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A novel written by Joseph O'Connor, about a number of refugees aboard a boat, called ''[[Title Drop|Star of the Sea]]'', who are escaping from 1840s famine-stricken Ireland. |
A novel written by Joseph O'Connor, about a number of refugees aboard a boat, called ''[[Title Drop|Star of the Sea]]'', who are escaping from 1840s famine-stricken Ireland. |
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: David Merredith's father. |
* [[Abusive Parents]]: David Merredith's father. |
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* [[Arranged Marriage]]: David Merredith is predisposed to women of his own class only. |
* [[Arranged Marriage]]: David Merredith is predisposed to women of his own class only. |
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* [[Charles Dickens]]: He makes an appearance in the novel, and the writing itself has a certain Dickensian air. |
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* [[Crapsack World]]: Starvation, disease, evictions and violence are rampant, and nobody cares. |
* [[Crapsack World]]: Starvation, disease, evictions and violence are rampant, and nobody cares. |
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* [[Dead Person Impersonation]]: Pius Mulvey, crippled and unemployable, kills a schoolteacher in order to take his job and survive. |
* [[Dead Person Impersonation]]: Pius Mulvey, crippled and unemployable, kills a schoolteacher in order to take his job and survive. |
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[[Category:Historical Fiction Literature]] |
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Latest revision as of 19:51, 7 November 2015
A novel written by Joseph O'Connor, about a number of refugees aboard a boat, called Star of the Sea, who are escaping from 1840s famine-stricken Ireland.
Tropes used in Star of the Sea include:
- Abusive Parents: David Merredith's father.
- Arranged Marriage: David Merredith is predisposed to women of his own class only.
- Charles Dickens: He makes an appearance in the novel, and the writing itself has a certain Dickensian air.
- Crapsack World: Starvation, disease, evictions and violence are rampant, and nobody cares.
- Dead Person Impersonation: Pius Mulvey, crippled and unemployable, kills a schoolteacher in order to take his job and survive.
- Great Escape: Pius brutally murders a prison guard in order to escape from a London Jail.
- Irish Priest: Nicholas, Pius's brother, becomes one of these.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: A few lucky characters make new lives for themselves in America, but the majority die or are condemned to poverty in the slums of New York. The story concludes shortly before the Easter Rising, suggesting all the suffering did was to trigger and fuel several years of war.
- Tangled Family Tree: Supposedly with the Merredith and the Mulvey families.