History Literature / IHadTroubleInGettingToSollaSollew

* AnAesop: Don't run away from your problems. Chances are, you'll just end up making them worse.

* MilesGloriosus: General Genghis Khan Schmitz and his soldiers. Once they learn that they face a pack of Poozers instead of one, retreating is understandable. Leaving their young conscript behind, less so.

* SavedToEnslave: The protagonist is saved by drowning by General Genghis Khan Schmitz who then conscripts him into his army to fight the Perilous Poozer of Pompelmoose Pass.

* AnAesop: Don't run away from your problems. Chances are, you’ll just end up making them worse.

* DarkerAndEdgier: This was the start of Seuss's more somber stories, although it's still fairly light. The ending is especially unusual: Instead of a happy ending in Solla Sollew like most children's books would have, the protagonist discovers that the door is locked and the doorman cannot unlock it because of a Key Slapping Slippard in the door. It even considers the possibility of ''killing'' the Slippard, noticeably averting NeverSayDie in the process. (Granted, that’s rejected, since it’s considered seriously bad luck.) At the end the hero concludes ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer and returns home to face his problems with a bat.

-->'''Wubble chap:''' This is called teamwork. I furnish the brains. / You furnish the muscles, the aches and the pains. / I'll pick the best roads, tell you just wear to go / And we'll find a good doctor more quickly, you know.

-->'''General Genghis Kahn Schmitz''': There's a war going on! And it's time that you knew / Every lad in this land has his duty to do.

* DarkerAndEdgier: This was the start of Seuss's more somber stories, although it's still fairly light. The ending is especially unusual: Instead of a happy ending in Solla Sollew like most children's books would have, the protagonist discovers that the door is locked and the doorman cannot unlock it because of a Key Slapping Slippard in the door. It even considers the possibility of ''killing'' the Slippard, noticeably averting NeverSayDie in the process. At the end the hero concludes ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer and returns home to face his problems with a bat.

* FeatheredFiend: The Quilligan Quail bites the hero from behind for no stated reason.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The Wubble driver is an unusual case. We see his "heart of gold" side first, when he invites the hero to join him on his journey. Only when the going gets tough do we learn that he isn't ''quite'' as selfless as he initially appeared because he is very bossy and work-shy (see BrainsAndBrawn above).

* BoringReturnJourney: The narrative jumps from outside Solla Sollew straight back to the Valley of Vung. [[WMG Maybe the Happy Way Bus was running again?]]

* BoringReturnJourney: The narrative jumps from outside Solla Sollew straight back to the Valley of Vung. [[FanWank Maybe the Happy Way Bus was running again?]]

-->Now my troubles are going / To have troubles with ME!

* DarkerAndEdgier: This was the start of Seuss's more somber stories, although it's still fairly light. The ending is especially unusual: Instead of a happy ending in Solla Sollew like most children's books would have, the protagonist discovers that the door is locked and the doorman cannot unlock it because of a Key Slapping Slippard in the door. It even considers the possibility of ''killing'' the Slippard, noticeably averting NeverSayDie in the process. And at the end the hero sort of concludes ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer, and returns home to face his problems with a bat.

* CitadelCity: Solla Sollew is one. Deconstructed, as it means that a single problem with the single door in and out is enough to turn the city on its head.

* CrapsackWorld: Solla Sollew will have to eventually descend into this, what with a Key-Slapping Slippard in the keyhole of their only door and there being superstition around killing the little bastard.

* DarkerAndEdgier: This was the start of Seuss's more somber stories, although it's still fairly light. The ending is especially unusual: Instead of a happy ending in Solla Sollew like most children's books would have, the protagonist discovers that the door is locked and the doorman cannot unlock it because of a Key Slapping Slippard in the door. It even considers the possibility of ''killing'' the Slippard, noticeably averting NeverSayDie in the process.

* ThePromisedLand[=/=]{{Utopia}}: Solla Sollew is supposed to be one. It gets deconstructed, and after that, Boola Boo Ball is said to be one, though it is implied that it probably isn't really one either.
* RhymingWithItself: A variation. At one point, "position" is rhymed with "physician".

* BoringReturnJourney: The narrative jumps from outside Solla Sollew straight back to the Valley of Vung. [[FankWank Maybe the Happy Way Bus was running again?]]

* BadassBoast: The closing lines. "Now my troubles are going/To have troubles with ME!"

* BoringReturnJourney: The narrative jumps from outside Solla Sollew straight back to the Valley of Vung. Maybe the Happy Way Bus was running again?

-->'''General Genghis Kahn Schmitz''':\\
There's a war going on! And it's time that you knew\\
Every lad in this land has his duty to do.

* BittersweetEnding: The protagonist still has troubles, the camel still has to spend at least twenty weeks in bed to recover from his illness, and Solla Sollew still has their problem with the Slippard, but at least the protagonist has a bat to fight off the pests, and the doorman is headed for a city without any troubles whatsoever.

%%* ActionSurvivor: The protagonist.

* BoringReturnJourney: The narrative jumps from Solla Sollew straight back to the Valley of Vung.

%%* FeatheredFiend: The Quilligan Quail.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The Wubble driver is an unusual case. We see his "heart of gold" side first, when he invites the hero to join him on his journey. Only when the going gets tough do we learn that he isn't ''quite'' as selfless as he initially appeared because he is very bossy (see BrainsAndBrawn above).

%%* MilesGloriosus: General Genghis Khan Schmitz and his soldiers.

* ActionSurvivor: The protagonist.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: At the beginning, the narrator trips over a rock and thinks he will stay out of trouble forever if he keeps looking forward. This doesn't stop a quail from biting his tail from behind, a mosquito from stinging his neck from above, or a gopher from biting his toe from below.
* FeatheredFiend: The Quilligan Quail.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The Wubble driver is an unusual case. We see his "heart of gold" side first, when he invites the hero to join him on his journey. Only when the going gets tough do we learn that he isn't ''quite'' as selfless as he initially appeared (see BrainsAndBrawn above).

* MilesGloriosus: General Genghis Khan Schmitz and his soldiers.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The story is ''full'' of people making decisions like this.

* AnAesop: Don't run away from your problems.

* RealityEnsues: At the beginning, the narrator trips over a rock and thinks he will stay out of trouble forever if he keeps looking forward. This doesn't stop a quail from biting his tail from behind, a mosquito from stinging his neck from above, or a gopher from biting his toe from below.