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The Slap

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The Slap	comment	The Slap is a critically acclaimed novel written by Christos Tsiolkas in 2008, which was adapted by The ABC into a television mini-series in 2011 with an American adaptation aired by NBC in February 2015.The story, set in the suburbs of Melbourne (New York in the American version), follows the lives of a group of people after they witness a man slapping someone else's child at a party. The single act is so divisive, that a family and life-long friends are torn apart by interwoven loyalties, and the result is not pretty.The book has won or been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Man Booker Prize 2010, and Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009 (in the latter case it won Best Book).Not to be confused with a tie-in website to the Nickelodeon teen-comedy Victorious.
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The Slap / int_184e7708	type	Hands-Off Parenting
The Slap / int_184e7708	comment	Hands-Off Parenting: Rosie's way of parenting Hugo is to let him do whatever he wants. Harry dislikes the idea, and it's implied that while Gary actually doesn't agree, he doesn't want to speak up.
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The Slap / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Slap / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Harry sees himself as this as he does genuinely love his son, and believed he was protecting his kid from being hit by Hugo.
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The Slap / int_211c82f5	type	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!
The Slap / int_211c82f5	comment	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!: Played With: The series asks what would happen if someone else physically assaulted your child.
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The Slap / int_2994d40d	type	Double Standard: Violence, Child on Adult
The Slap / int_2994d40d	comment	Double Standard: Violence, Child on Adult: The series thoroughly deconstructs this from several angles. Spoiled Brat Hugo is cheating at cricket at a family barbecue, causing a fight with the other children and lashing out with a cricket bat. When Harry, the father of one of the children, steps in to stop it, Hugo kicks him hard on the shin, and Harry responds with a hard slap across the face. The whole of the rest of the plot deals with the ramifications to the various family and friends who get dragged into the ensuing hostilities between Harry and the boy's Beloved Smother.
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The Slap / int_301c4238	type	Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal
The Slap / int_301c4238	comment	Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal: Rosie seems to have a firm belief that Hugo - a notorious brat who has an established reputation for being an incredibly obnoxious out-of-control bully at the age of four - is her sweet little baby angel in a big bad world that either doesn't understand him or is out to get him. Even when she has solid evidence of Hugo being in the wrong for something, she always tries to find someone or something else to pin the blame on.
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The Slap / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Slap / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Harry is found guilty of attempted assault of a minor in the third degree, but the judge sentences him to time already served, saying that spending time at Riker's Island would not make any difference to him. Gary and Rosie don't win either. The judge tells the parents that Child Protective Services will visit them, and if Hugo hurts someone or gets hurt, they will be held responsible for it. On the brighter side, Connie and Ritchie leave for college, and Anouk's friends gather at her home to welcome her new baby.
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The Slap / int_466ccbb4	type	Gayngst
The Slap / int_466ccbb4	comment	Gayngst: Richie is struggling to come to terms with the fact that he's gay and in love with his classmate Nick. His anonymous harassment of Hector only further confuses his obsession with him.
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The Slap / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Slap / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Harry. As bad-tempered, bigoted and generally abrasive as he can be, he does have a softer side, is capable of kindness and adores his son.
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The Slap / int_4a0cd65f	comment	Womanchild: Rosie often behaves like one whenever she gets upset, having tantrums like a Spoiled Brat. It's no wonder Hugo is the way he is.
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The Slap / int_4a6e9fd9	type	Obnoxious In-Laws
The Slap / int_4a6e9fd9	comment	Obnoxious In-Laws: A mild case with Manolis and Koula towards Aisha. They tolerate her for Hector's sake, but clearly make it known that they do not approve of her as their daughter-in-law. Averted for Manolis in the novel, as he repeatedly defends Aisha to Koula, pointing out she's been a wonderful wife to Hector.
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The Slap / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
The Slap / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: The child who is slapped - the reader/viewer is left to consider; was the slap abusive, was the child's Hands-Off Parenting upbringing abusive, or both? Other, less controversial examples are also present. This is also Harry's big secret: he cheats on his wife and abuses her and is also a cocaine addict. What's worse is that Hector and Aisha knew and their own marriage buckles. In fact, Rosie and Aisha's friendship is destroyed over this.
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The Slap / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Slap / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Episode 5 of the miniseries is set about two months after the previous one.
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The Slap / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
The Slap / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Harry, to the point of it being his biggest issue and cause of all of his woes.
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The Slap / int_65b696be	type	Fille Fatale
The Slap / int_65b696be	comment	Fille Fatale: Connie may be only 17, but she was conducting an affair with Hector. She feels mildly guilty at first because Aisha is her boss, but she refuses to back off even after Hector decides to end it. Her anger at Hector ending their affair leads her to lie to her best friend Richie that Hector raped her, which only brings more trouble and ruin to Hector's family. Then it turns out she turns her affections towards another teenager at school, quickly forgets about Hector, and still has no idea how much destruction her lie brought.
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The Slap / int_661d7909	type	Maligned Mixed Marriage
The Slap / int_661d7909	comment	Maligned Mixed Marriage: Hector's mother seems extremely keen to belittle Aisha by indirect means. This seems somewhat centered around the fact that Aisha is not Greek. One example is the mother hijacking the couple's already-planned holiday by making the holiday in Greece with 'family' instead, seems imbued with the implication that if only Aisha was Greek such issues would not be a problem.
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The Slap / int_680bb6b1	type	Hot-Blooded
The Slap / int_680bb6b1	comment	Hot-Blooded: Harry. It strongly overlaps with Hair-Trigger Temper as his actions stem from acting out without thinking.
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The Slap / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Slap / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Harry may be a bastard, but considering that Hugo was about to hit a kid with a cricket bat, he's pretty justified in wanting to do something about it. Slapping him might not have been the best idea, though, and especially not when the bat had already been taken away (as it harms his defence in court). Anouk even tells Harry that although she felt that Hugo deserved to get disciplined, she firmly believes she's in no position to get involved in the mess.
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The Slap / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Slap / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: A child is slapped once. It tears a family apart. While several characters point out it wasn't that bad, the drama that unfolds is largely based more on the events that take off afterwards because of it and the tensions that had been building for a long time before, rather than the actual slap itself.
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The Slap / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
The Slap / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: Gary to Rosie. He doesn't necessarily like her parenting style any more than Harry does and is willing to overlook what happened as simply an unfortunate incident where Harry lost his temper and apologized and leave it at that. But Rosie refuses to listen to him and charges on with her campaign against Harry.
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The Slap / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
The Slap / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Harry definitely has aspects of this, though The Slap isn't a show where any character is set up as a hero or villain.
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The Slap / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
The Slap / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: Both sides of the conflict have their good and bad sides and deserving of sympathy to some extent. Hugo is unquestionably an awful brat but he's still just a kid who hasn't yet learned to control his emotions and whose parents refuse to teach him how to do so. Gary and Rosie are deeply flawed people and Rosie in particular seems more focused on how to spin the situation in her own favor than what's best for Hugo but they are still parents defending their child and who aren't wrong that Harry crossed a line. Harry meanwhile is a bigoted jerk with a bad temper but he's also a parent who felt he was just defending his own son and is shown throughout as having redeeming traits, including being a good father to Rocco and being capable of kindness to others and even privately being ashamed of how he acted. No one is completely good or evil. This is all lampshaded by Aisha:
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The Slap / int_7bb1296b	type	"Rashomon"-Style
The Slap / int_7bb1296b	comment	"Rashomon"-Style: The events in the book are explored through the perspective of several different characters.
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The Slap / int_7c14d0f2	type	Rejected Apology
The Slap / int_7c14d0f2	comment	Rejected Apology: A few days after the incident, Harry (at Hector's behest) tries to apologize to Rosie and Gary at their house for said slap, but the couple not only refuse to accept it but also accuse him of hitting his wife or child. This only angers Harry.
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The Slap / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Slap / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Rosie gives one to Harry and receives one from Bilal. The Judge at the end of the American mini-series delivers one to the characters (telling Harry that spending time at Riker's Island would not make any difference on him and warning Rosie and Gary not to walk off smug because she is going to send CPS to visit them and if Hugo hurts someone or gets hurt, they will be held responsible) and tells them off for wasting her time when there are more important cases at stake (like the rape of a 9 year old girl).
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The Slap / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
The Slap / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: While the Aussie miniseries ended with Hugh as much of a brat as ever, the US one does show him having gotten a little bit better by the end though wheter this is due to Rosie's influence is unclear.
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The Slap / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
The Slap / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Anouk averted this in the Australian version, but played straight in the American version.
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The Slap / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
The Slap / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Harry's bad temper is his. The entire series could've been avoided were he able to control his anger better.
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The Slap / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
The Slap / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Despite Hugo being an unbearable little terror, Rosie mollycoddles and babies him right down the the point of breastfeeding him at four years old.
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The Slap / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
The Slap / int_b9c3de84	comment	Bumbling Dad: Played for drama. Hector is a vice-riddled man who has no idea how to manage his own children, leaving it to his wife as much as possible.
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The Slap / int_c02f148d	type	Both Sides Have a Point
The Slap / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: Those on Harry's side aren't wrong that Hugo was being a ill-tempered Spoiled Brat who was swinging a bat around that could've hurt someone; those on Hugo's side make a valid point that it wasn't Harry's place to discipline someone else's child, especially if it's slapping a child in the face, especially after he already took the bat away from the kid, although it was probably a reflex to having been kicked in the shin. Similarly, Harry is absolutely right that Hugo's parents make almost no effort to discipline or reign him in, no matter how horribly he behaves, and Rosie and Gary are right that it's not Harry's place to do so, especially when it involves violent behavior.
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The Slap / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
The Slap / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: After he's humiliated at Aisha's clinic, Richie takes an intentional overdose of sleeping pills. His mom intervenes just in time to take him to the hospital to pump out his stomach.
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The Slap / int_cfc52d52	type	Spoiled Brat
The Slap / int_cfc52d52	comment	Spoiled Brat: Hugo. So, so much. At one point, he actually spits at an old man who has done absolutely nothing to him, and his mother's response is to assume said old man startled her child. Depressingly, this is in the last chapter/episode, leaving the reader/viewer with the realisation that she has learned nothing from the experience. Surprisingly, in the final minutes of the series finale of the US miniseries, it appears that Rosie has learned a lesson as Hugo is noticeably more well-behaved than when he was first on-screen
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The Slap / int_d0c13631	type	Mrs. Robinson
The Slap / int_d0c13631	comment	Mrs. Robinson: Anouk's relationship with Rhys.
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The Slap / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
The Slap / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: in the book Aisha is Indian-Australian, in the miniseries she is Mauritian-Australian. The seductive bloke who was Asian-Canadian in the book becomes a Latino-Australian.
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The Slap / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Slap / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Rosie, after Harry slaps Hugo. Not an especially positive portrayal though as she goes way overboard in reacting, a fact even Gary calls her out on.
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The Slap / int_ff04e190	type	Inciting Incident
The Slap / int_ff04e190	comment	Inciting Incident: Harry slapping Hugo. A lot of the other issues that come up have presumably been bubbling away for ages, but it's the tension and family disharmony caused by the slap that make them blow up.
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The Slap / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Slap / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Harry's affectionate scene with his son.
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