Bag of Bones: Difference between revisions

* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Though Mike describes himself as more-or-less normal, Mattie is very beautiful. Max Devore and Rogette Whitmore, the villains, are both the scary-looking variety of old people.

* [[Big Bad]]: Max Devore.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Mike not only loses his wife at the outset, he also loses Mattie to an act of post-mortem revenge, the stupid brutality of which turns him off writing (though, ''Lisey's Story'' implies that he later changes his mind about that). All he has left in the world is Kyra, and at the end of the story, Mike is equally optimistic and frustrated about the process which will allow him to adopt her.}}

* [[The Cameo]]: Ralph Roberts and Norris Ridgewick. A few other King characters are mentioned in passing.

* [[Distressed Damsel]]: Mattie Devore all over the place.

* [[The Dragon]]: Rogette Whitmore is one of the more unlikely examples in literature.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: The fate of most of Jared Devore's accomplices, though not Jared himself.

* [[Erotic Dream]]: Mike has an explosive and disturbing three-way orgy with Jo, Mattie and Sara Tidwell in one of his dreams.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Devore = devour.

* [[My Death Is Just the Beginning]]: Max Devore, unfortunately for everyone on Mattie's house.

* [[Offing the Offspring]]: How {{spoiler|Sara}} punishes the men who murdered her and her son.

* [[Self-Deprecation]]: As with his other writer-characters, King uses Noonan to occasionally mock the habits and pretensions of writers.

* [[Trapped in Another World]]: Michael fears that if he and Kyra can't make it out of their shared dream of the 1901 Fryeburg Fair, they'll be trapped in it forever. He even speculates about what he'd do for a living if it happened.

* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|Sara Tidwell}}.