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Eric, or Little by Little

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Eric, or Little by Little	comment	Eric, or Little by Little is an 1858 novel by Frederic W. Farrar. It follows Eric Williams, a boy attending Roslyn School. He makes friends and achieves success both socially and academically, but also encounters bullies, bad influences, and the temptation to abandon his morals for popularity.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_117b3429	comment	A Taste of the Lash: After Eric is kneecapped, he becomes unable to do any work at all. When the skipper orders him to furl a sail, Eric tries to climb the rigging but can't. The skipper orders him tied to the rigging by his hands and whips him on the back with a rope until one of the sailors warns that continuing the beating will kill him.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
Eric, or Little by Little / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: When Eric starts school, a boy named Barker becomes jealous of his intelligence and expresses his frustrations by harassing Eric and picking fights with him. Barker's previous favourite target was Owen, who eventually told the headmaster, Dr Rowlands, about Barker's behaviour. Dr Rowlands gave Barker a public caning, which stopped the bullying at the expense of Owen's standing with all the other boys.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Eric, or Little by Little / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Eric stays with his parents, who have hired a house near Roslyn, during his first two terms. During Eric's first term, his father happens to be walking by the playground while Barker beats Eric and Russell. Eric's father beats Barker with a riding-whip, threatens to beat him even worse if he ever hurts Eric again, and excoriates the other boys for not standing up to Barker.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_2d363f63	comment	Frame-Up: Barker steals Eric's ink and wafers. He uses the ink to write a note that says 'Gordon is a surly devil', carefully mimicking Eric's handwriting. Then he sticks the note to the board using the wafers. He hopes Eric will be flogged for it. Instead, Dr Rowlands decides to have a trial. An older boy named Gibson prosecutes, and Russell defends Eric. Russell uncovers several pieces of evidence that Eric was framed. When Owen testifies that he found the paper Barker wrote on while learning to copy Eric's handwriting, Barker breaks down and confesses. Barker is forced to run a gauntlet in which dozens of boys beat him with knotted handkerchiefs. The next morning he is flogged and expelled.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_31aba995	type	Self-Abuse
Eric, or Little by Little / int_31aba995	comment	Self-Abuse: An infamous passage rails against the evils of "Kibroth-Hattaavah", which seems to be an Unusual Euphemism for masturbation.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
Eric, or Little by Little / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: Eric spends his first few years at or near the top of his form. But as he gets older and more rebellious, he stops caring about schoolwork, and his marks get worse. Some of his schoolmasters tell him that he's wasting his potential, but he doesn't listen until he's almost expelled for drunkenness, which scares him into straightening out.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
Eric, or Little by Little / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: Eric and his best friend Edwin Russell agree to call each other by their first names.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_419c05af	type	The Cabin Boy
Eric, or Little by Little / int_419c05af	comment	The Cabin Boy: Eric runs away and becomes a cabin boy aboard the Stormy Petrel, a ship going to and from Corunna. Eric suffers from severe seasickness and does such a poor job at his work that the skipper calls him 'perfectly useless'.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_5a7b4065	type	Bedsheet Ladder
Eric, or Little by Little / int_5a7b4065	comment	Bedsheet Ladder: Eric uses two tied-together sheets to climb out his bedroom window when he runs away to escape the shame of being an accused thief.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_707193f6	type	Aloof Big Brother
Eric, or Little by Little / int_707193f6	comment	Aloof Big Brother: When Eric's younger brother Vernon arrives at Roslyn, Eric is embarrassed to be seen with him and acts cold and distant. Without Eric's guidance, Vernon befriends Brigson, the worst bully and troublemaker of the lower forms.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_8dd7a356	type	Long Last Look
Eric, or Little by Little / int_8dd7a356	comment	Long Last Look: As Eric is running away, he stops at the end of the playground to look back at Roslyn and think about all his good and bad memories of the school. Then he sees the light in Mr Rose's window move and starts running for fear of being spotted.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_9b86a4f8	type	Nostalgic Narrator
Eric, or Little by Little / int_9b86a4f8	comment	Nostalgic Narrator: The last chapter reveals that the narrator is one of Eric's schoolmates, although it isn't clear which one, since the rest of the book is in the third person. He decided to write a biography of his dead friend in order to honour his memory and warn other boys away from his fate.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Eric, or Little by Little / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: In the last chapter, two Roslyn alumni get together to talk about the fates of their former schoolmates. Montagu has succeeded to his father's estate and plans to run for Parliament; Owen is a fellow and assistant tutor; Duncan, Upton, and Wildney have all joined the army; Graham is a lawyer; and Brigson became a policeman after being disowned by his family.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_b9fd7929	type	Morality Chain
Eric, or Little by Little / int_b9fd7929	comment	Morality Chain: Russell is highly moral and totally uninterested in the popularity that tempts Eric. His influence causes Eric to behave a lot better than he would otherwise; for example, Eric gives up smoking because Russell doesn't like it. After Russell's death, Eric is on his best behaviour for months, but eventually succumbs to temptation and becomes more lazy and disobedient than ever.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_bd406737	type	Anxiety Dreams
Eric, or Little by Little / int_bd406737	comment	Anxiety Dreams: When Eric is being blackmailed, he has nightmares that Brigson and Billy are demanding five pounds from him on pain of death while pigeons swarm him. In the dream, Eric asks Wildney and Mr Rose for help, but they turn from him, while a chorus of voices cries 'Williams, you are a thief!'
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_c49935fa	type	20 Minutes into the Past
Eric, or Little by Little / int_c49935fa	comment	20 Minutes into the Past: The story is set in the late 1840s, judging by the date on Russell's tombstone.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_cdad4b25	type	Toxic Friend Influence
Eric, or Little by Little / int_cdad4b25	comment	Toxic Friend Influence: Eric becomes friends with Upton, an older boy who introduces him to smoking and encourages him to slack off in school and break the rules. When Eric is older, he befriends the younger boy Wildney, and they both encourage each other in rule-breaking.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Eric, or Little by Little / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: Eric is twelve at the beginning of the book. Part I takes place over his first year in school, and is followed by a Time Skip of another year. He should be fourteen at the beginning of Part II. Instead, he's said to be sixteen.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_dc031fde	type	Inelegant Blubbering
Eric, or Little by Little / int_dc031fde	comment	Inelegant Blubbering: A group of boys, led by Brigson, pelts Mr Rose with breadcrusts. Mr Rose canes Brigson, who cries like a baby and rolls around on the floor yelling 'The devil—the devil—the devil!' The other boys are so disgusted by Brigson's show of cowardice that he goes from the most popular boy in the lower forms to being scorned by everyone.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Eric, or Little by Little / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: As Eric lies in the hold after being whipped, he feels God's presence and repents of all his sins. Unfortunately, his cruel treatment aboard the Stormy Petrel has destroyed his health. By the time Eric escapes the ship and travels back to Fairholm, he is dying. He lives long enough for his friends to visit him for the last time before he expires.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_f3ae169c	type	Knee-capping
Eric, or Little by Little / int_f3ae169c	comment	Knee-capping: During the Stormy Petrel's return voyage, a sailor overhears Eric winding his expensive watch, which was a gift from his mother and is the only item he kept with him from Roslyn. The next day the sailor tries to buy the watch from Eric, and when he refuses, the sailor tells the skipper. The skipper demands the watch as pay for Eric's feed, and when Eric refuses, the skipper kicks him on the knee, putting it out.
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Eric, or Little by Little / int_ff5b39d0	type	Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!
Eric, or Little by Little / int_ff5b39d0	comment	Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!: Duncan and Wildney invite Eric to sneak out to the pub with them to buy beer. Eric says it isn't worth it. Wildney says, 'I believe you think I'm afraid, and what's more, I believe you're afraid.' Furious that a younger boy would accuse him of cowardice, Eric agrees to go to the pub with them.
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