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''Jacob Have I Loved'' is a 1981 UsefulNotes/NewberyMedal-winning novel by Creator/KatherinePaterson, author of ''Literature/BridgeToTerabithia''.
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''Jacob Have I Loved'' is a 1981 UsefulNotes/NewberyMedal-winning MediaNotes/NewberyMedal-winning novel by Creator/KatherinePaterson, author of ''Literature/BridgeToTerabithia''.
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* ParentChildTeam: Louise accompanies Truitt for one winter's oystering season on the ''Portia Sue'' and discovers his HiddenDepths, such as his own talent for singing.
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* RomanticFalseLead: Averted with Call and Louise. They have a relationship on par with siblings and when [[spoiler:Call says that Caroline accepted his marriage proposal]], Louise disapproves only because of [[spoiler:her concern that marriage would end Caroline’s dream of singing]]. When it’s assured that it wouldn’t be the case, she gives her blessing.
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* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Rass Island is fictional. Its climate, economy, and culture are very similar to that of real islands in the Chesapeake, most notably Tangier Island, VA, also a tight-knit crabbing community in danger of losing itself to the water.[[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/09/climate-change-rising-seas-tangier-island-chesapeake-book-talk/]]
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* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Rass Island is fictional. Its climate, economy, and culture are very similar to that of real islands in the Chesapeake, most notably Tangier Island, VA, also a tight-knit crabbing community in danger of losing itself to the water.[[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/09/climate-change-rising-seas-tangier-island-chesapeake-book-talk/]]com/environment/2018/09/climate-change-rising-seas-tangier-island-chesapeake-book-talk/ Tangier Island, VA, also a tight-knit crabbing community in danger of losing itself to the water.]]
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* DelicateAndSickly: Caroline, as an infant. She continues being delicate throughout the story, although she appears to have gotten over being sickly, but the islanders maintain that memory of her.
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* IllGirl: Caroline was often ill when younger (even at birth), which took away her parents' attention.
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* CoolBoat: Louise feels this way about her father's boat, the ''Portia Sue''.
* CoolOldGuy: The Captain.
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* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Louise feels this way about the outbreak of World War Two.
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* NotSoDifferent: The twins' grandmother was in love with the Captain when she was a girl yet still taunts Louise for her own crush on the Captain.
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* EvilOldFolks: Evil might be a stretch but the twins' grandmother is a short-tempered and resentful woman who uses the Bible to read passages out that taunt and cut down everyone, Louise in particular.
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* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: With booksmart, streetsmart Louise as the "smart" one, and pretty, talented Caroline as the "pretty" one.
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* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: With booksmart, streetsmart book smart, street smart Louise as the "smart" one, and pretty, talented Caroline as the "pretty" one.
* HolierThanThou: The Bible-thumping grandmother who is almost never seen without her Bible, the only book that she reads and constantly quotes the most cutting passages from.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Discussed: Louise develops a terrible crush on the Captain despite their 50-year-plus age gap.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Discussed: Louise develops a terrible crush on the Captain despite their 50-year-plus age gap. Her grandmother taunts her for it but it turns out ''she'' went through the same thing when she was younger and forever resents the Captain for refusing her.
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[[caption-width-right:249:"But where was I?" I once asked. "While everyone was working over Caroline, where was I?"]]
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[[caption-width-right:249:"But where was I?" I once asked. "While "When everyone was working over Caroline, where was I?"]]
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[[caption-width-right:249:"But where was I?" I once asked. "While everyone was working over Caroline, where was I?"]]
[[caption-width-right:249:"But where was I?" I once asked. "While everyone was working over Caroline, where was I?"]]
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** Averted with Caroline. Louise fears that [[spoiler:her marriage to Call]] will end her dreams of singing, but [[spoiler:Call assures her that he]] "wouldn't ever hold her back."
** Zig-zagged with Susan. Although she did give up on an earlier ambition to become an island housewife, she makes it clear that she chose this life willingly and has no regrets.
** Zig-zagged with Susan. Although she did give up on an earlier ambition to become an island housewife, she makes it clear that she chose this life willingly and has no regrets.
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* DeadGuyJunior: [[spoiler:Louise's father dies while she is pregnant with her first son. Both are named Truitt.]]
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* AStormIsComing: The men of the island can tell when a hurricane is about to blow in just by looking at the "[[RedSkyTakeWarning ominous rust-colored sunset]]." [[BigStormEpisode Chapter 10]] begins this way, leading to a [[HostileWeather severe storm]] that [[spoiler:spares Truitt's boat but destroys his crab house and dock, floods the Bradshaws' downstairs, and completely decimates the Captain's house.]]
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* AStormIsComing: The men of the island can tell when a hurricane is about to blow in just by looking at the smell of the air and the "[[RedSkyTakeWarning ominous rust-colored sunset]]." [[BigStormEpisode Chapter 10]] begins this way, leading to a [[HostileWeather severe storm]] that [[spoiler:spares Truitt's boat but destroys his crab house and dock, house, floods the Bradshaws' downstairs, and completely decimates the Captain's house.]]
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Louise and Caroline have a few such moments.
** Louise is proud of Caroline's talent deep down and is even angry when she gets a less showy solo than an inferior singer in the school concert.
** Caroline comforts Louise when she is upset about the Captain's plan to MercyKill Auntie Braxton's cats.
** Louise is proud of Caroline's talent deep down and is even angry when she gets a less showy solo than an inferior singer in the school concert.
** Caroline comforts Louise when she is upset about the Captain's plan to MercyKill Auntie Braxton's cats.
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* OppositesAttract: Truitt and Susan Bradshaw are HappilyMarried despite their radically different upbringings and interests.
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*** While it was merely hinted at in the novel, it's confirmed in the movie that the Captain and AuntieBraxton had a ChildhoodFriendRomance.
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*** While it was merely hinted at in the novel, it's confirmed in the movie that the Captain and AuntieBraxton Auntie Braxton had a ChildhoodFriendRomance.
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* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the 1989 TV movie adaptation, Caroline is transformed from InnocentlyInsensitive into more of a JerkAss.
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* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In AdaptationDeviation: Quite a few in the 1989 TV movie. Many scenes are compressed or removed entirely to keep the movie adaptation, to under an hour in length.
** AdaptationalBackstoryChange: The Captain had an early ambition to become a doctor, which inspires Louise to develop one of her own.
** AdaptationalContextChange: The screenplay has much more overtly Christian themes than the novel.
** AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Call leaves Rass much sooner in the movie, this time to take a job on a work boat.
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*** Caroline is transformed from InnocentlyInsensitive into more of aJerkAss.JerkAss.
*** Auntie Braxton is transformed from a CrazyCatLady into a kindly old woman who is never seen without her Bible in her hands.
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*** Mr. Rice is engaged to an unseen "lady from Baltimore" in the novel. In the movie, he is married to the local shopkeeper.
*** While it was merely hinted at in the novel, it's confirmed in the movie that the Captain and AuntieBraxton had a ChildhoodFriendRomance.
** AdaptationalBackstoryChange: The Captain had an early ambition to become a doctor, which inspires Louise to develop one of her own.
** AdaptationalContextChange: The screenplay has much more overtly Christian themes than the novel.
** AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Call leaves Rass much sooner in the movie, this time to take a job on a work boat.
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*** Auntie Braxton is transformed from a CrazyCatLady into a kindly old woman who is never seen without her Bible in her hands.
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*** Mr. Rice is engaged to an unseen "lady from Baltimore" in the novel. In the movie, he is married to the local shopkeeper.
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** Children on Rass traditionally address their mothers as "Momma."
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* {{Catchphrase}}: "Oh, my blessed!" is a typical island expression of worry, disappointment, or surprise.
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** "Oh, my blessed!" is a typical island expression of worry, disappointment, orsurprise.surprise.
** Louise and Caroline's grandmother has two: "I love the Lord" and "I hate the water."
** "Oh, my blessed!" is a typical island expression of worry, disappointment, or
** Louise and Caroline's grandmother has two: "I love the Lord" and "I hate the water."
