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Miss Happiness and Miss Flower
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Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden is 1961 Children's Literature. It's followed by a 1963 sequel, Little Plum.Nona Fell grew up in India under The Raj. After her father sends her to England to live with cousins, eight-year-old Nona is overcome with homesickness. Then her great-aunt sends two Japanese dolls which need love and care. She takes it upon herself to build them a Japanese dollhouse. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The dolls come with a letter from Great-Aunt Lucy Dickinson. The letter mentions 3 dolls: Miss Happiness, Miss Flower, and Little Peach. There's only 2 dolls in the package. They eventually follow up about the third doll. | |
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Made in Country X | |
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Made in Country X: Nona sets her eyes on Melly's pencil box, with the intention of turning it into a cupboard for her dollhouse. When she gets it, the dolls are delighted to read "Made in Japan" stamped on the back. | |
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Plot Parallel: The central plot of the book. Nona was raised in India and has been sent to England. She's feeling very discombobulated and alone in a strange country. She is gifted two Japanese dolls, who are in the same position. She identifies with the dolls, and feels strongly that she needs to make them at home. As she builds a Japanese dollhouse for them, she makes friends and slowly builds a home for herself in England as well. | |
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Commonality Connection: Implied Trope. Mr Twilfit alludes to some childhood experience which is reminiscent of Nona's, but it's not followed up on. | |
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Pseudo-Romantic Friendship | |
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Pseudo-Romantic Friendship: Nona's desire to be friends with her classmate Melly looks rather like a crush. | |
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Grumpy Old Man | |
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Grumpy Old Man: Mr Twilfit who runs the bookshop is a grouchy old man. Before Nona ever meets him, she hears her cousins' stories about him being cross and scary. But he's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and Nona earns his respect by washing her hands before touching his books. He takes a liking to her, and even lends her books for free because he trusts her to return them undamaged. | |
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Living Toys | |
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Living Toys: The dolls are conscious and can talk to each other, but are otherwise immobile and can only affect humans by wishing very hard. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Belinda comes to jealously resent how much attention Nona and her dollhouse project command. When the house is finally done, Nona has a sort of ribbon-cutting party where she invites over everyone who helped. Belinda ruins the party by demanding Miss Happiness be given to her, per the original letter. At first Belinda fells good about her upset, but by nightfall she's feeling guilty and unable to sleep. Belinda cries, then she gets up, takes Miss Happiness to her dollhouse and tucks her into bed. And after that, Belinda sleeps soundly. | |
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Fish out of Water | |
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Fish out of Water: Nona Fell was born in India to English parents and raised on Coimbatore Tea Estate, near Travancore, South India. Her mother died when she was a baby, so she was brought up by her father and an Ayah, an Indian nurse. At age 8, her father sends her to live with cousins in England. Nona is terribly homesick and has a really hard time adjusting. | |
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Reverse Psychology | |
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Reverse Psychology: Tom initially has no interest in doing carpentry work to build a dollhouse for his cousin. Mr Twilfit talks about how the project is surely too difficult for him. Tom then does it to prove his skill. | |
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Shown Their Work: These days, Japanese cultural information is pretty widely available outside of Japan, but this book was published in 1961. The book includes a note thanking "Mr Seo of the Japanese Embassy" for his help. | |
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