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* DirectLineToTheAuthor: The story of the Borrowers is presented as something told to the author when she was a child (she gives her younger self the name "Kate," to distance herself from the [[TakeThatMe "wild, untidy, self-willed little girl who stared with angry eyes and was said to crunch her teeth"]] she apparently was back then), and which she wrote down for her own children when she was an adult. This is most clear in the first three books, where the FramingDevice is the story of how "Kate" meets and talks to old people who either met or were told of the Borrowers in their youths. The latter books (and almost all the adaptations) drop this device, but still include people who could conceivably have talked to "Kate" many years later and told her the story.
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* DirectLineToTheAuthor: The story of the Borrowers is presented as something told to the author when she was a child (she gives her younger self the name "Kate," to distance herself from the [[TakeThatMe [[SelfDeprecation "wild, untidy, self-willed little girl who stared with angry eyes and was said to crunch her teeth"]] she apparently was back then), and which she wrote down for her own children when she was an adult. This is most clear in the first three books, where the FramingDevice is the story of how "Kate" meets and talks to old people who either met or were told of the Borrowers in their youths. The latter books (and almost all the adaptations) drop this device, but still include people who could conceivably have talked to "Kate" many years later and told her the story.
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* BorrowedWithoutPermission: The titular characters get their name from their insistence that they're borrowing when they take things from humans. Of course, they consider it stealing if a Borrower takes from another Borrower.
--> The boy sat thoughtfully on his haunches, chewing a blade of grass. "Borrowing," he said after a while. "Is that what you call it?"
--> "What else could you call it?" Asked Arrietty.
--> "I'd call it stealing."
--> Arrietty laughed. She really laughed. "But we are Borrowers," she explained, "like you're a-a human bean or whatever it's called. We're part of the house. You might as well say that the fire grate steals the coal from the coal scuttle."
--> "Then what is stealing?"
--> Arrietty looked grave. "Don't you know?" she asked. "Stealing is-well, supposing my Uncle Hendreary borrowed an emerald watch from Her dressing table and my father took it and hung it up on our wall. That's stealing."
--> "An emerald watch!" exclaimed the boy.
--> "Well, I just said that because we have one on the wall at home, but my father borrowed it himself. It needn't be a watch. It could be anything. A lump of sugar even. But Borrowers don't steal."
--> The boy sat thoughtfully on his haunches, chewing a blade of grass. "Borrowing," he said after a while. "Is that what you call it?"
--> "What else could you call it?" Asked Arrietty.
--> "I'd call it stealing."
--> Arrietty laughed. She really laughed. "But we are Borrowers," she explained, "like you're a-a human bean or whatever it's called. We're part of the house. You might as well say that the fire grate steals the coal from the coal scuttle."
--> "Then what is stealing?"
--> Arrietty looked grave. "Don't you know?" she asked. "Stealing is-well, supposing my Uncle Hendreary borrowed an emerald watch from Her dressing table and my father took it and hung it up on our wall. That's stealing."
--> "An emerald watch!" exclaimed the boy.
--> "Well, I just said that because we have one on the wall at home, but my father borrowed it himself. It needn't be a watch. It could be anything. A lump of sugar even. But Borrowers don't steal."
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* DelicateAndSickly: The human boy is in the house because he is recovering from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheumatic_fever rheumatic fever]], which even to this day is considered a dangerous and chronic disease.
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* IllBoy: The human boy is in the house because he is recovering from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheumatic_fever rheumatic fever]], which even to this day is considered a dangerous and chronic disease.
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* NobodyPoops: There's never any mention of the Borrowers having toilets or even chamber pots. In a series where every aspect of the Borrowers' makeshift lives are described in exquisite detail, including how they take baths and how the need for access to water dominates their choice of living quarters, the omission eventually becomes significant.
