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In Desert And Wilderness

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In Desert And Wilderness	comment	1884, The River War rages in Sudan. Meanwhile, in Port Said, two engineers, a Pole Mr. Tarkowski and an Englishman Mr. Rawlinson, supervise the maintenance of the Suez Canal. Both widowers, they became fast friends soon after they met, and so have their children - fourteen years old StaÅ› Tarkowski and eight years old Nel Rawlinson. This idyllic life is interrupted when Fatma, the wife of one of Mahdi's generals, in an attempt to join her husband, has StaÅ› and Nel kidnapped, counting on their influential fathers arranging an exchange.But the children escape - right into the wildest Africa - together with a pair of runaway slaves they trek deserts and jungles, hoping to reach the ocean.Serialized in 1910-11 in "Kurier Warszawski", W pustyni i w puszczy is one of the most popular novels by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Adapted to movie (and a TV series) twice: first in 1973 by WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Åšlesicki (starring Tomasz MÄ™drzak and Monika Rosca), then in 2001 by Gavin Hood (Adam Fidusiewicz and Karolina Sawka).Also inspired Nowe przygody Stasia i Nel translation New Adventures of StaÅ› and Nel, a Steampunk webcomic (read it here), sadly not updated for ages.Read it in Polish here.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_11c754d8	type	Trail of Bread Crumbs
In Desert And Wilderness / int_11c754d8	comment	Trail of Bread Crumbs: One of StaÅ›'s escape attempts (using Nel's gloves). Later on he makes and lets loose to the winds kites with their whereabouts, hoping to attract rescuers. One of the kites does reach the dads, bringing them to the exactly right place at the nick of time.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_19d8d325	type	Darkest Africa
In Desert And Wilderness / int_19d8d325	comment	Darkest Africa: Bit Lighter and Softer, but the continent is still portrayed as disease-ridden wilderness full of murderous predators and aggressive natives.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_19dcd4bc	type	Sand in My Eyes
In Desert And Wilderness / int_19dcd4bc	comment	Sand In My Eyes: Nel insists her eyes are sweating, and she's most definitely not crying.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
In Desert And Wilderness / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Mea has maybe ten lines in the entire book.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_1effdd6b	type	White Man's Burden
In Desert And Wilderness / int_1effdd6b	comment	White Man's Burden: Mild, since StaÅ› is 14, but if that wasn't for him, Kali would still be a slave. He and Nel also take it upon themselves to teach christianity to Kali and Mea and baptise them, which leads to one or two moments of levity.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
In Desert And Wilderness / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In form of a literal gun - StaÅ› is given a hunting rifle as a present by his father in the very first chapter. He uses it in more than one critical moment during the story.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_25f33d8	type	Sick Episode
In Desert And Wilderness / int_25f33d8	comment	Sick Episode: Nel comes down with malaria, which gives her fever and nightmares.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_28b2f93a	type	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil
In Desert And Wilderness / int_28b2f93a	comment	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Out of the long list of the kidnappers' vices the fact they are slave traders is explicity brought up every chance given.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_2bbba5f3	type	Say Your Prayers
In Desert And Wilderness / int_2bbba5f3	comment	Say Your Prayers: As he approaches the lion, StaÅ› starts mumbling one under his breath. Before he even finishes the trinitarian formula, the animal attacks.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_2bcd8194	type	Loyal Animal Companion
In Desert And Wilderness / int_2bcd8194	comment	Loyal Animal Companion: Nel's Big Friendly Dog, Saba and King, whom she tamed and had StaÅ› rescue.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_2df4fa08	type	Omniglot
In Desert And Wilderness / int_2df4fa08	comment	Omniglot: StaÅ› is Polish/English bilingual and speaks good enough Arabic and Swahili to get by in Africa.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_3b0bd0ab	type	Thirsty Desert
In Desert And Wilderness / int_3b0bd0ab	comment	Thirsty Desert: The one they have to cross in the finale.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_3eb8ba12	type	Description Porn
In Desert And Wilderness / int_3eb8ba12	comment	Description Porn: Here and there. Africa is breathtaking.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
In Desert And Wilderness / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Chamis is the most villainous of all the kidnappers, while previously working as a servant for Rawlinson. In both film adaptations he's suddenly a Nice Guy conflicted between tribe loyalty and standing for the well-being of the children, dying by Taking the Bullet. In the book, StaÅ› shot him in the head as his very first human target, precisely because how evil and brutal Chamis was. This is often used by school teachers to check who didn't read the book and only saw any of the two adaptations.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
In Desert And Wilderness / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: While Nel has malaria, StaÅ› accidentally meets Linde, a dying European explorer (whose entire caravan died of sleeping disease) - and he gives them not only chinine, but horses, supplies and everything he has.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
In Desert And Wilderness / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: How Omdurman is portrayed. Khartoum, too, but only when ruled by the Sudanese.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_41271766	type	Happily Ever After
In Desert And Wilderness / int_41271766	comment	Happily Ever After: The epilogue takes place a decade after the events of the book.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
In Desert And Wilderness / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: StaÅ› confronts Mahdi, who promises much for converting. StaÅ› refuses, which makes a friendly Greek guy despair over StaÅ›'s idiocy.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_45cec696	type	God Guise
In Desert And Wilderness / int_45cec696	comment	God Guise: Nel is acclaimed "the good Mzimu".
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
In Desert And Wilderness / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child/Would Hit a Girl: Gebhr would beat Nel, but this is Berserk Button for StaÅ›.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_5941d75	type	Beta Couple
In Desert And Wilderness / int_5941d75	comment	Beta Couple: Blink and you'll miss it.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_5eb92325	type	Declaration of Protection
In Desert And Wilderness / int_5eb92325	comment	Declaration of Protection: StaÅ›, for Nel, repeatedly. Delivered with zeal.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_61c3ca7b	type	Panthera Awesome
In Desert And Wilderness / int_61c3ca7b	comment	Panthera Awesome: The inevitable lions. Wobo, which is probably a cheetah (essays have been written about what exactly it is).
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_76e24530	type	Delicate and Sickly
In Desert And Wilderness / int_76e24530	comment	Delicate and Sickly: Nel's delicate health is mentioned right at the start, in chapter I. It's only a matter of time before she catches malaria and large part of the drama is about keeping her healthy from there on.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_772e049b	type	Maid and Maiden
In Desert And Wilderness / int_772e049b	comment	Maid and Maiden: Dinah is Nel's Maid and caretaker until she dies. Later the maid's duties are taken over by Mea.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_7c46c734	type	Common Tongue
In Desert And Wilderness / int_7c46c734	comment	Common Tongue: Downplayed with swahili. While it is the lingua franca for Great Lakes region and surrounding areas, neither StaÅ› nor Kali are too fluent in it, leading to a lot of Third-Person Person dialogues and few moments of confusion when wrong words are picked.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_8344209e	type	BFG
In Desert And Wilderness / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: The gun used by StaÅ› is double-barelled rifle, a specific type of gun for big game hunting.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_8bd2ee20	type	Native Guide
In Desert And Wilderness / int_8bd2ee20	comment	Native Guide: Subverted - Kali is from Africa, he knows how to get about in Africa - but where he's from is a different part of said continent, and he has no idea where exactly they are.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
In Desert And Wilderness / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: Kali and Mea, who are probably eloquent in their respective native tongues, but not so much in Swahili.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
In Desert And Wilderness / int_8f612013	comment	Token Good Teammate: Downplayed with Idrys. He's still a religious fanatic and a kidnapper, but he's trying his best to treat the children well and he's often disgusted with the pointless cruelty of Chamis and Gebhr. Appropriately, he's the only one who isn't killed by StaÅ› and dies peacefully of malaria instead.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_8f746311	type	Cargo Cult
In Desert And Wilderness / int_8f746311	comment	Cargo Cult: A village on the shores of the Dark Lake has one of Stas's kites in their shrine.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
In Desert And Wilderness / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: The Wa-hima shaman does not take kindly to the weird new people who bring out his lies.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
In Desert And Wilderness / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: "But the rifle may shoot several times a row."
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_a220d528	type	What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
In Desert And Wilderness / int_a220d528	comment	What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Sure, let's give the boy we mistreated for few months a gun and a handful of cartridges, surely the lion will kill him anyway.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_a5001f7f	type	Chekhov's Classroom
In Desert And Wilderness / int_a5001f7f	comment	Chekhov's Classroom: StaÅ› trains Idrys in using his breech-loaded, cartridge-fed hunting rifle, quite a novelty back then. Since Idrys dies of malaria, this leaves StaÅ› as the only person who knows how to use the gun capable of killing the lion.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
In Desert And Wilderness / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Linde and his men do, after all, get a funeral.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
In Desert And Wilderness / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: For the first part of the book, StaÅ› is planning to escape his kidnappers, save Nel and get back home post-haste as a hero, confusing his situation with that out of a chivalric novel. Instead, he ends up killing his kidnappers in cold blood (a burden for his conscience ever since) - and after doing so, ends up effectively stranded in the middle of African wilderness, with no supplies or possible help within thousands of miles. Oh, and it turns out taking care for a constantly sick child companion is quite a daunting task, regardless of everything else.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_b3987997	type	Men Act, Women Are
In Desert And Wilderness / int_b3987997	comment	Men Act, Women Are: Zig-zagged. Nel doesn't do much, except inspire sympathy and loyalty in people (and animals!) - but that helps them indirectly more often than not.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_b49e24b0	type	Honorable Elephant
In Desert And Wilderness / int_b49e24b0	comment	Honorable Elephant: Nel finds a starving, trapped African elephant near their camp. She calls it King and proceeds to feed, tame and train it (not that King needs much training). Then she makes StaÅ› use a good portion of his gunpowder stash to blow up the rocks trapping the elephant. The animal remains loyal for the rest of the story and saves the day more than once.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_bcbf7aef	type	Plucky Comic Relief
In Desert And Wilderness / int_bcbf7aef	comment	Plucky Comic Relief: Kali's simple-minded wisdom provides half the humour.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_bdd7fd6b	type	These Hands Have Killed
In Desert And Wilderness / int_bdd7fd6b	comment	These Hands Have Killed: StaÅ› kills Chamis and Gebhr to finally escape which causes him some pangs of conscience. In the end he's told it was the right thing to do, since he was defending a lady.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_bddaae25	type	Lost Tribe
In Desert And Wilderness / int_bddaae25	comment	Lost Tribe: Kali's people, the Wa-hima.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_d0edc982	type	The Chief's Daughter
In Desert And Wilderness / int_d0edc982	comment	The Chief's Daughter: Turns out Kali is chief's son. Not sexy, since it's a children's novel, but cool anyway.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_d33456e7	type	Improbable Age
In Desert And Wilderness / int_d33456e7	comment	Improbable Age: It's a little hard to take all his feats, skills, language fluency, knowledge and actions when StaÅ› is just fourteen. It was rising eyebrows right from the time the book was published. Film adaptations ended up casting a 19 and 16 year old.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_d64c3cd4	type	Living MacGuffin
In Desert And Wilderness / int_d64c3cd4	comment	Living MacGuffin: Nel's main purpose in the plot is to motivate StaÅ›.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
In Desert And Wilderness / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The two nice Englishmen from chapter III. They're not just window dressing.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
In Desert And Wilderness / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: None of the kidnappers expected a fourteen year old boy would not only survive an encounter with a lion, but then proceed to kill them without as much as a blink.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
In Desert And Wilderness / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: All the dialogues are written in Polish, with a hefty helping of Third-Person Person, while they are spoken in-story in five different languages. The convention only becomes apparent when tired StaÅ› slips into English and Kali (who doesn't speak it) is overjoyed for being called "donkey".
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_e263ae1	type	Inscrutable Oriental
In Desert And Wilderness / int_e263ae1	comment	Inscrutable Arabs: The portrayal of Fatma and Muslims in general, who are all either Smug Snakes or just pointlessly brutal.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_e53426b9	type	Desert Bandits
In Desert And Wilderness / int_e53426b9	comment	Desert Bandits: Idrys, Gebhr and their band of kidnappers.
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In Desert And Wilderness / int_e5dfe115	type	Sworn Brothers
In Desert And Wilderness / int_e5dfe115	comment	Sworn Brothers: Blood brotherhood, with an entire ritual going with it, is a common practice among the Wa-hima and their neighbour tribes. StaÅ› himself ends up bounding with Kali this way, and later Kali uses it extensively in tribal diplomacy.
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