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* [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]: The story of the Borrowers is presented as something told to the author when she was a child (she gives her younger self the name "Kate," to distance herself from the [[Take That Me|"wild, untidy, self-willed little girl who stared with angry eyes and was said to crunch her teeth"]] she apparently was back then), and which she wrote down for her own children when she was an adult. This is most clear in the first two books, where the [[Framing Device]] is the story of how "Kate" meets and talks to old people who either met or were told of the Borrowers in their youths. The latter books (and almost all the adaptations) drop this device, but still include people who could conceivably have talked to "Kate" many years later and told her the story.
* [[Mouse World]]
* [[No Name Given]]: The human boy who befriends the Clock family. In the early '90s films, he's called George, in the '97 film he's called Pete [[Meaningful Name|Lender]], in the [[Studio Ghibli]] [[The Borrower Arrietty|film]] he's called Sho<ref>Or Shawn, because [[Dub Name Change]]. Or Sho, because there are ''two'' English dubs, and the other dub does ''not'' change the name.</ref>, and in the 2011 film he's called James. Only the '70s [[Hallmark Hall of Fame]] version kept him anonymous.
* [[Opposite Gender Protagonists]]: The unnamed boy and Arrietty. Arrietty reads to the illiterate boy, strengthening the bond between them. The boy, being far larger than Arrietty, protects her from the dangers the humans present.
* [[Parody]]: Some readers believe that the eponymous characters of the ''[[The Borribles|Borribles]]'' books by Michael de Larrabeiti are intended as a vicious parody of the Borrowers. Given the ''other'' vicious parodies in the book -- such as the Rumbles vs. [[The Wombles]] -- it's not ''that'' far-fetched.
* [[Posthumous Character]]: Within the [[Framing Device]] story, ''all'' of the major characters might be considered this, since the main story takes place so long ago -- though only the Boy (who was the younger brother of Mrs. May, who first tells "Kate" the story of the Borrowers) is actually confirmed to have died; the Borrowers themselves simply left and were never seen again.
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