Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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[[Oranges Are Not the Only Frui] is Jeanette Winterson's somewhat autobiographical [[Coming of Ag] novel about a young adopted girl discovering she's a lesbian in a fanatically Christian community. It was later adapted as a [[Miniserie] by the [[BB].

Tropes used in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit include:

• [[Adaptation Name Chang]: Jeanette is renamed Jessica in the TV adaptation, possibly to reduce the autobiographical elements of the story.
• [[Adults Are Useles]: The only adult who even tries to help the protagonist is Mrs. Jewsberry who has possibly non-consensual and definitely underage sex with her.
• [[Allegory Adventur]: The fairy tales that pepper the text usually mirror Jeanette's life in some fashion.
• [[Arc Word]:
• [[Author Avata]: Quite obviously Jeanette.
• [[Biblical Motif]: Tons of them, including: casting the first stone, the walls of Jericho, Lot's wife, "to the pure all things are pure" (Titus 1.15), the number seven, and the names of the chapters.
• [[Butch Lesbia]: Kinda. Jeanette says she sees no similarity between herself and men -- except that she always wears trousers. In the miniseries this is averted: she almost never wears trousers and yet is attracted to the femme Melanie.
• [[Coming Out Stor]
• [[Cool Old Lad]: Elsie
• Double Standard Rape (Female on Female): Implied with the interactions between Jeanette and Mrs. Jewsberry.
• [[Girls Lov]: With Melanie and later Katy.
• Holier Than Thou: Melanie's husband has this attitude. So does Jeanette's mother and most of the congregation members.
• [[Jane Eyr]: It's Jeanette's mother's favorite book. Later we find out that {{spoiler|her mother [[Fan Wank|changed the endin] so that Jane marries St. John.}}
• [[Lipstick Lesbia]: In the miniseries.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: Elsie
• Motif: The eponymous oranges. Also the rough brown pebble.
• [[Nightmare Fetishis]: Jeanette was like this as a child.
• No Sex Allowed: This seems to be the rule in Jeanette's community. Her parents adopted her to avoid having sex.
• [[Only Sane Ma]: Jeanette for most of the story.
• [[Religion Is Wron]: Or at least fundamentalism is.
• [[Spiteful Spi]
• Title Drop: Towards the end, when Jeanette's mother winds up with a ton of pineapple and everybody at the church eats lots of pineapple dishes for a while.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Though all the other lesbians in the miniseries are [[Lipstick Lesbian|LipstickLesbian], the two who run the sweet shop are a butch/femme couple.
• [[The Fundamentalis]: Jeanette's mother.
• [[Theme Namin]: The chapters are named for the first eight books of the Christian [[The Bible|Bibl].

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