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Wringer

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Wringer is a Children's Literature book by Jerry Spinelli.Set in a town where pigeons are annually shot once a year for charity, Wringer deals with the peer pressure Palmer LaRue faces. He doesn't like the annual festival, and to make matters worse, he's almost 10, which is the year boys became wringers—any pigeons left alive after being shot have their necks wrung.The local gang doesn't help matters. A group of tough kids, Beans, Henry, and Mutto try to accept Palmer into their fold to become wringers, as well as pick on Dorothy, a girl Palmer secretly likes. But there's something even worse that Palmer's keeping from all of them—his parents, the gang, Dorothy, and the town.He has a pet pigeon named Nipper, and he must do everything in his power to keep it safe from the town that murders pigeons.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })But one day, that secret may be revealed...
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 Intentional Mess Making
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 Intentional Mess Making: Palmer spits on the classroom floor to stay after school so that Nipper won't find him with the hooligans.
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 Scary Teeth
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 Scary Teeth: One of the boys in Beans' gang is nauseatingly described as having "Technicolor teeth".
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 Virtue Is Weakness
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 Virtue Is Weakness: Those boys other than Palmer certainly think so. Any thought whatsoever for lives of the pigeons is mocked and attacked.
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 Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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 Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: Dorothy releases Nipper near the railroad tracks, which unbeknownst to her is the very place where they go to capture the pigeons.
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 Death by Newbery Medal
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 Death by Newbery Medal: Barely averted. While Nipper is wounded, he survives.
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 Shaming the Mob
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 Watching Palmer act to protect Nipper in front of everyone, knowing exactly how they've always acted towards kindness in general, does this for the people celebrating the annual festival.
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 Heel Realization
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 Heel Realization: Keeping Nipper does this for Palmer, showing him just how messed up his hometown really is. Watching Palmer act to protect Nipper in front of everyone, knowing exactly how they've always acted towards kindness in general, does this for the people celebrating the annual festival.
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 What the Hell, Hero?
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 What the Hell, Hero?: Dorothy calls Palmer out for being in and laughing with the gang as they pick on her.
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 Mercy Kill
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 Mercy Kill: What a wringer's job is - to wring the necks of any wounded pigeons in order to end their suffering.
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 Shoo the Dog
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 Shoo the Dog: Not wanting Nipper to be found and used in the upcoming festival, Palmer has Dorothy smuggle the pigeon away to be released. Sadly, this backfires.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

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 A Fête Worse than Death / int_41c7e767
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 A Real Man Is a Killer / int_41c7e767
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 Children's Literature / int_41c7e767
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 Intentional Mess Making / int_41c7e767
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 Milestone Birthday Angst / int_41c7e767