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It is the most standard work used for UsefulNotes/SchoolStudyMedia in the Netherlands. Virtually ''every'' student in higher education is forced to read it at some point. It has also had a theatrical film adaptation in 1993, titled ''Going Home''. The entire film is up for watching [[http://www.uitzendinggemist.nl/afleveringen/1113521 here]].
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It is the most standard work used for UsefulNotes/SchoolStudyMedia MediaNotes/SchoolStudyMedia in the Netherlands. Virtually ''every'' student in higher education is forced to read it at some point. It has also had a theatrical film adaptation in 1993, titled ''Going Home''. The entire film is up for watching [[http://www.uitzendinggemist.nl/afleveringen/1113521 here]].
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-->'''Johan:''' Listen--
-->'''Oeroeg:''' [[ShutUpKirk Leave. You have no business here]].
-->'''Oeroeg:''' Go away. Or I'll shoot.
-->'''Johan:''' Listen--
-->'''Oeroeg:''' [[ShutUpKirk Leave. You have no business here]].
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-->'''Oeroeg:'''Oeroeg.\\
'''Oeroeg:''' Go away. Or I'llshoot.
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'''Johan:''' Listen--\\
'''Oeroeg:''' [[ShutUpKirk Leave. You have no business here]].
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'''Oeroeg:''' Go away. Or I'll
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'''Oeroeg:''' [[ShutUpKirk Leave. You have no business here]].
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Subverted, actually. Oeroeg's and Johan's mothers are both relatively fair-looking women, but Oeroeg's mom soon starts to look old and weary (having to take care of eight children by herself) while Johan's mother stays pretty. But in contrast, Johan's mother [[spoiler:strikes up an affair with Johan's personal teacher, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere divorces his father and takes off to Holland, leaving her son behind without remorse]]]].
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* FaceHeelTurn: In some ways, [[spoiler:Oeroeg]]. He did develop a very hostile attitude against his former friend, while the latter had been nothing but good to him at this point. In fact, Johan treated Oeroeg as his absolute equal.
* ForbiddenFriendship: Eventually. While Johan's family never outright forbids him from hanging out with Indonesian kids, his dad at one point gets really mad that he is so focused on Oeroeg and asks him why he can't play with white kids.
* ForbiddenFriendship: Eventually. While Johan's family never outright forbids him from hanging out with Indonesian kids, his dad at one point gets really mad that he is so focused on Oeroeg and asks him why he can't play with white kids.
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* IChooseToStay: An interesting case. The main character calls Indonesia his home, despite his white heritage, because he grew up with Indonesian kids and speaks Indonesian languages. In the end, he does go to study in the Netherlands, and he becomes horribly confused when he returns to Indonesia and is told off by Oeroeg - who shouts to him that he "doesn't belong here".
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* IChooseToStay: An interesting case. The main character calls grew up in Indonesia and considers it his home, despite his white heritage, because he grew up with Indonesian kids and speaks Indonesian languages. In the end, he home. He does go to study in the Netherlands, where his parents are from, for some time and he becomes horribly confused when he returns to Indonesia and is told off by Oeroeg - who shouts to him that he "doesn't belong here".here" by someone who may or may not be Oeroeg.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Oeroeg manages to exploit Lida's slight white guilt into [[GoingNative giving up her Dutch identity and becoming an Indonesian.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: Johan's mother strikes up an affair with Johan's personal teacher, divorces his father and takes off to Holland, leaving her son behind without remorse.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: When Johan returns to Indonesia as an adult after spending years in Holland, he comes employed as a police officer and assists against Indonesian protestors who want their country back. He then meets a guy he thinks is Oeroeg at a lake near his former house.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: When Johan returns to Indonesia as an adult after spending years in Holland, the Netherlands, he comes employed as a police officer and assists against Indonesian protestors who want their country back. He then meets a guy he thinks is Oeroeg at a lake near his former house.
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It is the most standard work used for SchoolStudyMedia UsefulNotes/SchoolStudyMedia in the Netherlands. Virtually ''every'' student in higher education is forced to read it at some point. It has also had a theatrical film adaptation in 1993, titled ''Going Home''. The entire film is up for watching [[http://www.uitzendinggemist.nl/afleveringen/1113521 here]].
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* BlackBestFriend: While Oeroeg and Johan are on equal terms to ''each other'', to their respective communities it comes off as this, and they are mocked for it, too - Oeroeg espcially, who is forced to change schools.
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* TokenBlackFriend: While Oeroeg and Johan are on equal terms to ''each other'', to their respective communities it comes off as this, and they are mocked for it, too - Oeroeg espcially, who is forced to change schools.
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* BreakTheCutie: Johan in the end.
* ByronicHero: Oeroeg could count.
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* HiredHelpAsFamily: The book is about the friendship between the child of a wealthy Dutch family in Indonesia and the son of two of their indigenous servants. Their relationship grows increasingly strained throughout the book due to the political situation in Indonesia.
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* MagicalNegro: Oeroeg is one to Johan, very much so, to the point where he finds it hard (as a kid) to imagine his friend "in the real world".
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Unlike in the book, both the boys' fathers.]]
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* TheObiWan: Gerard, the caretaker and huntsman, who teaches the boys a lot when they're kids.
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->''"Am I a stranger to the land of my birth forever, off the ground I never want to move?"''
-->-- '''The main character'''
''Oeroeg'' is a 1948 novel by Dutch author Hella Haasse, set during the era in which Indonesia was colonised by the Netherlands. The book studies the friendship between the son of Dutch colonists, named "Johan" in the film adaptation but remaining nameless in the book, and an Indonesian boy, Oeroeg.
It is the most standard work used for SchoolStudyMedia in the Netherlands. Virtually ''every'' student in higher education is forced to read it at some point. It has also had a theatrical film adaptation in 1993, titled ''Going Home''. The entire film is up for watching [[http://www.uitzendinggemist.nl/afleveringen/1113521 here]].
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!!This novel contains examples of:
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Subverted, actually. Oeroeg's and Johan's mothers are both relatively fair-looking women, but Oeroeg's mom soon starts to look old and weary (having to take care of eight children by herself) while Johan's mother stays pretty. But in contrast, Johan's mother [[spoiler:strikes up an affair with Johan's personal teacher, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere divorces his father and takes off to Holland, leaving her son behind without remorse]]]].
* BlackBestFriend: While Oeroeg and Johan are on equal terms to ''each other'', to their respective communities it comes off as this, and they are mocked for it, too - Oeroeg espcially, who is forced to change schools.
* BreakTheCutie: Johan in the end.
* ByronicHero: Oeroeg could count.
* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:Oeroeg's father dies.]] His mother soon can't take care of herself anymore after it happens.
* [[spoiler:DownerEnding]]: [[spoiler:Oeroeg and Johan meet again after several years, as hostile enemies during Indonesian protests. Johan tries to reconcile, but Oeroeg tells him to go since he does not belong in Indonesia.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: In some ways, [[spoiler:Oeroeg]]. He did develop a very hostile attitude against his former friend, while the latter had been nothing but good to him at this point. In fact, Johan treated Oeroeg as his absolute equal.
* ForbiddenFriendship: Eventually. While Johan's family never outright forbids him from hanging out with Indonesian kids, his dad at one point gets really mad that he is so focused on Oeroeg and asks him why he can't play with white kids.
* GeniusBruiser: Oeroeg. He gets through a lot of schooling and good education, completely against Johan's family's expectations.
* HeelRealization: Oeroeg tries to induce one on Johan by introducing him to the WhiteMansBurden. It doesn't work. [[spoiler:He succesfully converts Lida, though, who learns to speak Indonesian and starts working at a local hospital as a nurse, giving up her lavish home and white luxury]].
* IChooseToStay: An interesting case. The main character calls Indonesia his home, despite his white heritage, because he grew up with Indonesian kids and speaks Indonesian languages. In the end, he does go to study in the Netherlands, and he becomes horribly confused when he returns to Indonesia and is told off by Oeroeg - who shouts to him that he "doesn't belong here".
* MagicalNegro: Oeroeg is one to Johan, very much so, to the point where he finds it hard (as a kid) to imagine his friend "in the real world".
* ManipulativeBastard: Oeroeg manages to exploit Lida's slight white guilt into [[GoingNative giving up her Dutch identity and becoming an Indonesian.]]
* TheObiWan: Gerard, the caretaker and huntsman, who teaches the boys a lot when they're kids.
* ARealManIsAKiller: What Johan's dad tries to force upon him.
* TheRival: The boys to eachother later on.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Both Oeroeg and Johan.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: When Johan returns to Indonesia as an adult after spending years in Holland, he comes employed as a police officer and assists against Indonesian protestors who want their country back. He then meets a guy he thinks is Oeroeg at a lake near his former house.
-->'''Johan:''' Oeroeg.
-->'''Oeroeg:''' Go away. Or I'll shoot.
-->'''Johan:''' Listen--
-->'''Oeroeg:''' [[ShutUpKirk Leave. You have no business here]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: So Johan leaves his father because his bitchy new wife sends Johan away--and his parents are never mentioned again from that point on.
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Johan truly fears that Oeroeg blames him for the death of Oeroeg's father, who drowned trying to save Johan after the latter fell into a lake in the middle of the night. In the end, though, Oeroeg does end up hating Johan, but only because of Oeroeg's hatred of colonialism and Europeans. It had nothing to do with his dad.]]
!!The film adaptation contains examples of:
* AdaptationExpansion: Johan's in the military in the film and spends a good deal of the film being in an actual war instead of just fondly remembering his childhood and teenage years.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Johan's father is killed by Indonesian rebels.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Unlike in the book, both the boys' fathers.]]
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-->-- '''The main character'''
''Oeroeg'' is a 1948 novel by Dutch author Hella Haasse, set during the era in which Indonesia was colonised by the Netherlands. The book studies the friendship between the son of Dutch colonists, named "Johan" in the film adaptation but remaining nameless in the book, and an Indonesian boy, Oeroeg.
It is the most standard work used for SchoolStudyMedia in the Netherlands. Virtually ''every'' student in higher education is forced to read it at some point. It has also had a theatrical film adaptation in 1993, titled ''Going Home''. The entire film is up for watching [[http://www.uitzendinggemist.nl/afleveringen/1113521 here]].
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!!This novel contains examples of:
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Subverted, actually. Oeroeg's and Johan's mothers are both relatively fair-looking women, but Oeroeg's mom soon starts to look old and weary (having to take care of eight children by herself) while Johan's mother stays pretty. But in contrast, Johan's mother [[spoiler:strikes up an affair with Johan's personal teacher, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere divorces his father and takes off to Holland, leaving her son behind without remorse]]]].
* BlackBestFriend: While Oeroeg and Johan are on equal terms to ''each other'', to their respective communities it comes off as this, and they are mocked for it, too - Oeroeg espcially, who is forced to change schools.
* BreakTheCutie: Johan in the end.
* ByronicHero: Oeroeg could count.
* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:Oeroeg's father dies.]] His mother soon can't take care of herself anymore after it happens.
* [[spoiler:DownerEnding]]: [[spoiler:Oeroeg and Johan meet again after several years, as hostile enemies during Indonesian protests. Johan tries to reconcile, but Oeroeg tells him to go since he does not belong in Indonesia.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: In some ways, [[spoiler:Oeroeg]]. He did develop a very hostile attitude against his former friend, while the latter had been nothing but good to him at this point. In fact, Johan treated Oeroeg as his absolute equal.
* ForbiddenFriendship: Eventually. While Johan's family never outright forbids him from hanging out with Indonesian kids, his dad at one point gets really mad that he is so focused on Oeroeg and asks him why he can't play with white kids.
* GeniusBruiser: Oeroeg. He gets through a lot of schooling and good education, completely against Johan's family's expectations.
* HeelRealization: Oeroeg tries to induce one on Johan by introducing him to the WhiteMansBurden. It doesn't work. [[spoiler:He succesfully converts Lida, though, who learns to speak Indonesian and starts working at a local hospital as a nurse, giving up her lavish home and white luxury]].
* IChooseToStay: An interesting case. The main character calls Indonesia his home, despite his white heritage, because he grew up with Indonesian kids and speaks Indonesian languages. In the end, he does go to study in the Netherlands, and he becomes horribly confused when he returns to Indonesia and is told off by Oeroeg - who shouts to him that he "doesn't belong here".
* MagicalNegro: Oeroeg is one to Johan, very much so, to the point where he finds it hard (as a kid) to imagine his friend "in the real world".
* ManipulativeBastard: Oeroeg manages to exploit Lida's slight white guilt into [[GoingNative giving up her Dutch identity and becoming an Indonesian.]]
* TheObiWan: Gerard, the caretaker and huntsman, who teaches the boys a lot when they're kids.
* ARealManIsAKiller: What Johan's dad tries to force upon him.
* TheRival: The boys to eachother later on.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Both Oeroeg and Johan.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: When Johan returns to Indonesia as an adult after spending years in Holland, he comes employed as a police officer and assists against Indonesian protestors who want their country back. He then meets a guy he thinks is Oeroeg at a lake near his former house.
-->'''Johan:''' Oeroeg.
-->'''Oeroeg:''' Go away. Or I'll shoot.
-->'''Johan:''' Listen--
-->'''Oeroeg:''' [[ShutUpKirk Leave. You have no business here]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: So Johan leaves his father because his bitchy new wife sends Johan away--and his parents are never mentioned again from that point on.
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Johan truly fears that Oeroeg blames him for the death of Oeroeg's father, who drowned trying to save Johan after the latter fell into a lake in the middle of the night. In the end, though, Oeroeg does end up hating Johan, but only because of Oeroeg's hatred of colonialism and Europeans. It had nothing to do with his dad.]]
!!The film adaptation contains examples of:
* AdaptationExpansion: Johan's in the military in the film and spends a good deal of the film being in an actual war instead of just fondly remembering his childhood and teenage years.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Johan's father is killed by Indonesian rebels.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Unlike in the book, both the boys' fathers.]]
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