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* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Justine, at least in the book.

* [[Forbidden Fruit]]: Ralph and Meggie, to each other.

* [[Hey It's That Guy]]!: [[The Count of Monte Cristo|Edmond Dantes]] is a priest, [[Film/Howls Moving Castle|Sophie]] is a housewife, [[Star Trek|Q]] is a toff who rides horses and [[The Sound of Music|Captain von Trapp]] is a cardinal.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]!: [[The Count of Monte Cristo|Edmond Dantes]] is a priest, [[Film/Howls Moving Castle|Sophie]] is a housewife, [[Star Trek|Q]] is a toff who rides horses and [[The Sound of Music|Captain von Trapp]] is a cardinal.

* [[Genius Cripple]]: Anne Mueller has a disability, and she is remarkably well-read.

* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Ralph and Meggie, Rain and Justine

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* [[Nephewism]]: Done with a twist. When Dane decides to enter the priesthood, Meggie agrees only as long as he can study with Father Ralph. Ralph's superior decides that, to throw off any suspicions from people who wonder at Ralph's obvious fondness for the younger man, they will tell people that Dane is his nephew.

* [[Nay Theist]]: Meggie had shades of this {{spoiler|especially when Dane dies}}.

* [[No Periods Period]]: Averted. Poor Ralph has to explain to Meggie what's actually happening when she starts menstruating, since her mother hasn't bothered to tell her anything at all and Meggie thinks she's dying from a tumour.

* [[No Periods, Period]]: Averted. Poor Ralph has to explain to Meggie what's actually happening when she starts menstruating, since her mother hasn't bothered to tell her anything at all and Meggie thinks she's dying from a tumour.

** And yet not averted: the characters exist in a [[No Periods Period]] culture, as made clear by the very fact ''that'' Meggie doesn't know what her menstruation is: and when she finally manages to tell Ralph, he is in an agony of embarrassment at the very mention of it (the women who tell him their sexual fantasies as fact in the confessional graphically describe every aspect of human sexuality they can imagine ... ''except'' that they menstruate).

** And yet not averted: the characters exist in a [[No Periods, Period]] culture, as made clear by the very fact ''that'' Meggie doesn't know what her menstruation is: and when she finally manages to tell Ralph, he is in an agony of embarrassment at the very mention of it (the women who tell him their sexual fantasies as fact in the confessional graphically describe every aspect of human sexuality they can imagine ... ''except'' that they menstruate).

* [[Nuns Are Spooky]]: In the book, Meggie has some horrible experiences at parochial school because of sadistic nuns.

* [[Oedipus Complex]]: Fee and Frank as well as Meggie and Dane. Ralph and Meggie can be seen as a gender swapped version as well.

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* [[Pedophile Priest]]: Subverted with Ralph, who is implied to have feelings for Meggie from the moment they meet, when he's 28 and she's ''10'', but nothing happens between them until she grows up. Even then, she's still quite young.

* [[Playing Gertrude]]: Rachel Ward is only a few years older than the actress and actor portraying her children. Justified in that she had to play Meggie over the course of many years.

* [[~~Preachers~~ Kid]]: Dane, in that he acts very angelic, but he is unaware of his true parentage.

* [[Preacher's Kid]]: Dane, in that he acts very angelic, but he is unaware of his true parentage.

* [[Rags to Riches]]: The Cleary family does this; they go from living a very meager existence on New Zealand to living on a fantastic country estate in Australia, even if they do spend the first few years living in the servants quarters.

* [[Rich Bitch]]: Mary Carson again.

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