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* [[Nausea Fuel]]: When Matteo finds out what happens to children who try to run from the LRA...''after'' they've been killed.
* [[Nausea Fuel]]: When Matteo finds out what happens to children who try to run from the LRA...''after'' they've been killed.
* [[No Name Given]]: Ruth is known as "[[Shrinking Violet|The girl with the downcast eyes]]" for a significant portion of the novel because Matteo can't work up the nerve to ask her name. Many, ''many'' other characters--the majority, in fact--are known only by first name. Some characters are known only by a nickname: "Panga," for example, means "machete" and indicates that the eponymous character is lethal in battle, while the boy everyone calls "Lazy" has a problem falling asleep in the middle of duty. Some characters, like the children in the Amal regiment, discard their real names and take up nicknames to distance themselves from the lives they can never go back to. Lieutenant Luo and Mrs. Alowo are known only by their last names {{spoiler|but Luo's first name is revealed to be David by Lucy, who grew up with him}}. Marunde outright refuses to offer his surname. And it's not until the very end that Auley and Ruth get last names: Zuma and Mallory.
* [[No Name Given]]: Ruth is known as "[[Shrinking Violet|The girl with the downcast eyes]]" for a significant portion of the novel because Matteo can't work up the nerve to ask her name. Many, ''many'' other characters--the majority, in fact--are known only by first name. Some characters are known only by a nickname: "Panga," for example, means "machete" and indicates that the eponymous character is lethal in battle, while the boy everyone calls "Lazy" has a problem falling asleep in the middle of duty. Some characters, like the children in the Amal regiment, discard their real names and take up nicknames to distance themselves from the lives they can never go back to. Lieutenant Luo and Mrs. Alowo are known only by their last names {{spoiler|but Luo's first name is revealed to be David by Lucy, who grew up with him}}. Marunde outright refuses to offer his surname. And it's not until the very end that Auley and Ruth get last names: Zuma and Mallory.
* [[No Periods Period]]: Averted.
* [[No Periods, Period]]: Averted.
* [[Orphans Ordeal]]
* [[Orphan's Ordeal]]
* [[Puppy Love]]: Matteo and Ruth.
* [[Puppy Love]]: Matteo and Ruth.
* [[Reluctant Warrior]]: Matteo; arguably ''all'' of the children {{spoiler|except Auley}}.
* [[Reluctant Warrior]]: Matteo; arguably ''all'' of the children {{spoiler|except Auley}}.
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* [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]]: See [[Human Shield]] above.
* [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]]: See [[Human Shield]] above.
** Some of the LRA's targets avert this, but they're in the minority.
** Some of the LRA's targets avert this, but they're in the minority.
* [[Zero Percent Approval Rating]]: The LRA more or less has one of these, [[Real Life Writes the Plot|as in real life]], unless you are an [[Church Militant|overly zealous Christian]] who thinks no one in Africa should be allowed to practice a religion other than Christianity. However, they're still winning the war {{spoiler|initially}} by a combination of guerrilla warfare and their enemies being [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child|unwilling to murder the child soldiers they send out on the frontlines]].
* [[Zero-Percent Approval Rating]]: The LRA more or less has one of these, [[Real Life Writes the Plot|as in real life]], unless you are an [[Church Militant|overly zealous Christian]] who thinks no one in Africa should be allowed to practice a religion other than Christianity. However, they're still winning the war {{spoiler|initially}} by a combination of guerrilla warfare and their enemies being [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child|unwilling to murder the child soldiers they send out on the frontlines]].


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