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Eye of a Fly

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32 referencing feature instances

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Eye of a Fly	label	Eye of a Fly
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Eye of a Fly	comment	Eye of a Fly is a novel by Justin R. Smith. It follows Ernest Wentworth, a slum-dwelling autistic teen in The '60s, during his first year of college. Other characters include his drunken, emotionally abusive father Harry, his mother Patricia, his artistically talented but emotionally troubled younger brother Warren, his outgoing ten-year-old sister Tiffany, and Annie, a brain-damaged girl with whom he falls in love.
Eye of a Fly	fetched	2023-11-03T01:47:19Z
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Eye of a Fly / int_121865ac	type	Noble Savage
Eye of a Fly / int_121865ac	comment	Noble Savage: Harry loves talking about the Immaculate Savage, whose perceptions haven't been clouded by contact with civilization and its fascist thought control. He thinks that even knowing how to read pollutes the soul, which makes Ernest wonder if he's afraid of polluting other people's souls by working as a writer.
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Eye of a Fly / int_19209d54	type	Sibling Rivalry
Eye of a Fly / int_19209d54	comment	Sibling Rivalry: Warren hates Tiffany, for reasons Ernest can't discern.
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Eye of a Fly / int_2310dacb	type	Dead Man Writing
Eye of a Fly / int_2310dacb	comment	Dead Man Writing: Harry writes a letter to Ernest as he's dying of multiple organ failure, confessing how he and his gang mugged and murdered a man when he was fifteen.
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Eye of a Fly / int_301476a3	type	Car Meets House
Eye of a Fly / int_301476a3	comment	Car Meets House: A car smashes into a corner pet store, destroying the cheaply-made building and killing a family on the second floor.
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Eye of a Fly / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
Eye of a Fly / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: As a middle-aged man in The '90s, Ernest revisits his childhood neighborhood with his wife Erika while researching for a book.
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Eye of a Fly / int_33ba31cc	type	Grade Skipper
Eye of a Fly / int_33ba31cc	comment	Grade Skipper: Ernest skipped a grade in elementary school and was in a program that let him finish junior high in two years instead of three, allowing him to start college at sixteen.
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Eye of a Fly / int_347c2	type	Inkblot Test
Eye of a Fly / int_347c2	comment	Inkblot Test: Ronald eagerly describes how his analyst gave him a Rorschach test, which showed him that he sees the world as a giant breast. Harry mutters, "You need an analyst to tell you that?"
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Eye of a Fly / int_34f8042a	type	Gratuitous French
Eye of a Fly / int_34f8042a	comment	Gratuitous French: Ernest's Aunt Jocelyn likes dropping random French words and phrases into her sentences, because "I think français is so much more élégant than a guttural tongue like English."
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Eye of a Fly / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
Eye of a Fly / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: Ernest's neighborhood was once a fetid swamp. Now it has the highest murder rate in the US. One book describes it as "a slum as old, as desolate, as depraved as any that can be found in the land." By the Distant Finale, the crime rate has gone down and the economy has improved enough that it's actually a pleasant place now.
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Eye of a Fly / int_47b21ca6	type	Stress Vomit
Eye of a Fly / int_47b21ca6	comment	Stress Vomit: Ernest vomits into a toilet before his date with Annie.
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Eye of a Fly / int_4b1afa0d	type	Spiteful Spit
Eye of a Fly / int_4b1afa0d	comment	Spiteful Spit: Ernest's Aunt Faith used to occasionally take him to church. When his antireligious father found out, he went to the church and spat at the minister.
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Eye of a Fly / int_4fb8db6a	type	Skipping School
Eye of a Fly / int_4fb8db6a	comment	Skipping School: Warren skips an entire month of school. He tells Harry he spent the time playing handball by himself.
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Eye of a Fly / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
Eye of a Fly / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: After Warren's suicide, Harry tearfully discusses how he should have supported him and not made fun of his learning difficulties.
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Eye of a Fly / int_5addd374	type	Your Makeup Is Running
Eye of a Fly / int_5addd374	comment	Your Makeup Is Running: Ernest sees an underage prostitute with a bruise on her cheek and big streaks of makeup running from her eyes.
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Eye of a Fly / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Eye of a Fly / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Annie pushes a little boy out of the way of a truck, then has a seizure and is hit by a car before she can get to safety.
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Eye of a Fly / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Eye of a Fly / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Ernest thinks it's fitting that his immigrant grandfather was born Alex Molotov. Bursts of violence are a family tradition.
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Eye of a Fly / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Eye of a Fly / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Warren's depression finally gets the better of him, and he drinks an entire quart of ant poison. He lingers for about a week before finally dying. Aunt Cynthia is so despondent that she commits suicide herself with sleeping pills.
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Eye of a Fly / int_717d735a	type	Suicide by Pills
Eye of a Fly / int_717d735a	comment	Suicide by Pills: After Warren succumbs to his depression and kills himself by drinking ant poison, Aunt Cynthia becomes so despondent that she eventually follows suit by overdosing on sleeping pills.
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Eye of a Fly / int_72e1bd14	type	Bungled Suicide
Eye of a Fly / int_72e1bd14	comment	Bungled Suicide: Twice Patricia has swallowed roach poison. Both times Ernest had to spend the night in the hospital while they pumped her stomach.
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Eye of a Fly / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
Eye of a Fly / int_75538142	comment	Friend to All Children: Annie works at the Day Care Center, where she does most of the childcare. She's popular with kids due to her storytelling abilities.
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Eye of a Fly / int_7cd98af5	type	Potty Failure
Eye of a Fly / int_7cd98af5	comment	Potty Failure: After Warren attempts suicide and Ernest thinks he sees Annie cheating on him, Ernest has an emotional breakdown while walking home and becomes incapable of processing anything he sees or hears. When he recovers, he finds that he made it to his bedroom, but he soiled the bed.
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Eye of a Fly / int_8a800d36	type	Bilingual Dialogue
Eye of a Fly / int_8a800d36	comment	Bilingual Dialogue: Ernest overhears a couple loudly arguing in Spanish and shouting death threats in English.
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Eye of a Fly / int_8e20ae0d	type	Child Prodigy
Eye of a Fly / int_8e20ae0d	comment	Child Prodigy: Ernest taught himself calculus when he was eight.
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Eye of a Fly / int_937fc70c	type	Chalk Outline
Eye of a Fly / int_937fc70c	comment	Chalk Outline: While leaving his apartment building, Ernest almost steps on the body of a girl who was murdered right outside. He arrives just as the police are wrapping up their investigation. When they remove the corpse, they leave a chalk outline.
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Eye of a Fly / int_aeb88a57	type	Kids Prefer Boxes
Eye of a Fly / int_aeb88a57	comment	Kids Prefer Boxes: When Ernest was little, his mother gave him a present wrapped in red cellophane. Ernest was entranced by the way the light shone through the cellophane and stared at it all day. Then his mother ruined it by opening the present.
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Eye of a Fly / int_b3f4b615	type	Raging Stiffie
Eye of a Fly / int_b3f4b615	comment	Raging Stiffie: To Ernest's embarrassment, even casual interactions with attractive women leave him with uncontrollable sexual thoughts and a visible erection, but sexual encounters leave him cold, which is why he's still a virgin.
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Eye of a Fly / int_b761a11e	type	Dyeing for Your Art
Eye of a Fly / int_b761a11e	comment	Dyeing for Your Art: In-universe example. Ernest meets an actress who eats chocolate truffles to gain weight for her next role.
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Eye of a Fly / int_ba0b808e	type	Tantrum Throwing
Eye of a Fly / int_ba0b808e	comment	Tantrum Throwing: Warren once threw a TV at Tiffany.
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Eye of a Fly / int_c0ec82a9	type	Lives in a Van
Eye of a Fly / int_c0ec82a9	comment	Lives in a Van: Annie used to live in a car after she ran away from her abusive foster home.
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Eye of a Fly / int_d0d90308	type	Bizarre Taste in Food
Eye of a Fly / int_d0d90308	comment	Bizarre Taste in Food: Warren makes his own meals, like ice cream with mustard and hamburger with orange juice spread over it.
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Eye of a Fly / int_d9587b39	type	Happily Failed Suicide
Eye of a Fly / int_d9587b39	comment	Happily Failed Suicide: When Annie was thirteen, she tried to throw herself and her baby brother off a bridge because her father planned to force her into prostitution to pay for his addiction, and she thought the whole family would be better off dead. Instead she fell down and was run over by a truck, resulting in brain damage that destroyed her ability to read and left her with regular seizures. Her uninjured brother was put up for adoption, while she was placed in an abusive foster home and later spent time homeless. Things started looking up for her after Father Maldonado took her in and let her stay and work at the Day Care Center, and now she considers the truck accident to be a gift from God because it prevented her from killing herself.
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Eye of a Fly / int_f8b3d078	type	True Art Is Angsty
Eye of a Fly / int_f8b3d078	comment	True Art Is Angsty: Harry, who dreams of writing the Great American Novel, seems to believe this.
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Eye of a Fly / int_fec81854	type	Sensory Overload
Eye of a Fly / int_fec81854	comment	Sensory Overload: Ernest finds yelling painful and crowds overwhelming. Things get especially bad late in the book when he has an emotional breakdown that messes up his sensory processing, causing every sight and sound to seem painful and nonsensical before he shuts down completely and walks home in a zombie-like state.
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