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* VileVillainSaccharineShow: The character of [[AbusiveParent Will's mother]] feels as though she belongs in some form of dark tragedy/drama, rather than this mostly warm-hearted children's story. She's a deranged [[TheFundamentalist Christian fundamentalist]] who frequently beats and abuses Will to the point that he's barely functional and severely traumatised when Tom first meets him, then [[spoiler:[[ClosetPunishment locks him in a cupboard with his infant sister to starve]] when he returns to London, [[DrivenToSuicide killing herself]] not too long after that.]] Yeesh.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When one of Mrs Beech's neighbours is asked where she went, the lady states she said she was "going to the coast. A few chapters later, it is revealed she [[spoiler: committed suicide.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When one of Mrs Beech's neighbours is asked where she went, the lady states she said she was "going to the coast. " A few chapters later, it is revealed she [[spoiler: committed suicide.]]
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* CantHoldHisLiquor: In the original novel, in Salmouth, Will, Tom and Zach consume a gallon of locally-brewed cider and, not realising quite how strong it is, end up sitting around for the rest of the evening drunkenly teasing each other. The page-long passage is frequently cut from juvenile editions.
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* CantHoldHisLiquor: In the original novel, in Salmouth, Will, Tom and Zach consume a gallon of locally-brewed cider and, not realising quite how strong it is, end up sitting around for the rest of the evening drunkenly teasing each other. The page-long passage is frequently cut from juvenile editions. mainly because leaving it in would depict and otherwise glorify The drinking of alcohol while under age, which would totally send the wrong message.
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* TheFundamentalist: Will's mother threatens him with {{Hell}} for even the slightest offence, and sees alcohol and sex as inherently sinful.
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* TheFundamentalist: Will's mother threatens him with {{Hell}} read him the riot act for even the slightest offence, perceived offence even when she’s in the wrong, and sees alcohol and sex as inherently sinful.
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* AssholeVictim: Even though it was suicide, none of us felt a need to shed a tear or pity Will's horrible excuse of a mother.
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* AssholeVictim: Even though it was suicide, none of us felt a need to shed a tear or pity Will's horrible messed up excuse of a mother.
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** The Second World War seems to impact on peoples' lives only slightly in Little Weirwold. The farming community gets on with life as though their workload hadn't just tripled, and people regularly consume things such as bacon and eggs, fresh lemonade, butter, roast chicken, cocoa, chocolate and cake that would have been rare treats during rationing. However, somewhat justified especially in the beginning of the book before William went back to his mother, suring the first 6 months of the war. Rationing was introduced in January 1940, 4 months after William arrived. His brithday party was only a week after war began, so it's affects on the avalbility of food would not have been felt yet. Little Weirwold is also rural, and therefore would have greater access to many rationed goods like butter, meat, and eggs.
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** The Second World War seems to impact on peoples' lives only slightly in Little Weirwold. The farming community gets on with life as though their workload hadn't just tripled, and people regularly consume things such as bacon and eggs, fresh lemonade, butter, roast chicken, cocoa, chocolate and cake that would have been rare treats during rationing. However, somewhat justified especially in the beginning of the book before William went back to his mother, suring during the first 6 months of the war. Rationing was introduced in January 1940, 4 months after William arrived. His brithday party was only a week after war began, so it's affects on the avalbility avalibility of food would not have been felt yet. Little Weirwold is also rural, and therefore would have greater access to many rationed goods like butter, meat, and eggs.
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** The Second World War seems to impact on peoples' lives only slightly in Little Weirwold. The farming community gets on with life as though their workload hadn't just tripled, and people regularly consume things such as bacon and eggs, fresh lemonade, butter, roast chicken, cocoa, chocolate and cake that would have been rare treats during rationing. However, somewhat justified especially in the beginning as the book takes place in the first 6 months of the war. Rationing was introduced in January 1940, 4 months after William arrived. His brithday party was only a week after war began, so it's affects on the avalbility of food would not have been felt yet. Little Weirwold is also rural, and therefore would have greater access to many rationed goods like butter, meat, and eggs.
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** The Second World War seems to impact on peoples' lives only slightly in Little Weirwold. The farming community gets on with life as though their workload hadn't just tripled, and people regularly consume things such as bacon and eggs, fresh lemonade, butter, roast chicken, cocoa, chocolate and cake that would have been rare treats during rationing. However, somewhat justified especially in the beginning as of the book takes place in before William went back to his mother, suring the first 6 months of the war. Rationing was introduced in January 1940, 4 months after William arrived. His brithday party was only a week after war began, so it's affects on the avalbility of food would not have been felt yet. Little Weirwold is also rural, and therefore would have greater access to many rationed goods like butter, meat, and eggs.
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** The Second World War seems to impact on peoples' lives only slightly in Little Weirwold. The farming community gets on with life as though their workload hadn't just tripled, and people regularly consume things such as bacon and eggs, fresh lemonade, butter, roast chicken, cocoa, chocolate and cake that would have been rare treats during rationing.
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** The Second World War seems to impact on peoples' lives only slightly in Little Weirwold. The farming community gets on with life as though their workload hadn't just tripled, and people regularly consume things such as bacon and eggs, fresh lemonade, butter, roast chicken, cocoa, chocolate and cake that would have been rare treats during rationing. However, somewhat justified especially in the beginning as the book takes place in the first 6 months of the war. Rationing was introduced in January 1940, 4 months after William arrived. His brithday party was only a week after war began, so it's affects on the avalbility of food would not have been felt yet. Little Weirwold is also rural, and therefore would have greater access to many rationed goods like butter, meat, and eggs.
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A book by Michelle Magorian, set in the village of Little Weirwold in Britain, during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
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A book by Michelle Magorian, set in the [[IdyllicEnglishVillage village of Little Weirwold Weirwold]] in Britain, during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
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* IdyllicEnglishVillage: The story largely takes place in the [[UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry West Country]] village of Little Weirwold,
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* DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler: Poor Zach. Not, as one might have thought, [[BigFriendlyDog Sammy]].]]
* DeathOfAChild: Tom's baby son William [[spoiler:and Will's baby sister.]]
* DeathOfAChild: Tom's baby son William [[spoiler:and Will's baby sister.]]
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* DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler: Poor Zach.Zach, who died in a bombing. Not, as one might have thought, [[BigFriendlyDog Sammy]].]]
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* FishOutOfWater: Both Tom in London, and William in Little Weirwold.
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* YouAreWhatYouHate: One possible interpretation of one of Will's mother's neighbours mentioning a lot of banging sounds at night as if the furniture were being moved around is that Will's mother is a prostitute. Her fanatic hatred of sex could be a result of this.
** Almost certainly. Will's mother's neighbour also mentions that Mrs Beech takes in lodgers, who have her bedroom and she sleeps downstairs - "or, that's what she says". It's also how she would have [[spoiler:fell pregnant with Trudy]].
** Almost certainly. Will's mother's neighbour also mentions that Mrs Beech takes in lodgers, who have her bedroom and she sleeps downstairs - "or, that's what she says". It's also how she would have [[spoiler:fell pregnant with Trudy]].
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* YouAreWhatYouHate: One possible interpretation of one of Will's mother's neighbours mentioning a lot of banging sounds at night as if the furniture were being moved around is that Will's mother is a prostitute. Her fanatic hatred of sex could be a result of this.
** Almost certainly.this. Will's mother's neighbour also mentions that Mrs Beech takes in lodgers, who have her bedroom bedroom, and she sleeps downstairs - "or, that's what she says". It's also how she would have [[spoiler:fell [[spoiler:fallen pregnant with Trudy]].
** Almost certainly.
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* IWantMyMommy: Inverted. [[spoiler: When William's locked up in the coal cellar by his mother, [[TearJerker he screams for Tom]].]]
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the FilmOfTheBook, Tom directly confronts people who trouble him or William on a regular basis; the book's Tom is grumpy, but patient in getting his way.
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* FilmOfTheBook: A TV movie was made in 1998 and was fairly loyal to the book while missing out a lot of the emotion which made it great.
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* FilmOfTheBook: A TV movie was made in 1998 and was fairly loyal to the book while missing out a lot of the emotion which made it great. [[AdaptationDistillation Huge amounts were cut for time]], as the exploratory, almost dreamlike pace of the book wouldn't translate well to film.
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* TheAce: When William gets an opportunity to reveal his talents, he turns out to be highly intelligent with an excellent memory, a magnificent artist, a good writer, a skilled method-actor, a connoisseur, a natural caregiver, physically strong and robust, and endowed with good social skills.
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* MistakenAge: Owing to his deprivation at the start of the story, William, who's nearly nine, resembles a five- or six-year-old to a ''doctor''.
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* BritishAccents: Eye dialect is extensively used to flavour the text. the Little Weirwold folk speak with West Country accents, William's mother speaks with a cockney accent (as does William in the start of the book, developing a distinct idiolect as the book progresses) and Zach speaks with a "posh B.B.C. accent".
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* BritishAccents: UsefulNotes/BritishAccents: Eye dialect is extensively used to flavour the text. the Little Weirwold folk speak with West Country accents, William's mother speaks with a cockney accent (as does William in the start of the book, developing a distinct idiolect as the book progresses) and Zach speaks with a "posh B.B.C. accent".
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* BritishAccents: Eye dialect is extensively used to flavour the text. the Little Weirwold folk speak with West Country accents, William's mother speaks with a cockney accent (as does William in the start of the book, developing a distinct idiolect as the book progresses) and Zach speaks with a "posh B.B.C. accent".
** True to life, the various British accents in this period are distinct enough that they can be difficult to mutually understand. William chats awkwardly with a Scottish Highlander whose accent is deliberately made difficult to read, and Tom pronounces William's home borough of "Deptford" as "Deppeteforrard" - in London pronunciation, which Tom then copies, it's "Detferd".
** True to life, the various British accents in this period are distinct enough that they can be difficult to mutually understand. William chats awkwardly with a Scottish Highlander whose accent is deliberately made difficult to read, and Tom pronounces William's home borough of "Deptford" as "Deppeteforrard" - in London pronunciation, which Tom then copies, it's "Detferd".