39,327
edits
Mara, Daughter of the Nile: Difference between revisions
m
Mass update links
(Import from TV Tropes TVT:Main.MaraDaughterOfTheNile 2012-07-01, editor history TVTH:Main.MaraDaughterOfTheNile, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license) |
m (Mass update links) |
||
Line 2:
''Mara, Daughter of the Nile'' is a YA novel by Eloise McGraw that is equal parts espionage thriller and romance novel, set in Ancient Egypt. The plot follows the slave girl Mara as she is sold by her brutal master, only to find herself drawn into two rival plots that involve the throne of Egypt. While at first acting only for herself, Mara finds herself falling for one of her two masters and believing in his cause. But maintaining her tenuous double life grows more and more difficult, and her failure to do so has consequences that change the course of Egypt's history.
{{tropelist}}
* [[Ancient Egypt]]: Naturally
Line 38:
* [[The Ingenue]]: Inanni
* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: Mara and Nekonkh, who seems to see Mara as the daughter he never had.
* [[Jade
* [[La Résistance]]: The faction that Sheftu leads on behalf of the king is basically this.
* [[Long Hair Is Feminine]]: Inanni's hip-length hair is just one of many cues of her gentle and nurturing personality.
Line 55:
* [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]]: ''Sheftu''
* [[Scullery Maid]]: Mara was this as a slave in Zasha's house.
* [[Secret Relationship]]: Mara and Sheftu's [[Will They or Won't They?]] and [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] have to be kept secret during their cover lives as great lord and lowly interpretor who barely have an excuse to interact. [[Everyone Can See It|Of course, people notice anyway]].
* [[Servile Snarker]]: Mara.
* [[She Is the King]]: Hatshepshut, as in [[Real Life]]. It's even noted that she wears masculine attire and a false beard in court.
Line 62:
* [[The Spymaster]]: Sheftu for Thutmose, Nareth for Hatshepsut. [[Double Agent|Mara works for both of them.]]
* [[Street Urchin]]: Mara frequently resorts to stealing food on the streets when her masters starve her, and she longs for "gold and freedom" above all things.
* [[Third
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Mara and Inanni for Thutmose.
* [[Trust Password]]: Sheftu gives Nekonkh a Trust Password for Mara: "Tell her I have not forgotten what I said last night when I took her in my arms." Nekonkh is repulsed by Sheftu's cold-bloodedness, as he is to use the Trust Password as part of Mara's loyalty test.
| |||