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The Pelican & After

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The Pelican & After is a 1983 novel by Tom Wallace Lyons.Tony Hastings, a mentally ill fourteen-year-old, has been attending a boarding school for emotionally disturbed children since he was eight years old. As he struggles with his violent urges, suicidal thoughts, and guilt over his inability to feel love, he and his fellow students must also deal with the many strict, nonsensical rules and the school's tyrannical director Dr. Vorlichten, aka Dr. V.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Dr. V is a thinly-veiled parody of Bruno Bettelheim, director of the Orthogenic School between 1944 and 1973.
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Annoying Younger Sibling: Tony's twelve-year-old brother Paul, who enrages Tony by saying he goes to a "wacky school."
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Big Brother Bully: Tony was sent to the School partly because he used to beat up on Paul.
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Funetik Aksent: Dr. V speaks with a phonetic Austrian accent.
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Grievous Bottley Harm: Paul threatens to hit Tony with a bottle at one point.
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Love at First Sight: During a family vacation in Acapulco, Tony meets a woman named Marta. She tells him that about five years ago, she saw a man standing by a truck and instantly knew that this was the man she was going to marry. The story ended badly: he turned out to be a drug addict and died in an institution.
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