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* {{Asexuality}}: Maurice doesn't care much for sex or a relationship.
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''A Ladder to the Sky'' is a 2018 novel by John Boyne. It follows Maurice, a psychopathic writer who will stop at nothing to get his books published. The novel told from multiple points of view from his victims' to his own.

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''A Ladder to the Sky'' is a 2018 novel by John Boyne. It follows Maurice, a psychopathic writer who will stop at nothing to get his books published. The novel story is told from multiple points of view from his victims' to his own.
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* MaleGaze: Maurice's charming looks attracts the attention of several gay men. He uses this to his advantage.

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* MaleGaze: Maurice's charming looks attracts attract the attention of several gay men. He uses this to his advantage.
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''A Ladder to the Sky'' is a 2018 novel by John Boyne. It follows Maurice, a psychopathic writer who will stop at nothing to get his books, and is told from multiple points of view.

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''A Ladder to the Sky'' is a 2018 novel by John Boyne. It follows Maurice, a psychopathic writer who will stop at nothing to get his books, and is books published. The novel told from multiple points of view.
view from his victims' to his own.
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* PosthumousNarration: The first part is narrated by Erich Ackermann, who later commits suicide. The third part is narrated by Maurice's late wife Edith.

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* PosthumousNarration: The first part is narrated by Erich Ackermann, who later commits suicide. The third part is narrated by Maurice's late wife Edith.Edith.
* StaircaseTumble: Edith falls down the staircase that Maurice keeps putting off fixing. He later [[spoiler: kills her by pushing her down the stairs]].
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* FrameUp: After he refuses to let her and their kids move, Rebecca frames her ex-husband Robert by [[spoiler: planting child pornography]] on his computer. He gets sentenced to five years in prison]] as a result.

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* FrameUp: After he refuses to let her and their kids move, Rebecca frames her ex-husband Robert by [[spoiler: planting child pornography]] pornography on his computer. He gets sentenced to five years in prison]] as a result.

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* AlphaBitch: Rebecca is unfriendly to her sister Edith and later [[spoiler: frames her ex-husband Robert]].



* DepravedHomosexual: Erich Ackermann. He becomes so jealous when his straight friend Oskar rejects his advances that he outs his girlfriend's family to the Nazis, resulting in her family and Oskar getting killed. Maurice later uses his Erich's neediness to take advantage of him.

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* DepravedHomosexual: Erich Ackermann. He becomes so In a jealous fit of rage when his straight friend Oskar rejects his advances that advances, he outs his girlfriend's Oskar's half-Jewish girlfriend Alysse's family to the Nazis, resulting in her family and Oskar getting killed. Maurice later uses his Erich's neediness to take advantage of him.him.
* FrameUp: After he refuses to let her and their kids move, Rebecca frames her ex-husband Robert by [[spoiler: planting child pornography]] on his computer. He gets sentenced to five years in prison]] as a result.


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* HeKnowsTooMuch: Maurice [[spoiler: kills his own son Daniel after he finds out his secrets]].
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* {{Asexuality}}: Maurice doesn't care much for sex or a relationship.



* GildedCage: Maurice is [[spoiler: sentenced to life for the murders he committed]] but doesn't consider prison life to be bad at all.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Maurice tells his son Daniel that stealing is bad... all while plagiarizing other people's works.



* MrFanservice: Maurice is described as a very attractive man in his youth.

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* MrFanservice: Maurice is described as a very attractive man in his youth.youth.
* PosthumousNarration: The first part is narrated by Erich Ackermann, who later commits suicide. The third part is narrated by Maurice's late wife Edith.

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* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Maurice isn't good at writing original stories and bases his novels on other people's works and experiences.
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''A Ladder to the Sky'' is a 2018 novel by John Boyne. It follows Maurice, a psychopathic writer who will stop at nothing to get his books, and is told from multiple points of view.

!!''A Ladder to the Sky'' provides examples of:

* DepravedHomosexual: Erich Ackermann. He becomes so jealous when his straight friend Oskar rejects his advances that he outs his girlfriend's family to the Nazis, resulting in her family and Oskar getting killed. Maurice later uses his Erich's neediness to take advantage of him.
* MaleGaze: Maurice's charming looks attracts the attention of several gay men. He uses this to his advantage.
* MetaFiction: It's a novel about writing novels.
* MrFanservice: Maurice is described as a very attractive man in his youth.

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