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Seven Brothers (Finnish: Seitsemän veljestä) is a 1870 novel by Aleksis Kivi, a story about the seven brothers of Jukola, a house near the fictional village of Toukola in 19th century Finland.The story begins as the brothers, their parents now dead, decide to try and become proper people and take responsibility of their lives to their own hands. They face difficulties in the society, and when finally fed up, they build a new home in Impivaara, in the middle of the wilderness, to live in isolation. During the ten years there, however, the brothers find that peaceful and sustainable life still evades them. Eventually they try to fix their ways again with renewed motivation. Through hard work they repair their social standing and reputation and learn to read. Six of the seven get married and some achieve respectable public positions, and all proceed to lead mostly stable, peaceful lives.The main characters, the seven brothers, have individual traits which can be described by the following tropes: Juhani: The Leader, naturally since he is the eldest brother, but also agreed upon explicitly. Hair-Trigger Temper, but fortunately lends an ear to his more level-headed brothers, particularly Aapo. Aapo: The Smart Guy, often The Face, and also The Storyteller. Tuomas: The Big Guy, although all brothers are strong build. Simeoni: Token Religious Teammate. While all brothers are Christian, Simeoni takes it more seriously. Timo: The Ditz of the group, Literal-Minded. Lauri: The Quiet One, preferring solitary activities and sticking to his decisions. Eero: The Gadfly who likes to tease his older brothers.The work is regarded as the first novel in Finnish language, and it paved way for Finnish literature and realistic portrayal of Finnish people. As an important piece of national identity, the novel is still required school reading in Finnish secondary level education. It is now a public domain work, and various translations are currently available here.Unrelated to the movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. | |
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Proverbial Wisdom | |
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Proverbial Wisdom: Inverted. Timo tends to use lots of proverbs, but their relevancy and helpfulness is questionable at best. The Narrator describes a drunken argument where Timo enrages Juhani by arguing persistently with "proverbs, Bible verses, and lame parables". | |
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Heal It with Booze | |
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Heal It with Booze: After a fight, the brothers heal their wounds with a salve where spirits is one ingredient. | |
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Plot-Triggering Death | |
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The death of the brothers' mother in the beginning (also a Plot-Triggering Death) since the brothers realize they must begin taking care of the farm themselves. | |
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Alcohol-Induced Idiocy | |
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Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: After the brothers have begun farming, and making their own spirits from the grain (and drinking it), Simeoni and Eero are sent to the city to sell rye and spirits and buy high-quality food and drink so that the brothers can properly celebrate Michaelmas. They return over a week later, empty-handed, with all the money wasted on more liquor and pastries in the city, and with their horse suffering from lack of food. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Upon returning to their original home Jukola after ten years, the brothers decide to have a welcome party and to invite anyone they meet on the road. Trying to invite an old, hostile, deaf hermit results in one of the brothers getting punched and ultimately the invitation refused. | |
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Like Father, Like Son | |
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Like Father, Like Son: The brothers have inherited their late father's urge for hunting, along with the side-effect of neglecting the house and fields. | |
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Brutal Honesty | |
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Brutal Honesty: The drunken Lauri on the rock. | |
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Speech-Centric Work | |
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Speech-Centric Work: Partly, in that the story alternates between sections of narration and sections of uninterrupted dialogue, and often actions and events are described in character lines only. | |
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Real Dreams are Weirder | |
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Real Dreams are Weirder: Juhani recalls a dream he had, about seven eggs in a nest. The cock and hen died, the nest was attacked by rodents and the eggs were broken... and then the brothers themselves made scrambled eggs of the mess and ate it with pleasure, at which point Simeoni stops trying to interpret the dream. | |
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Catapult Nightmare | |
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Catapult Nightmare: Lauri bounds up from the ground when he wakes from his scary dream. | |
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Repeat After Me | |
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Repeat After Me: When the excited brothers believe they're being stalked by a real troll in the nightly woods, they want to banish it, and Simeoni whispers some exorcising words into Juhani's ear to shout. When Simeoni says that the troll shows no reaction, Juhani repeats that too, though stops halfway as he catches on. | |
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Agony of the Feet | |
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Agony of the Feet: The brothers must run barefoot through freezing-temperature snow to seek shelter after their Impivaara house burns down on Christmas night. | |
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The Storyteller | |
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The Storyteller: Aapo. The Narrator of the novel is also explicitly telling a story about the brothers. | |
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Improvised Weapon | |
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Improvised Weapon: Nearby wooden stakes are used as improvised weapons in some fights. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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The first Disproportionate Retribution example for Juhani. | |
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Flashback | |
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In the short childhood Flashback, where the brothers hide from punishment in the forest for days, sustained by stolen food, there are some efficient introductions: Juhani is carefree and enjoys the moment, though he knows what's coming at them, and dominates the discussion. Aapo is shown to be conciliatory and thinking ahead. Lauri, meanwhile, is quietly doing his own thing while the others chat. | |
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The Teetotaler | |
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The Teetotaler: Lauri sticks to his decision to never drink again after his drunken rant, which happens before the brothers start making their own booze. All other brothers, save Timo and Simeoni, abandon alcohol after settling down. | |
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Force Feeding | |
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Force Feeding: The brothers agree that the losers in their disc-hitting game will have to eat ten pounds of bull meat, during the days when they are already enjoying plenty of it. | |
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The Gadfly | |
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The Gadfly: Eero is fond of indirect insults particularly towards Juhani. | |
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Virgin-Shaming | |
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Virgin-Shaming: Implied in one line, where the drunken Lauri tells Simeoni that he would weep if he saw something that girls don't show to the likes of him. | |
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Savage Wolves | |
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Savage Wolves: A pack of wolves starts chasing the brothers as they escape from their burnt-down house. | |
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"The Hero Sucks" Song | |
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"The Hero Sucks" Song: The song sung by the men from Toukola, whose lyrics consist of insults towards the Jukola brothers. | |
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Massive Numbered Siblings | |
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Massive Numbered Siblings: The seven sons of Jukola. | |
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Beware the Quiet Ones | |
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Beware the Quiet Ones: Lauri. In the last brawl with Toukola men toward the end of the story, Lauri is described as the most fierce fighter, "pale as an angel of death", that no one can stand up to. Later, his wife also experiences that while the man can take a lot of nagging, his patience can give out, and then it is better to hide. | |
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Stern Teacher | |
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Stern Teacher: The church warden, though to the brothers he appears more like Sadist Teacher. In the end he confesses that he regrets being so hard and that he has been taught the same way himself. | |
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Sore Loser | |
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Sore Loser / Unsportsmanlike Gloating: Juhani displays both in the wresting during the Christmas evening, as he beats anyone up to the challenge, except for Tuomas. | |
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Corporal Punishment | |
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Corporal Punishment: Eero gets spanked at times by his older brothers when his jesting annoys them too much. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
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Establishing Character Moment: In the short childhood Flashback, where the brothers hide from punishment in the forest for days, sustained by stolen food, there are some efficient introductions: Juhani is carefree and enjoys the moment, though he knows what's coming at them, and dominates the discussion. Aapo is shown to be conciliatory and thinking ahead. Lauri, meanwhile, is quietly doing his own thing while the others chat. The first Disproportionate Retribution example for Juhani. Tuomas ultimately shows his lawfulness in that he is ready to throw the drunken Lauri down to the bulls, once Juhani says the word. Even Juhani himself is immediately shocked and joins the struggle to save Lauri. Tuomas is also one brother that Lauri actually said he likes in his drunken rant, so it's nothing personal, though Tuomas is clearly annoyed by Lauri's behaviour in general. | |
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Right for the Wrong Reasons | |
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Right for the Wrong Reasons: Juhani cites a legend which says that eating a certain legendary snake under the right conditions will allow a man to know his future. Eero adds that a variation of the ritual allows a man to know his past. Juhani dismisses this as childish and stupid, since that knowledge is obvious to anyone. Aapo notes that, although Eero was probably only jesting again, there is actually wisdom in there. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: A story about seven brothers. | |
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Dramatic Thunder | |
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Dramatic Thunder: When the brothers kill the whole herd of bulls to save their lives, the slaughter is started upon hearing a beginning thunder. It starts to rain when the animals are dead. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: When the brothers fell forest and burn it to make new farmland, they decide to do it on their own, without informing any owners of the neighboring lands. The fire gets out of control, and they have their hands full in preventing a full-blown forest fire. Timo finds a wolf caught in the brothers' trap pit, and decides to surprise the others with the catch. Timo puts ladders in the pit, and standing on them tries to club the wolf to death. However, the wolf evades him, and he has to fetch the others to help. The armed brothers arrive, but find no wolf in the pit, only the ladders left by Timo. | |
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Bears Are Bad News | |
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Bears Are Bad News: Inverted, as the Hunter Trapper brothers are bad news for bears, although they too know to treat this game with respect. Their father, too, killed over fifty bears during his lifetime, and when he was finally killed by one himself, it was a Mutual Kill. | |
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Pink Elephants | |
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Simeoni's drunken revelation and Lauri's dream encourage the brothers to quit with drinking and improve their ways. | |
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Stock Punishment | |
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Stock Punishment: The brothers are threatened with this, after breaking the church warden's window and insulting the vicar. | |
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In Vino Veritas | |
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In Vino Veritas: When the brothers are trapped by the angry bulls on the large rock, Lauri gets drunk, and then proceeds to give the others a taste of Brutal Honesty. | |
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Never My Fault | |
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Never My Fault: Early in the story, the brothers are sick of receiving unfriendly treatment, and fail to see their own action's influence on this. | |
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Revenge Before Reason | |
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Revenge Before Reason: After a fight resulting from an ambush by the Toukola gang, Juhani is bloodthirsty and bent to give back in kind, though Aapo suggests that now law will be on their side in the matter. | |
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Brutish Bulls | |
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Brutish Bulls: A hunting trip goes off the rails due to forty of these. | |
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Wake-Up Call | |
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Wake-Up Call: The death of the brothers' mother in the beginning (also a Plot-Triggering Death) since the brothers realize they must begin taking care of the farm themselves. Simeoni's drunken revelation and Lauri's dream encourage the brothers to quit with drinking and improve their ways. | |
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Gratuitous Greek | |
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Gratuitous Greek: The church warden in the end of his peace-making speech to the Jukola brothers and Toukola men. Stating that this reconciliation is the will of both God and himself, whosoever does not heed their word, "let them be anathema and maranatha and be scorched by the devils in hell". note "denounced" or "accursed", and "the Lord is coming" | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: Crops of two years in a row are lost to frost in the new farmlands of Impivaara. The brothers work to drain the nearby bog after both disasters. In the third year, even though cold nights occur, the frost doesn't hit. | |
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Heaven Above | |
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Heaven Above: At one point the brothers imagine their parents watching down from atop a cloud, and in general they take heaven rather literally. In the epilogue part of the story, when rain starts pouring down on Juhani working in the field, he shouts upwards whether they're only now spreading dung in heaven's fields when he's already harvesting the crop. | |
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Cycle of Revenge | |
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Cycle of Revenge: During the story, one emerges between the Jukola brothers and the men of Toukola, resulting in several injuries, but no loss of life. | |
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Forgiveness | |
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Forgiveness: Part of how the major conflicts are eventually solved. The local lay judge ensures that no court case is raised of the great fight at the auction, knowing the brothers are not solely at fault. The vicar, who initially was stern to get the brothers literate, eventually decides not to bother the brothers anymore, realizing it is a wasted and harmful effort, which leads the brothers to happily take the learning into their own hands. The church warden helps the brothers make peace with the Toukola men, ending their Cycle of Revenge. | |
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue | |
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The last chapter is dedicated to describing each brother's life after settling down. | |
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Rage Against the Heavens | |
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In the epilogue part of the story, when rain starts pouring down on Juhani working in the field, he shouts upwards whether they're only now spreading dung in heaven's fields when he's already harvesting the crop. | |
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Nested Story | |
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Nested Story: Aapo is often asked to tell stories to the others, and these are then told by The Narrator. The tales are often chilling in nature. | |
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Interrupted Suicide | |
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Interrupted Suicide: Juhani, when he believes prison is the only option. Simeoni tries to hang himself in the epilogue, but is rescued. | |
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TakingAThirdOption | |
Seven Brothers / int_c222dde4 | comment |
Taking a Third Option: When cornered on the rock by the angry bulls of Viertola estate, the brothers gradually lose their hope, since the bulls won't leave, and their cries for help are not heard. They face death by starvation if they stay on the rock, or death by mauling if they try to climb down. Finally it occurs to the brothers that they possess enough ammunition to kill every one of the animals. | |
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Satan | |
Seven Brothers / int_c3bafbce | comment |
Satan: Lucifer appears in Simeoni's drunken hallucinations. He has a tower made of boot-leather on the Moon. | |
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Strong Family Resemblance | |
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Strong Family Resemblance: The brothers are all described as having peculiarly brown skin and coarse hair. | |
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Rage Breaking Point | |
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Rage Breaking Point: The suppression part is not long, but at least the brothers try the first time when getting mocked by the Toukola gang. | |
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Settling the Frontier | |
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Settling the Frontier: Although the brothers' new Impivaara home is situated on Jukola property and not too far from civilization, they effectively live separated from others. Toward the end of the story, they turn vast areas of forest into farmland around the house. | |
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Gypsy Curse | |
Seven Brothers / int_d2c125f3 | comment |
Gypsy Curse: Early in the story, a gypsy woman angered by the brothers' taunts tells them their future: their house will burn down and they will have to fight bloodily against both beasts and men. Cue a House Fire, Savage Wolves, and a Cycle of Revenge. | |
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Denied Food as Punishment | |
Seven Brothers / int_d5b7a6e3 | comment |
Denied Food as Punishment: The church warden hopes to make the brothers learn their ABC books quicker this way. | |
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House Fire | |
Seven Brothers / int_d5bc2131 | comment |
House Fire: The brothers' first Impivaara house burns down, on a freezing Christmas night. | |
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The Cavalry | |
Seven Brothers / int_d9e9ad7e | comment |
The Cavalry: One-man version. Kyösti Tammisto takes the role in the brawl at the auction, when the brothers are outnumbered. | |
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Mistaken for Apocalypse | |
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Mistaken for Apocalypse: Waking up to a combination of thunder, lightning, and ringing of bells due to a fire in the village makes the brothers briefly think the hour has come. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
Seven Brothers / int_dc579c91 | comment |
Contrived Coincidence: In the beginning, The Narrator tells that prior to the book's events, when the lands were redistributed in the great partition, the farsighted founder of the Jukola farm had agreed to take a burnt-down forest, and this way had received more land than others. Seven times more, to be exact. The land is normal forest again when the brothers' story begins. | |
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Seven Brothers / int_dca97045 | type |
Just Following Orders | |
Seven Brothers / int_dca97045 | comment |
Just Following Orders: Several cases, when Juhani as The Leader commands. Tuomas is ready to kill Lauri for raising trouble on the brothers' narrow rock refuge. Timo's defence for heating the sauna so hot that it burns down during the night. Eero uses this justification for casting some ale onto the hot stones in the sauna, although Aapo and especially Tuomas are against it. | |
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Literal-Minded | |
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Literal-Minded: Timo is not good with figures of speech. | |
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Determinator | |
Seven Brothers / int_e567510d | comment |
Determinator: Learning to read as grown-up men and creating enough new farmland for seven men and their families takes a lot of time and sweat, but the brothers find the will in the end. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
Seven Brothers / int_e83f211c | comment |
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Lauri's drunken rant shocks the other brothers. | |
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Never Learned to Read | |
Seven Brothers / int_e9a3a1ed | comment |
Never Learned to Read: A part of what kicks off the plot progression. In the beginning, the brothers age from 17 to 25, and the vicar wants them to finally take the ABC book into their hands. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
Seven Brothers / int_f64a9cf7 | comment |
Earn Your Happy Ending: After a long period of running away from society, which turns out no good, the brothers turn to hard work to become respectable people. | |
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Insult Backfire | |
Seven Brothers / int_f6f2ff1 | comment |
Insult Backfire: When the drunken Lauri calls Timo a goat, Timo takes no offence, but rather thanks him for the compliment, because goat milk is good. | |
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Darkest Hour | |
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Darkest Hour: After having started a brawl at a public auction, the brothers expect imprisonment. Juhani in particular takes it hard, would kill himself if not physically restrained, and plans living as a wandering robber to avoid the law. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
Seven Brothers / int_fbd285b7 | comment |
Comically Missing the Point: Timo wonders how can the others believe Aapo's story about a fox and a bear, because animals can't talk. Juhani then explains to him that the story originates from an older time, when animals still could. When Simeoni shares his alcohol-induced revelation, which includes reading the Devil's personal greetings on a piece of leather, Juhani in particular gets anxious about this story, but Timo comments on that Simeoni has learned to read during the journey. | |
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Hunter Trapper | |
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Hunter Trapper: This is how the brothers live during the most of their Impivaara years. | |
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