1 | ''The Diviners'' was a novel by Creator/MargaretLaurence, released in 1974. Not to be confused with the 2012 [[Literature/TheDiviners2012 novel of the same name]]. |
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5 | !!Some tropes appearing in the novel include: |
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7 | * AbusiveParents |
8 | * BraveScot : Piper Gunn, in the childhood tales Christie tells wee Morag. |
9 | * ChubbyMamaSkinnyPapa : Prin and Christie, respectively. |
10 | * DisappearedDad : [[spoiler: Jules]]. He only visits a few times throughout Pique's life, though he carries a picture of her. |
11 | * GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion : Both a subversion and a straight version of the trope. Morag's friend aborts her pregnancy with a coat hanger. Christie takes the fetus to the Nuisance Grounds, to be buried--and it's not the first time he's done it, in his job as the town garbage man. The friend grows up to marry a local farmer, but because she can't have children, is considered "ruined" by the procedure. The experience affects Morag so strongly she writes a similar scene in her first novel (StoryWithinAStory). The details of the character and the scene are not fleshed out, although the character is a [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold stripper]]. |
12 | * HookerWithAHeartOfGold : The StoryWithinAStory Morag writes has one of these, dismissed (using the exact words) by a critic as being cliché. |
13 | * MostWritersAreWriters : Morag becomes a freelance writer. Somewhat subverted, in that her life is realistically unglamourous, and she often has to take other jobs (cleaning lady, book store clerk) to pay the bills. |
14 | * OrphansOrdeal : Morag's parents die of some illness (probably scarlet fever) when she is only five and a friend of her father's takes her in. Not as rough as some examples of the trope, but a difficult childhood. |
15 | * PlotDeviceAllAlong : The kilt pin. The knife also appears in ''Literature/TheStoneAngel'', loosely tying the two novels together. |
16 | * SuicideIsPainless: [[spoiler: Jules Tonnere]], after he becomes ill with throat cancer. Doubly tragic, considering the author's later death. |
17 | * WarIsHell: Christie is a World War I veteran and suffers a vague sort of PTSD. That and his lack of education are the reason he doesn't have much ambition beyond the town garbage man. |
18 | * WellDoneDadGuy: Morag, to Christie, in the hospital. "Well, I'm blessed." |
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