Hearts in Atlantis: Difference between revisions

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* [[Cool Old Guy]] - Ted, again.

* [[Draft Dodging]] - The characters in the title story try to do this.

* [[Death By Adaptation]] - Carol dies in the film.

* [[Death by Adaptation]] - Carol dies in the film.

* [[Dirty Old Man]] - Bobby's mother accuses Ted of being this and molesting Bobby. Deep down, however, she just feels guilty for neglecting her son.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]] - The Low Men are implied to be these in the book.

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* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]] - Understandably, all of the ''Dark Tower'' references were removed from the film. As such, the Low Men are government agents who want to use Ted's ability for their own purposes.

* [[Psychic Dreams for Everyone]] - After gaining a bit of Ted's psychic abilities, {{spoiler|Bobby dreams about his mother being raped by her employers.}}

* [[Shout Out]] - Ted gives Bobby a copy of ''[[Lord of the Flies]]''. The book itself is important to the story both as an object (it's passed around to different characters throughout) and thematically.

* [[Shout-Out]] - Ted gives Bobby a copy of ''[[Lord of the Flies]]''. The book itself is important to the story both as an object (it's passed around to different characters throughout) and thematically.

* [[War Is Hell]] - Shown with Sully's recollection of the war.

* [[You Remind Me of X]] - Bobby gets told by a waitress how much he reminds her of his long-dead and barely remembered father. Sure enough, at one point when she's totally petrified she [[Wrong Name Outburst|calls Bobby by his father's name]].