It's All Junk: Difference between revisions

Compare the [[Trans-Redemptive Symbol]]. Contrast with [[Trash of the Titans]], [[Memento MacGuffin]].

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

** ''Protector of the Small'' uses the pet version of It's All Junk, but in a more gentle manner than usual. When Keladry leaves the palace to begin her apprenticeship as a squire, she leaves behind most of the sparrow flock she took care of as a page. Only a few of the most prominent birds follow Kel on her journey as a squire.

** In ''[[Circle of Magic]],'' this is done to the point of overdose in ''The Will of the Empress.'' The now-grown up quartet of mages, Tris, Daja, Sandry and Briar, must leave Winding Circle Temple, their home, as no-one is allowed to stay there past the age of sixteen without becoming a Dedicate (priest/priestess). The house they grew up in, "Discipline Cottage," is now home to a new generation of troublesome mages. Even more poignantly, {{spoiler|Tris leaves their pet dog, Little Bear, at the temple to keep the youngest of the new Discipline residents company.}} The Circle must begin their adulthood with little left but their magic and each other.

* The novella ''The Pearl'' end with the titular object being tossed back into the ocean after the struggle over it cost the life of the main character's son.

* In ''A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'', aspiring writer Francie keeps all her beautiful "A" Compositions. When her father dies, she starts writing more realistic stories about her father and how despite his faults, namely alcoholism, he was a good man. Her English teacher calls these stories "sordid" and tells her to burn them. Instead, she realizes the "good" compositions were cliched and insincere, and burns ''them''.

 

== Real Life ==

* Many people have this experience—or desperately try to avoid having it, and end up with too much junk—while doing "spring cleaning".

** On a similar note, [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] apparently never even collected the medals he earned during the war. (This may have been less this trope and more a manifestation of his hatred for the French, though.)

 

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