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Heaven (1985)
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Heaven is a novel by V. C. Andrews first published in 1985. The first in the Casteel Series.The Casteel family—Heaven, her half-siblings Tom, Fanny, little Keith and Our Jane, her stepmother Sarah, her pa Luke Casteel, and his parents Annie and Toby—are known as "the scum of the hills," the poorest of the poor even among the poverty-stricken West Virginia village of Winnerrow. Heaven and Tom dream of making a better life for themselves and their family by completing school and getting a college education. Heaven's fortune seems to change for the better with the arrival of newly arrived City Slicker Logan Stonewall, who becomes Heaven's first love. But when the heart of the family, Granny Casteel, dies, Luke Casteel—never the greatest provider to begin with—completely abandons the family, while stepmother Sarah, fed up with his philandering, leaves the children to fend for themselves in the depths of a harsh mountain winter. Desperate for money, Luke returns with a plan to sell his children. Heaven finds herself sold to a dangerously abusive woman named Kitty and her weak-willed husband Cal, who emotionally manipulates Heaven and ultimately takes her virginity. Heaven, bruised but undaunted, becomes even more determined to find her lost siblings, claim her Boston heritage, and make something of herself. | |
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| Heaven (1985) / int_19fe3478 | type |
Daddy's Girl | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_19fe3478 | comment |
Daddy's Girl: Luke is much more affectionate towards Fanny than Heaven, the fact which Fanny revels in. | |
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The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry | |
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The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Heaven and Fanny. It starts with Heaven's resentment of Fanny's loving relationship with their father, while he ignores and outright abuses Heaven. It continues as Fanny's reputation at school tars Heaven with the same brush, leaving Heaven to fight off accusations that she's as easy as her sister. Meanwhile, Fanny envies Heaven's ability to win genuine love and tries to seduce Heaven's high school sweetheart away from her. | |
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Wrong-Name Outburst | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_1c96f945 | comment |
Wrong-Name Outburst: Sarah recounts one time Luke called her "Angel" during sex — while Leigh was still alive and he was cheating on her! | |
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Teacher/Parent Romance | |
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Teacher/Parent Romance: Miss Deale has a crush on her best students' father, Luke — like many women do. Once Heaven tells her that he's really not husband material and requests prostitutes, she drops it — until she speaks to Luke and he charms her again. | |
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Rash Promise | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_21725cb2 | comment |
Rash Promise: Implied Trope. We never find out what happened with Miss Deale; she leaves town for a family emergency and never comes back. While Heaven perceives Miss Deale as comparatively well off, she's a young single woman working as a public school teacher in Appalachia — her financial means are almost certainly limited. She basically offered to be one-woman social services for an incredibly desperate family. It sure looks like after Miss Deale talked to her family about the situation, she realized she'd gotten in over her head and guilty bailed and ran. | |
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MsExposition | |
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Ms. Exposition: The opening scene of the book is Granny dragging Heaven out of bed at midnight to go to the graveyard and monologue about backstory. | |
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Like Father, Like Son | |
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Like Father, Like Son: Sarah describes her younger self as as boy-crazy as Fanny. It didn't pan out well for her. Sarah thinks its inevitable Fanny will be the same, but urges Heaven to be different. | |
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Maternal Death? Blame the Child! | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_24a99217 | comment |
Maternal Death? Blame the Child!: Luke treats Heaven like crap because he blames her for Leigh's death. | |
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Barefoot Poverty | |
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Barefoot Poverty: The Casteel kids are perpetually on the edge of absolutely decrepit poverty. At one point, Heaven mentions she cut the toes off her shoes so she could keep wearing them after her feet grew bigger. | |
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Dirty Old Man | |
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Dirty Old Man: Cal Dennison takes advantage of his adopted daughter Heaven's loneliness in order to rape her. Poor Heaven is so confused by her affection for him that she briefly convinces herself that their relationship is consensual and feels guilty over it. | |
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Half-Sibling Angst | |
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Half-Sibling Angst: When Heaven first finds out she's not Sarah's daughter, she decides not to tell her brother Tom for fear that it would cause distance between them. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Luke (who isn't the best father when he is around) disappears for a time, rarely returning home. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Towards the end of the first part, the Casteel children are abandoned by both Luke and Sarah after they run off (separately) and Granny dies, with the only adult being their senile and weak grandfather. | |
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Family Relationship Switcheroo | |
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Family Relationship Switcheroo: Granny drags Heaven out of bed in the middle of the night, plays Ms. Exposition about her father's late first wife, and then is rather annoyed when Heaven doesn't get it. | |
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No Guy Wants an Amazon | |
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No Guy Wants an Amazon: Luke preferred his waifish first wife Leigh to his Amazonian, 6-foot-tall second wife Sarah. Yet while he's less attracted to Sarah, he still reaps the material benefits of her physical strength. | |
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Teen Pregnancy | |
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Teen Pregnancy: Completely ubiquitous in the hills. Leigh and Sarah both married Luke at 14, and Annie and Toby apparently met at that age too. 16 is considered an Old Maid. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For as self-centered and spiteful as she can be, Fanny has her moments. Notably after initially seething with envy when her two younger siblings are sold to strangers, she eventually breaks down crying on Heaven's shoulder and begs for reassurance that the little ones will be alright: "People love all little children, even ones not their own, don't they?" | |
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Sex in a Shared Room | |
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Sex in a Shared Room: In the hills, due to poverty, there is no privacy and virtually all sex is semi-public. | |
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Loving a Shadow | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_516f986d | comment |
He always called her "Angel" rather than her name, implying he was Loving a Shadow even when she was alive. | |
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling | |
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Heaven often takes care of the family and the house while Fanny slacks off and runs off with boys. | |
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Parental Incest | |
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Parental Incest: After he's sold all the other children, Luke comes to Heaven's bed one night. He starts stroking her hair and it looks like he's about to molest her. She's a Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest for her mother, his Lost Lenore. Heaven is afraid, frozen, and pretending to be asleep. But then — because this is a tiny cabin without privacy — Grandpa speaks up, lets Luke know he's awake, and stops him. In the conversation that follows, Luke confirms that was what he was about to do. | |
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Eating the Eye Candy | |
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Eating the Eye Candy: Heaven describes Sarah lusting after Luke in Hot Men at Work moments. | |
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Birth-Death Juxtaposition | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_6b7e3069 | comment |
Birth-Death Juxtaposition: Granny dies on the same day Sarah's fifth baby is born... except the baby is stillborn, making it less a juxtaposition and more of a doubly-whammy crushing tragedy for the family | |
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Grammar Nazi | |
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Grammar Nazi: Heaven nags Tom about speaking in Funetik Aksent. She wants to rise above their circumstances, but she's a broke kid so speaking like city people is the only thing she can do. | |
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Henpecked Husband | |
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Henpecked Husband: Cal barely gets better treatment than Heaven from Kitty, though he proves himself to be far less sympathetic than most examples, and even emotionally manipulates Kitty to an extent. | |
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Delicate and Sickly | |
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Delicate and Sickly: Our Jane is weak, sickly, and frail from birth. She suffers intense pain if her stomach is empty (a problem since the kids are constantly on the brink of starvation), but the same pain also makes her vomit if she eats too much. | |
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Troubling Unchildlike Behavior | |
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In contrast, Luke's favorite is Fanny, who he dotes on. Fanny's oversexed ways when she's all of 11 is Troubling Unchildlike Behavior, suggesting the possibility she was sexually abused. And Fanny does explicitly draw a connection between Pa and her boyfriends: | |
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Oblivious Adoption | |
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Oblivious Adoption: Heaven didn't know Sarah wasn't her biological mother until Granny told her — but she apparently was aware that she and Tom were four months apart in age. | |
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Evil Matriarch | |
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Evil Matriarch: Kitty is younger than most examples (being in her 30s at most) but is no less cruel to Heaven. | |
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Sibling Yin-Yang | |
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Sibling Yin-Yang: Heaven & Fanny: Heaven is modest, prideful, and self-sacrificing; Fanny is wanton, attention-seeking, and selfish, and irresponsible. They invariably clash. Keith & Our Jane: Keith is the gentle, shy, tender-hearted little brother while Our Jane is brash, affectionate, and a little bit of a show-off. Unlike Fanny and Heaven, however, Keith and Our Jane's relationship is particularly harmonious, to the point that they're described as "heart-felt twins." | |
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Riddle for the Ages | |
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Riddle for the Ages: What became of Sarah? Did she kill her self? Did Luke kill her? After finding out that she’s left Luke quite bluntly tells the kids that if he saw her again he'd shoot her. Heaven also mentions that people in the Willies have been known to just "disappear" as far removed from society as they are no one’s going to come looking for them. Did she simply succumb to the elements and pass away from natural causes? Did she make a make a new life for herself somewhere? All that’s ever told is that she left a note for Luke reading: Loved ya then, hate ya now and that’s she’s "looking for something betta". That’s about it! It’s possible that V.C had intended to address the topic but died before being able to do so. | |
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Tragic Keepsake | |
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Tragic Keepsake: Leigh's identical "portrait doll", which Heaven's grandmother gives to her at the beginning of the series. Kitty destroys it. | |
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| Heaven (1985) / int_9858c391 | type |
Chick Magnet | |
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Chick Magnet: Luke is widely lusted after — Leigh, Sarah, Miss Deale, and Kitty. He's handsome and he has a certain charisma, but he's very much not husband material in any more substantial sense. | |
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Tragic Stillbirth | |
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Tragic Stillbirth: Sarah's fifth baby is stillborn and deformed. The pregnancy already was pushing Sarah to her breaking point, and the loss of the baby pushes her even further. Afterwards, Luke goes to the doctor and is diagnosed with syphilis. He got it at the brothel and passed it to Sarah. | |
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| Heaven (1985) / int_a3515d6 | type |
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_a3515d6 | comment |
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: What goes down with Cal and Heaven is in some ways a lot like what happened with Paul and Cathy in Petals on the Wind. After parental abandonment, heroine finds herself in a new adoptive home in her mid teens. Her new adoptive father is into her. He grooms her after some fashion. She feels like she owes him. It gets sexual. But it's also different on several counts: Paul's in his 40s, where Cal's in his 20s. Where Paul really does materially help the Dollanganger kids in a huge way, Cal does the bare minimum to look good in contrast with Kitty. While Paul arguably grooms Cathy — namely sending her siblings away to boarding school to get her alone — Cal unambiguously grooms Heaven. While there's some stuff in Thorns that suggests her viewpoint may shift with age, Cathy mostly views her experience with Paul as a love story. Heaven is fairly clear that hers is unwanted. | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname: Jane is always called Our Jane. Heaven cuddled her so much as a baby that none of the other children got a chance to hold her, causing Fanny to proclaim that the new baby belonged to all of them, not just to Heaven: "She's our Jane, not yours!" | |
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Madonna-Whore Complex | |
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Madonna-Whore Complex: Subverted Trope. On two separate occasions, Fanny aggressively hits on Heaven's boyfriend Logan, and then Heaven — clearly insecure and seeking reassurance — asks Logan what he thinks of Fanny. Madonna-Whore is the obvious contrast to draw between the Casteel sisters, especially in this situation where Heaven pushing him to say that she's preferable to Fanny. But Logan refuses to criticize Fanny. Both times he simply says that Fanny is great, and Heaven is also great and she is who he wants. | |
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Morality Chain | |
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Morality Chain: Granny says Leigh made Luke want to be a better man. Although even at his "best", he was still cheating on her with Sarah. | |
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Good Stepmother | |
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Good Stepmother: Sarah isn't always a perfect mother, but the fact that Heaven isn't her own daughter is a non-issue. Unlike Luke and Kitty, Sarah does not see Heaven as a nagging reminder of Leigh and the long-ago love triangle. The only times Sarah takes issue with Heaven, it's when she's mad at life and Heaven just happens to be nearby to absorb her anger. When Sarah's at the end of he rope and Abusive Parent tenancies come out, they land on all the kids equally. | |
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Incest Subtext | |
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Incest Subtext: Heaven feels unloved by Luke, and desperately craves to be loved by him. At one point she fantasizes about reaching out and touching his cheek. In contrast, Luke's favorite is Fanny, who he dotes on. Fanny's oversexed ways when she's all of 11 is Troubling Unchildlike Behavior, suggesting the possibility she was sexually abused. And Fanny does explicitly draw a connection between Pa and her boyfriends: Siblings Tom and Heaven both gush about how attractive the other is. Tom states that if Heaven weren't his sister, he'd marry her. | |
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Heaven (1985) / int_bdc453a0 | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_bec0417c | type |
Happily Married | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_bec0417c | comment |
Happily Married: Amidst a sea of dysfunctional and abusive relationships, Annie and Toby have a sweet, loving relationship. Annie urges Heaven to "make sure t'marry t'right one, like I did." Toby is absolutely gutted by his wife's death and is never the same after. | |
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Heaven (1985) / int_bec0417c | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_bf1255fa | type |
Really Gets Around | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_bf1255fa | comment |
Really Gets Around: Fanny is routinely getting fingered in the cloakroom at 11. Her family has already written her off as a lost cause. | |
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| Heaven (1985) | hasFeature |
Heaven (1985) / int_bf1255fa | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_c1901748 | type |
Healthcare Motivation | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_c1901748 | comment |
Healthcare Motivation: Our Jane is Delicate and Sickly and the family has no money for a doctor. Even if they did, Grandpa warns against it. He and Annie once blew all their saving on healthcare for their sickly little son, who died anyways. When Our Jane is sold, the fact that she needs medical care that the Casteels can't afford is used as a reason to justify it. | |
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Heaven (1985) / int_c1901748 | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_c3286b8e | type |
Uptown Girl | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_c3286b8e | comment |
Uptown Girl: Leigh grew up a rich girl in Boston and she married Luke, a dirt-poor hillbilly. | |
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Heaven (1985) / int_c3286b8e | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_c3b40ab8 | type |
Evil Redhead | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_c3b40ab8 | comment |
Evil Redhead: Kitty is a liar, an abuser and an animal killer. She also happens to be a redhead. | |
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Heaven (1985) / int_c3b40ab8 | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_c90ca8b5 | type |
Emergency Food Supply Animal | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_c90ca8b5 | comment |
Emergency Food Supply Animal: The children are left alone and starving during a blizzard and Heaven finds herself forced to consider killing one of the family's dogs. She gets as far as picking up the ax and heading out the door before she loses her nerve. | |
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Heaven (1985) / int_c90ca8b5 | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_d29a6629 | type |
Death by Childbirth | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_d29a6629 | comment |
Death by Childbirth: Leigh died giving birth to Heaven. | |
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Heaven (1985) / int_d29a6629 | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_d358ed20 | type |
Unbalanced By Rival's Kid | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_d358ed20 | comment |
Unbalanced By Rival's Kid: Kitty buys/adopts Heaven, the daughter of her once-romantic-rival Leigh. Kitty abuses Heaven, but in the mix are moments of (weirdly) treating her like a daughter, the daughter she might have had if life had gone differently. | |
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| Heaven (1985) | hasFeature |
Heaven (1985) / int_d358ed20 | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_d52d28b6 | type |
Hypocrite | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_d52d28b6 | comment |
Hypocrite: Luke calling Sarah "heartless" for abandoning her children is a little much coming from someone who deserts his family for long periods of time, only occasionally stopping by to leave them some basic necessities and later even sells his children to fund treatment for his syphilis (which he got because of all the unprotected and adulterous sex he was having with prostitutes)! That's not even going into the fact that Sarah might not have run away if he'd ever supported her or helped her with the kids and the house and his parents once in a blue moon! | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_d52d28b6 | featureApplicability |
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Heaven (1985) / int_d52d28b6 | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_d67239d2 | type |
Even Evil Can Be Loved | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_d67239d2 | comment |
Even Evil Can Be Loved: Luke is a real piece of work, but his parents love him. Part of it is that because he's their youngest, and the only child left to them. They have 5 sons incarcerated, and one son who died young due to health issues. | |
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Heaven (1985) / int_d67239d2 | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_db2b02bf | type |
Horrible Housing | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_db2b02bf | comment |
Horrible Housing: The Casteels' pitiful mountain shack is described in painful detail: a one-room building made of thin wooden planks with gaps between the floorboards, there is no electricity, no running water, and no indoor toilet. Though the house is only a little bigger than a standard suburban living room, nine people share the space, with the adults sharing the only bed while the children and two elderly grandparents sleep on the floor. | |
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Heaven (1985) / int_db2b02bf | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_dcd423d2 | type |
Affectionate Nickname | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_dcd423d2 | comment |
Affectionate Nickname: When his wife dies, one of the tiny, crushing details is that there's no one else in his life who calls him Toby. | |
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Heaven (1985) / int_dcd423d2 | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_e264a558 | type |
Major Character, Mainstream Accent | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_e264a558 | comment |
Major Character, Mainstream Accent: Most of the characters speak with a Funetik Aksent, except Heaven. The Watsonian reason is that she intentionally speaks as "proper" as she can because she wants to separate herself from her situation and origins. | |
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Heaven (1985) / int_e264a558 | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_e5421161 | type |
Expy | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: Heaven and Fanny's relationship is at times that of Sense and Sensibility's Elinor and Marianne Dashwood — the whole Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling trope, not to mention that like Marianne, Fanny is the favorite whereas Heaven isn't. Given that one of the authors Heaven is fond of is Jane Austen, it probably wasn't that unintentional. | |
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Heaven (1985) / int_e5421161 | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_e9db9908 | type |
Younger Than They Look | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_e9db9908 | comment |
Younger Than They Look: A regular theme as Heaven notes how the hills turn people old before their time, both physically and mentally. A prime example is Heaven's grandmother Annie, who is only in her 50s but looks far, far older. | |
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Heaven (1985) / int_e9db9908 | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_f0c4ce7d | type |
The Lost Lenore | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_f0c4ce7d | comment |
The Lost Lenore: Leigh to Luke. | |
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Heaven (1985) / int_f0c4ce7d | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_f12d9d83 | type |
Promotion to Parent | |
| Heaven (1985) / int_f12d9d83 | comment |
Promotion to Parent: Heaven and Tom are the eldest of 5. Between their mostly absentee dad and overworked mom, they're often drafted as secondary parents for the little ones, Keith and Our Jane. Middle child Fanny alternates back and forth between helper and burden. When Sarah leaves, Heaven remarks, "How oddly Our Jane and Keith took the absence of Sarah, as if they'd always lived on unstable ground." | |
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| Heaven (1985) / int_name | type |
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