than to produce it to get a job in the late 1950s/early 1960s. So he gets a second degree from a diploma mill. It only works for so long, as the school officials in Jodie take time to investigate his background. A state law requiring vaccination records for all schoolteachers ultimately undoes Jake's ruse, although he's garnered enough goodwill that he's allowed simply to leave once his contract expires rather than forfeit all pay and possibly go to jail.
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11/22/63 / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
11/22/63 / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Al Templeton initially uses the time portal to get meat at a cheap price in 1958 to make a profit in the present.
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11/22/63 / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: No matter how well-maintained a car may be, when Jake attempts to alter the past any vehicle he is driving or riding in spontaneously breaks down with excessive mechanical problems that weren't there yesterday. Jake's Sunliner starts the book as a pristine car that he grows extremely attached to. Over the course of the novel, the wear-and-tear from five years hard driving across the country turns into a shaky, near-wreck that eventually breaks down completely.
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11/22/63 / int_f360fc33	type	Dumbass Has a Point
11/22/63 / int_f360fc33	comment	Dumbass Has a Point: In the series, Bill asks a number of good questions that Jake doesn't have answers for.
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11/22/63 / int_f5367df1	comment	Time Loop Fatigue: Played with. Jake can take advantage of a time portal to go back in time to approximately five years before the JFK assassination. However, every time he returns to the present only a few minutes have gone by, and if he goes back then everything resets like he was never there. So if he prevents JFK's assassination, if he goes back it resets so he'd have to stop it all over again. He goes back and lives there five years in order to prevent JFK's murder, but loses the woman he loves and preventing JFK's murder resulted in a Crapsack World. He can go back, but then he'd have to live the five years again, but he's already five years older, he's tired, he doesn't want to go through those five years in the past again, and he was already older than the woman he loved in the first place and doesn't know if she'll still be attracted to him as an even older man.
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11/22/63 / int_faf36236	type	Cyberpunk
11/22/63 / int_faf36236	comment	Cyberpunk: The horrific 2011 Jake encounters is a downplayed version. It has both devastation and futuristic electric cars.
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11/22/63 / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
11/22/63 / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Subverted. Sadie is disfigured and given a Glasgow Grin on one side of her face by her crazy ex-husband. She gets better by the end of the book but still retains a scar.
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11/22/63 / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
11/22/63 / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: King did extensive research on what life in the 1950s was like (helped by the fact that he grew up in the fifties; he would have been eleven in the year the story is set) and even interviewed historians about what life may have been like had Kennedy not been shot. The appendices even include recipes from the period.
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11/22/63 / int_ffd816e7	comment	Everything Trying to Kill You: When Jake tries to change the past, ever more significant calamities befall him. When he gets close to making a big change, the universe stops dicking around and tries to kill him repeatedly.
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