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Tales From Dimwood Forest, also known as The Poppy Stories, are a series of books aimed at young adults by prolific author Avi, centering around the inhabitants of the titular forest.The first title published was Poppy, telling of the titular deer mouse and her family's troubles with the owl Mr. Ocax. After Ocax kills her fiance Ragweed, Poppy embarks on a quest to keep her family safe, befriending a porcupine named Ereth and freeing the forest of Mr. Ocax's extortionary reign in the process.From there, the series deals with the consequences of Ragweed's death for Poppy and his family, while beavers are destroying their home. Poppy gains a love interest in Ragweed's brother Rye. Later books include a prequel about Ragweed and A Day in the Limelight for Ereth.The full series includes: Poppy (1995) Poppy and Rye (1998) Ragweed (1999)note Chronologically, the first entry in the series Ereth's Birthday (2000) Poppy's Return (2005) Poppy and Ereth (2009) Ragweed and Poppy (2020) |
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Heroic BSoD |
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Heroic BSoD: Poppy's father, Lungwort, after Mr. Ocax presents him with a Sadistic Choice: let Poppy be killed by Ocax or have the rest of the mouse family starve. |
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Tempting Fate |
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Tempting Fate: Ragweed's last words: "Poppy, you may be my best girl, but admit it, you don't know how to live like I do." |
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Badass Adorable |
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Badass Adorable: Poppy is a deer mouse, making her cute by default. By the end of the first book, she also fights a great horned owl and wins, a feat that from her perspective would not be far off from slaying a dragon. |
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Cool Old Guy |
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Cool Old Guy: Ereth, once one gets over his abrasive mannerisms. Poppy eventually becomes one as she ages. |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Rye. |
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The Worf Effect |
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The Worf Effect: After doing the Big Damn Hero part in the previous two books he appeared in and generally being an irritable grump who does whatever and goes wherever he wants, Ereth is stalked and attacked by a fisher, the one predator that knows how to reliably hunt porcupines, in his own Day in the Limelight. |
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David Versus Goliath |
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David Versus Goliath: Whenever the mice go up against their much larger enemies. |
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Welcome to the Big City |
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Welcome to the Big City: Ragweed's installment. |
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Partially Civilized Animal |
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Partially Civilized Animal: The mice in particular are portrayed this way. They have somewhat human-like social structures, occasionally use tools (e.g.: weaponizing sticks and shed porcupine quills), and some individuals wear accessories, but their overall behavior and concerns still reflect the fact that they are mice. |
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Chekhov's Gun |
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Chekhov's Gun: The water hose in Ragweed. The block of salt in Poppy. The boulder the mice move under in Poppy and Rye. The traps set by the trappers in Ereth's Birthday. Ragweed's earring in Poppy and Ereth. |
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Generation Xerox |
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Generation Xerox: Ragweed Jr. Later on, his son Spruce. |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: The beavers pretend to be friendly and understanding, but actually care only about expanding their lake. |
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Carnivore Confusion |
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Carnivore Confusion: The series generally takes the "predation is a fact of life" approach. Interestingly, predators portrayed as being villainous often spin a variation on this, holding grudges against and manipulating specific individuals, and tend to have other agendas besides satisfying their hunger (speciesist prejudice, for one). |
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Villainous Gentrification |
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Villainous Gentrification: The beavers' dam and pond, which flood out the Brook's other animal residents (in particular its golden mouse community) and force them to move. The planned beaver lodges are even named "Canad's Cute Condos". |
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A Lizard Named "Liz" |
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A Lizard Named "Liz": Marty the Fisher's name may have been inspired by the scientific name of his species (Martes pennanti) at the time Ereth's Birthday was written. The fisher is now classified in the genus Pekania. |
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Dead Guy Junior |
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Dead Guy Junior: Ragweed Jr. |
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Explosive Breeder |
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Explosive Breeder: The mice, duh. Poppy and Rye themselves have eleven children between them, and that's probably on the low end, so their extended families number into the high dozens or even the hundreds, evident whenever any extended family gathering or meeting is called. |
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Official Couple |
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Official Couple: Rye and Poppy. |
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Foregone Conclusion |
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Foregone Conclusion: Since Rye was introduced as Poppy's husband in the final chapter of Poppy, the reader knows he and Poppy will fall in love in Poppy and Rye. |
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Blithe Spirit |
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Blithe Spirit: Ragweed formerly served as this while with Poppy's family. |
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Parental Substitute |
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Parental Substitute: Ereth unwillingly serves as one for three fox kits for some time. |
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Bat Out of Hell |
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Bat Out of Hell: Subverted by the bats in Poppy and Ereth. They are often thought of as being unpleasant by other animals, but prove to be friendly and end up saving the day. |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Ereth, big time. |
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Intergenerational Friendship |
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Intergenerational Friendship: Poppy and Ereth. Of course, Poppy, being a mouse, ages quickly and is quite old herself by the end of the series. |
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Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome |
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Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Ragweed in Poppy, Rye in Poppy and Ereth. |
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Improvised Weapon |
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Improvised Weapon: Ereth already uses his quills as weapons, but the mice make use of his shed ones as well. They also use sticks, stones, and mud in the battle against the beavers. |
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The Dragon |
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The Dragon: Graybar for Silversides. |
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Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated |
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Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Poppy in Poppy and Ereth. |
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Snow Means Death |
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Snow Means Death: In Ereth's Birthday, Leaper, the vixen, who dies as a result of getting caught in a human hunters' steel trap, in the middle of a harsh winter. She already lost a lot of blood when Ereth happens upon her. Ereth himself nearly gets killed by Marty the Fisher if not for Leaper's kits (whom she asked him to care for) saving him. |
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Cats Are Mean |
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Cats Are Mean: Played with in Ragweed. The villainess and The Dragon are cats with an agenda of destroying all mice, but when they try to recruit followers the rest of the city's cats aren't interested in joining them. Averted in Poppy. Our heroine has a brief but friendly conversation with George the cat, getting some vital information from him. George is much too old to hunt, so he might have been more dangerous as a young cat, but given the tone of the series there was likely nothing malicious about it. |
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Enemy Mine |
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Enemy Mine: Bounder and Poppy in Poppy and Ereth. |
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Heel–Face Turn |
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Heel–Face Turn: Blinker. Not that he was ever malicious to begin with. |
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Final Exam Finale |
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Final Exam Finale: Poppy and Ereth. |
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Her Heart Will Go On |
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Her Heart Will Go On: Ragweed for Poppy. |
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A Death in the Limelight |
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A Death in the Limelight: Narrowly averted for Ereth. |
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Meaningful Name |
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Meaningful Name: Almost everyone. The forest mice tend to be named after plants that symbolize their personalities while the city mice are named after car parts. Several characters (notably Ereth) have names derived directly from their species' scientific names. |
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Babies Ever After |
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Babies Ever After: In the final chapter of Poppy, Poppy is revealed to have had children with Rye. |
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And the Adventure Continues |
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And the Adventure Continues: The ending to Poppy and Ereth. |
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Deuteragonist |
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Deuteragonist: Rye is this to Poppy in Poppy and Rye. |
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Animal Talk |
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Animal Talk: Most of the animals can talk with each other, but not with humans. |
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Smelly Skunk |
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Smelly Skunk: Mephitis. |
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Satellite Love Interest |
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Satellite Love Interest: Played straight and subverted with Rye. It's played straight in that his very first appearance is in the last chapter of Poppy, where he's introduced in only the final few pages as Poppy's husband and the father of her children, with nothing known about him beyond that, but it's subverted in Poppy and Rye, where he gets a personality and backstory. |
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Interspecies Romance |
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Interspecies Romance: Poppy (a deer mouse) and Ragweed, and later Rye (both golden mice). |
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Second Love |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_85ca9dab |
comment |
Second Love: Rye is this for Poppy. |
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Plucky Girl |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_85debad9 |
comment |
Plucky Girl: Poppy. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_8786b01b |
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Vehicular Theme Naming |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_8786b01b |
comment |
Vehicular Theme Naming: The city mice are named after car parts. |
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Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_88359b23 |
comment |
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Clutch and Blinker. |
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Bears Are Bad News |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_8d718b9e |
comment |
Bears Are Bad News: A bear and its cub briefly threaten Poppy in Poppy's Return. |
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Ominous Owl |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_93decddf |
comment |
Ominous Owl: Mr. Ocax the great horned owl is the Big Bad of the first book. |
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Big Bad |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_970c790a |
comment |
Big Bad: Mr. Ocax in Poppy, Castor Canad in Poppy and Rye, Silversides in Ragweed, and Marty in Ereth's Birthday. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_9723a8b8 |
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Floral Theme Naming |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_9723a8b8 |
comment |
Floral Theme Naming: The forest mice are all named after plants. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_97d54bb0 |
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Tragic Keepsake |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_97d54bb0 |
comment |
Tragic Keepsake: Ragweed's earring. Which ironically belonged to Clutch, but Poppy never finds that out. |
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type |
Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior! |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_9820c37a |
comment |
Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: Ereth. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_9ae8eea9 |
type |
Character Tics |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_9ae8eea9 |
comment |
Character Tics: Poppy's mother, Sweet Cicely, is mentioned to have one in that she constantly flicks at her ears "as if they were dusty." |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_9c8701b5 |
type |
A Day in the Limelight |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_9c8701b5 |
comment |
A Day in the Limelight: Ereth's Birthday for Ereth. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_a0db7803 |
type |
It's Personal |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_a0db7803 |
comment |
It's Personal: Marty the fisher doesn't like most porcupines, but considers Ereth the most obnoxious of them all. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_a1154544 |
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Grumpy Old Man |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_a1154544 |
comment |
Grumpy Old Man: Ereth. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_a1e5faab |
type |
Doomed by Canon |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_a1e5faab |
comment |
Doomed by Canon: Ragweed. Particularly jarring for those who start the series with Ragweed, since he dies in the first couple pages of Poppy. |
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Cool Sword |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_a6275bef |
comment |
Cool Sword: The quill Poppy gets from Ereth functions as a rapier; she even wears it around her waist on a grass belt. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_a823fa03 |
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The Un-Smile |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_a823fa03 |
comment |
The Unsmile: The perpetually-unsmiling Ereth, naturally, when he forces himself to smile in the run-up to Poppy's (supposed) funeral service. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_ab497c22 |
type |
Predators Are Mean |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_ab497c22 |
comment |
Predators Are Mean: Other than the beavers, all the antagonists are predators of the main characters. Interestingly though, said antagonists tend to have other personal reasons for harming the heroes besides just hunger. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_acecb17d |
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Chekhov's Skill |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_acecb17d |
comment |
Chekhov's Skill: Blinker's experience with running on a wheel. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_ad641426 |
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Trademark Favorite Food |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_ad641426 |
comment |
Trademark Favorite Food: Salt for Ereth. Truth in Television; porcupines are crazy about salt. |
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Feathered Fiend |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_b42e16fb |
comment |
Feathered Fiend: Mr. Ocax. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_b5f7b739 |
type |
Evil Overlooker |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_b5f7b739 |
comment |
Evil Overlooker: Most of the books feature the villain at the top of the cover. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_bb18a227 |
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It's All About Me |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_bb18a227 |
comment |
It's All About Me: Ereth often comes off as this and often has thoughts and rants that reinforce it, even despite his friendship with Poppy and his helping her and her loved ones out. This really takes off when he derails the eulogy planned for Poppy's funeral by making his short remarks about her … long and quite blatant remarks about himself; of course, it could be his grief coping mechanism. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_c23525d4 |
type |
Character Title |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_c23525d4 |
comment |
Character Title: Poppy, Poppy and Rye, Ragweed, Poppy and Ereth. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_c33ba0a8 |
type |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_c33ba0a8 |
comment |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Mephitis isn't even mentioned in the last book. |
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Freudian Excuse |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_c868a42a |
comment |
Freudian Excuse: Marty the fisher's entire family was killed by human hunters, and he despises porcupines because of their perceived Lack of Empathy for the problems of others. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_ca2608c5 |
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Wicked Weasel |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_ca2608c5 |
comment |
Wicked Weasel: Though not quite a weasel, Marty the Fisher is a villainous mustelid. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_ce6555f0 |
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Lighter and Softer |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_ce6555f0 |
comment |
Lighter and Softer: The last two books have no true villain. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_d848560f |
type |
Unusual Euphemism |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_d848560f |
comment |
Unusual Euphemism: Ereth supplies an infinite number of these in his frequent rants. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_d9e9ad7e |
type |
The Cavalry |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_d9e9ad7e |
comment |
The Cavalry: The bats in Poppy and Ereth. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_dae5c997 |
type |
Action Girl |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_dae5c997 |
comment |
Action Girl: Poppy learns to defend herself from much larger opponents by using weapons (namely Ereth's shed quills). |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_dcbe8a6e |
type |
Chekhov's Gunman |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_dcbe8a6e |
comment |
Chekhov's Gunman: The fox that chases Poppy into Ereth's log in the first book gets a name (Bounder) and a larger role in Ereth's Birthday and Poppy and Ereth. The bats in Poppy and Ereth. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_e0ecc959 |
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Changed My Mind, Kid |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_e0ecc959 |
comment |
Changed My Mind, Kid: Ereth in Poppy and Rye. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_e25ff7 |
type |
The City |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_e25ff7 |
comment |
The City: Amperville, the human city setting of Ragweed. Its mouse population unsurprisingly lives in what to its humans is the ghetto or run-down part of town. |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_e25ff7 |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_e38c6149 |
type |
Settle for Sibling |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_e38c6149 |
comment |
Settle for Sibling: Poppy eventually marries Rye, Ragweed's younger brother. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_e3c36782 |
type |
Call-Forward |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_e3c36782 |
comment |
Call-Forward: In Ragweed, the titular mouse is told that Dimwood Forest is a nice place, but he should look out for owls. It's noted that he wasn't paying attention. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_e3ebcc2d |
type |
Animal Jingoism |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_e3ebcc2d |
comment |
Animal Jingoism: Some of the predators hold speciesist prejudices against mice as a secondary or supporting reason for killing or eating them; Silversides the cat, for one, hates mice for their habits, boldness, and the way they've—in her view—come to "own" the city (and even the human house) she grew up in. It's to this end she and Graybar form a Klan-esque club to terrorise and kill as many city mice as they can manage, though no other city cats show interest. |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_e3ebcc2d |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_e4c89b67 |
type |
Attending Your Own Funeral |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_e4c89b67 |
comment |
Attending Your Own Funeral: Poppy in Poppy and Ereth does so to show that she is actually alive. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_e70127 |
type |
The Mole |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_e70127 |
comment |
The Mole: Silversides forces Blinker to be one. Naturally, he isn't comfortable with it and does a Heel–Face Turn later. |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_e70127 |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_eb81c601 |
type |
Big Damn Heroes |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_eb81c601 |
comment |
Big Damn Heroes: Ereth, frequently. The fox kits save him in Ereth's Birthday. Mephitis saves Poppy from a bear in Poppy's Return. |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_eb81c601 |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_efd11fe3 |
type |
A Dog Named "Dog" |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_efd11fe3 |
comment |
A Dog Named "Dog": Ereth's full name (Erethizon Dorsatum) is the scientific name of his species. Other examples include Castor P. Canad (from Castor canadensis), Mephitis (from Mephitis mephitis), and Lucifugus Myotis (from Myotis lucifugus). |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_efd11fe3 |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_f0c4ce7d |
type |
The Lost Lenore |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_f0c4ce7d |
comment |
The Lost Lenore: Ragweed is a male example of this to Poppy. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_f42f96fa |
type |
Would Hit a Girl |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_f42f96fa |
comment |
Would Hit a Girl: Mr. Ocax has no qualms with trying to kill Poppy. Nor does Bounder. Which is to be expected, as they are predators and food is food regardless of what gender it is. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_f63dbaf0 |
type |
Xenophobic Herbivore |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_f63dbaf0 |
comment |
Xenophobic Herbivore: Speciesism in the series is hardly limited to its predators, as Lungwort's ill-informed, irrational, hatred or fear of porcupines as supposed quill-shooting mouse-eaters also attests. Then there's Ereth, of course; while he's already curmudgeonly towards nearly everyone, he particularly despises hunters and predators (especially ever since befriending Poppy), the fox kits he ends up babysitting being a rare exception. |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_f909b16b |
type |
Dark Secret |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_f909b16b |
comment |
Dark Secret: Mr. Ocax is afraid of porcupines and the fake owl at New House. He lies to the mice about porcupines being bloodthirsty predators and stops them from moving to New House to prevent them from finding this out (and thus discovering ways to protect themselves from him). |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_f909b16b |
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Distressed Dude |
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Distressed Dude: Rye is held hostage by the beavers for most of the climax in Poppy and Rye. |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_f9e16ef |
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1.0 |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_f9e16ef |
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| | Tales from Dimwood Forest |
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Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_f9e16ef |
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Theme Naming |
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Theme Naming: The forest mice tend to be named after plants, whereas the city mice are named after car parts. The villains tend to be named after the Latin name of their species. |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_fd94c4ac |
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1.0 |
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Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_fd94c4ac |
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Shown Their Work |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_ffad4e9f |
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Shown Their Work: The animals' habits and appearances are portrayed extremely accurately. |
| | Tales from Dimwood Forest / int_ffad4e9f |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
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