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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Near the end of the novel, Smilla strips down and takes stock of the injuries she's acquired over the course of her investigation, and mentions in passing that she's chosen to keep her socks on. Later, [[spoiler:after she's been captured by the villains, it turns out she had her pass-key hidden in her sock so they wouldn't find it when they searched her]].
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* {{Determinator}}: Smilla's determination to find the truth behind Isaiah's death keeps her going despite all the obstacles thrown in her path, even after the authorities threaten to arrest her if she keeps poking about and the villains use more direct methods to warn her off and eventually straight-up try to kill her. Near the end of the novel, she muses that she may be clinging to her quest because it's the first time she's had such a clear sense of purpose, and wonders what will happen once the purpose if fulfulled; significantly, the novel ends without showing how she answers that question.
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* {{Determinator}}: Smilla's determination to find the truth behind Isaiah's death keeps her going despite all the obstacles thrown in her path, even after the authorities threaten to arrest her if she keeps poking about and the villains use more direct methods to warn her off and eventually straight-up try to kill her. Near the end of the novel, she muses that she may be clinging to her quest because it's the first time she's had such a clear sense of purpose, and wonders what will happen once the purpose if is fulfulled; significantly, the novel ends without showing how she answers that question.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Smilla thinks Birgo is a teenage boy until he clarifies that he’s actually 33 years old with three kids.
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''Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow'' (also known as ''Smilla's Sense of Snow'' in the US and as ''Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne'' in the original Danish) is a widely-acclaimed 1992 novel by Peter Høeg, which was also adapted into a film directed by Bille August in 1997.
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''Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow'' (also known as ''Smilla's Sense of Snow'' in the US and as ''Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne'' in the original Danish) is a widely-acclaimed 1992 novel by Peter Høeg, which was also adapted into a film directed by Bille August in 1997.
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** This structure is also echoes in several individual chapters, which begin with the most dramatic event in the chapter before filling in how Smilla got there from the end of the previous chapter.
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* ChekhovsGunman: A couple of people who are mentioned in passing during Smilla's description of Isaiah's funeral turn out to be involved in the conspiracy that resulted in his death.
* ChekhovsSkill: It's mentioned in passing, as part of an explanation about something else, that Peter Føjl did military service that included experience scuba diving in arctic conditions. This turns out to be very important after the action shifts to Greenland.
* ChekhovsSkill: It's mentioned in passing, as part of an explanation about something else, that Peter Føjl did military service that included experience scuba diving in arctic conditions. This turns out to be very important after the action shifts to Greenland.
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** The first section of the novel begins with Isaiah's funeral, backs up to tell the story of Isaiah's life, his death, and the beginning of Smilla's investigation, and ends when it reaches the day of the funeral.
** This structure is also echoes in several individual chapters, which begin with the most dramatic event in the chapter before filling in how Smilla got there from the end of the previous chapter.
* NoEnding: We last see Smilla pursuing the book's villain across the Greenlandic icecap, but the book abruptly ends before the FinalBattle usual in such stories can happen. The narration does point out that the villain is doomed, with the ice and the freezing water and the approaching blizzard poised to get him if Smilla doesn't, but deliberately refrains from giving tidy closure by saying which one gets him in the end. It also leaves several other important questions unanswered, including which theory about the MacGuffin is correct and what's in the future for Smilla's relationship with Peter.
** The first section of the novel begins with Isaiah's funeral, backs up to tell the story of Isaiah's life, his death, and the beginning of Smilla's investigation, and ends when it reaches the day of the funeral.
** This structure is also echoes in several individual chapters, which begin with the most dramatic event in the chapter before filling in how Smilla got there from the end of the previous chapter.
* NoEnding: We last see Smilla pursuing the book's villain across the Greenlandic icecap, but the book abruptly ends before the FinalBattle usual in such stories can happen. The narration does point out that the villain is doomed, with the ice and the freezing water and the approaching blizzard poised to get him if Smilla doesn't, but deliberately refrains from giving tidy closure by saying which one gets him in the end. It also leaves several other important questions unanswered, including which theory about the MacGuffin is correct and what's in the future for Smilla's relationship with Peter.
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* ShoutOut: During the discussion of the theories about the meteor, Tørk name-drops Creator/HGWells, Creator/JulesVerne's ''The Chase of the Golden Meteor'', and Creator/HBeamPiper's ''Literature/UllerUprising''.
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the character is still meant to be a Greenlander, which makes this a casting trivia that goes on the trivia page not in the main trope list
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* RaceLift: In the movie, Smilla is played by Julia Ormond, who definitely isn't Greenlandic.
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* UncannyValley: Many hints at Smilla being somehow off compared to people around her, but [[EasterEgg the subtlest of them all]] is in the title itself. ''Miss'' Smilla. The insistence on the fact she had never been married until the age of 37 and possibly she is not going to be, either.
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* NoNameGiven: Smilla mentions a brother, [[spoiler:who had committed suicide several years earlier]], but never by name.
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''Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow'', also Snow'' (also known as ''Smilla's Sense of Snow'' in the US and as ''Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne'' in the original Danish, Danish) is a widely-acclaimed 1992 novel by Peter Høeg, which was also adapted as a film directed by Bille August in 1997.
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'''''Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow''''', also known as '''''Smilla's Sense of Snow''''' in the US and as '''''Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne''''' in the original Danish, this widely acclaimed 1992 novel by Peter Høeg was also adapted as a film in 1997.
Smilla Qaaviqaaq Jaspersen is an highly introverted and bloody-minded half Greenlandic/half Danish woman living in Copenhagen. One of her few (possibly her only) friend is her neighbour's son Isaiah who is also Greenlandic. When he falls to his death from their apartment building she is suspicious. Isaiah suffered from vertigo and when she sees his tracks on the roof, her intuitive understanding of snow shows her that he was running for his life. Despite hostility from the authorities she begins to investigate, leading her back to Greenland and a far-reaching conspiracy.
Written in the first person, the novel deals with themes of alienation, post-colonialism and how people survive mentally in societies they find inimical.
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* CombatPragmatist: Smilla Jaspersen has a history of winning against people much bigger and stronger than her. She stabs a man in the neck with a screwdriver when her tries to kidnap her, and topples a shelf onto a person she thinks is following her in the filing room of an office building. She also forces her stepmother to listen to her demands by pinching her in the crotch and bending her pinky finger all the way back. Apparently she's been this way all her life. She beat up a racist school bully much larger than her by finding out where he lived and ambushing him early in the morning, sending him to the hospital. When her father, a noted surgeon, tried to grab her and drag her home after she ran away at the age of twelve, she cut him with a scalpel she stole from the hospital she escaped from. When she is trapped on a ship with the vaguely psychopathic character Jakkelsen, she makes a weapon from a towel and a ball bearing, and injures him badly enough that he needs medical attention. However, she is always described as a petite and delicate woman. She is the narrator, by the way.
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: Arguably used in this book, where a routine murder mystery trope dives off the deep-end into X-Files-esque killer bug from space about halfway through the novel.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Several occurances, like the towel+ball bearing, and the two plastic scalpels taped together to make a more durable weapon.
* RaceLift: In the movie, Smilla is played by Julia Ormond, who definitely isn't Greenlandic.
* WaifFu: Smilla is not what she seems.
* WalkOnWater: The title character has an almost psychic ability to read snow and ice. Thus she can walk on a half frozen sea because she can see which ice patches will support her weight and which won't. The onlookers are suitably impressed.
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Smilla Qaaviqaaq Jaspersen is an highly introverted and bloody-minded half Greenlandic/half Danish woman living in Copenhagen. One of her few (possibly her only) friend is her neighbour's son Isaiah who is also Greenlandic. When he falls to his death from their apartment building she is suspicious. Isaiah suffered from vertigo and when she sees his tracks on the roof, her intuitive understanding of snow shows her that he was running for his life. Despite hostility from the authorities she begins to investigate, leading her back to Greenland and a far-reaching conspiracy.
Written in the first person, the novel deals with themes of alienation, post-colonialism and how people survive mentally in societies they find inimical.
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!!''Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow'' provides examples of:
* CombatPragmatist: Smilla Jaspersen has a history of winning against people much bigger and stronger than her. She stabs a man in the neck with a screwdriver when her tries to kidnap her, and topples a shelf onto a person she thinks is following her in the filing room of an office building. She also forces her stepmother to listen to her demands by pinching her in the crotch and bending her pinky finger all the way back. Apparently she's been this way all her life. She beat up a racist school bully much larger than her by finding out where he lived and ambushing him early in the morning, sending him to the hospital. When her father, a noted surgeon, tried to grab her and drag her home after she ran away at the age of twelve, she cut him with a scalpel she stole from the hospital she escaped from. When she is trapped on a ship with the vaguely psychopathic character Jakkelsen, she makes a weapon from a towel and a ball bearing, and injures him badly enough that he needs medical attention. However, she is always described as a petite and delicate woman. She is the narrator, by the way.
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: Arguably used in this book, where a routine murder mystery trope dives off the deep-end into X-Files-esque killer bug from space about halfway through the novel.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Several occurances, like the towel+ball bearing, and the two plastic scalpels taped together to make a more durable weapon.
* RaceLift: In the movie, Smilla is played by Julia Ormond, who definitely isn't Greenlandic.
* WaifFu: Smilla is not what she seems.
* WalkOnWater: The title character has an almost psychic ability to read snow and ice. Thus she can walk on a half frozen sea because she can see which ice patches will support her weight and which won't. The onlookers are suitably impressed.
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