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The Duppy

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Duppy (pronounced "duh-py") is a novel by Jamaican author Anthony Winkler, published in 1997.Taddeus Augustus Baps, shopkeeper, unexpectedly drops dead one Saturday morning, and finds himself having turned into a duppy (the Jamaican term for ghost). Hilarity Ensues as he discovers that a lot of things he'd been taught about the afterlife are wrong, with Heaven being suspiciously like Jamaica in terms of environment...
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 Baps himself later becomes one briefly, even creating a world as part of an experiment agreed to by God. Hilarity Ensues.
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 The Atoner
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 The Atoner: Baps eventually becomes this.
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 Back from the Dead
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 Back from the Dead / Reincarnation: As Miss B. explains to Baps, at random times a person who’s been in Heaven long enough will experience being “born again,” meaning they get sent back to Earth as a newborn in order to maintain the population of Earth – a kind of reincarnation. It’s later revealed that the philosopher has died, come to Heaven, and been sent back to Earth three times this way, but has never realized it each time due to his Arbitrary Skepticism. Baps eventually gets to go back to Earth at the end of the novel by being returned to life by God at the moment of his first death.
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 Abusive Parents
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 Abusive Parents: Baps laments to God that he had a wicked aunt who used to beat him in order to make him learn his Bible properly.
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 The atheistic philosopher, who up to this point has refused to believe that he’s really dead and in heaven, briefly comes to this conclusion about himself, much to Baps's anger.
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 A God Am I
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 A God Am I: Two examples, one played for comedy and one for drama. The atheistic philosopher, who up to this point has refused to believe that he’s really dead and in heaven, briefly comes to this conclusion about himself, much to Baps's anger. Baps himself later becomes one briefly, even creating a world as part of an experiment agreed to by God. Hilarity Ensues.
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