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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm

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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	comment	A 1995 Newbery Honor Book, The Ear, the Eye and the Armnote (No, there is not a comma missing there) is a novel by Nancy Farmer set in Zimbabwe 200 years in the future.Tendai and his siblings Rita and Kuda have lived a sheltered life and have a strained relationship with their father, the renowned General Matsika. Thus, with the aid of their caretaker, the Mellower, they sneak out of the house...and into a whole lot of trouble, getting themselves kidnapped. Meanwhile, the Matsika parents are frantic with worry, so the Mellower suggests hiring some detectives he has heard of - the Ear, the Eye, and the Arm. As the Matsika children struggle to survive, the detectives race to find them before it's too late.Most notable for its heavy exploration of African myths and traditions, something that normally never appears in Western fiction.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_121865ac	type	Noble Savage
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_121865ac	comment	Noble Savage: Resthaven is a cultural preserve where a select few live the life of pre-colonial Africans. Serves as a deconstruction as the initially idyllic lifestyle is shown to be full of sexism, superstition, and child murder; it's explicitly stated such a culture can only exist as a whole and you can't pick and choose only the "good" parts..
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: General Matsika starts out as part of this for all his children (especially with Tendai). As you might guess, it doesn't work out very well for him.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Several of the myths, historic figures/events, and elements of modern (i.e. 1990s) African life are discussed further in a short appendix and glossary.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_187bddc1	type	Religion of Evil
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_187bddc1	comment	Religion of Evil: The Masks.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_1902e67d	type	I Am Very British
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_1902e67d	comment	I Am Very British: The Mellower's mother, a.k.a. Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_2123cbe8	type	Afrofuturism
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_2123cbe8	comment	Afrofuturism: The book is set in Zimbabwe in the year 2194.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good is Not Nice: First and foremost, General Matsika, but also Myanda (who is herself a former criminal), as well as the mhondoro spirit who possesses Arm near the book's climax. Averted with the detectives themselves, who are surprisingly soft-hearted compared to their Western counterparts—but then again, before the Matsikas came along, a lot of their cases involved "sneaky husbands".
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_24c6f22e	type	Trash of the Titans
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_24c6f22e	comment	Trash of the Titans: The Dead Man's Vlei — an abandoned toxic waste dump — is spacious enough to house an entire colony of scavengers, and so deep that slaves mine for salvage.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Masks, however, remain The Dreaded themselves, despite the general's best efforts. Their Establishing Character Moment is the bombing of a supermarket, and their motives (assuming they have any) remain a mystery. By the time we find out who they really are, and whom they serve, it's not at all hard to believe.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_2e49d2b1	type	Butt-Dialing Mordor
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_2e49d2b1	comment	Butt-Dialing Mordor: Psychic powers and eldritch abominations make a bad combination.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_317f259c	type	Urban Hellscape
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_317f259c	comment	Urban Hellscape: Toxic slums, borderline-Privately Owned Society, food shortages... an excellent example from the trope's heyday in the mid-90s.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Rita mentions that despite being their captor, at least She-Elephant made sure that the kids had enough to eat (and despite where she lives, she's quite the cook). Whereas in Resthaven, Rita gets burned with peanuts for taking a bit of food for herself. For most of the book, the She Elephant is also perfectly happy to sell the children to the Masks. When she finds out their true intentions, and when they alter the deal for good measure, she throws down.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_368c1306	type	The Men First
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_368c1306	comment	The Men First: Implied that this is part of General Matsika's professional standards. By the end, Tendai develops similar beliefs.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_3862fa01	type	Ludd Was Right
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_3862fa01	comment	Ludd Was Right: This is one of the main viewpoints of the residents of Resthaven.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_38a57680	type	Flying Car
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_38a57680	comment	Flying Car: It's the future, folks. Flying vehicles are everywhere.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Arm's telepathy grows in strength as the book progresses, making him more sensitive to what other people are feeling nearby, and thus making it harder for him to function around other people. Luckily for him, he loses his telepathy due to what the Gondwannan gods do to him. Eye and Ear have similar issues with their own abilities. In addition to typical Sensory Overload and the disfiguring nature of their mutations, Eye is treated to a perpetual Gross Up Closeup of everything around him (and sunlight isn't his favorite thing either), while Ear's eponymous attributes are extremely delicate: at one point he suffers an excrutiating tear when he unfurls them in extreme winds.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_3f28ec84	type	The Wall Around the World
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_3f28ec84	comment	The Wall Around the World: In Zimbabwe in 2194, Resthaven is a large preserve that has been set aside where a select few live in the Good Old Ways of pre-colonial Africa. It's large enough to hold at least a couple villages with their livestock and agriculture, and surrounded by an enormous wall to block out the sights and sounds of the modern world, mirrored on the inside to give the impression of going on forever. The residents call the wall "the edge of the world" and aren't even curious what's on the other side, knowing it only as Mwari's country.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Suspecting that the detectives don't have suitable formal wear, mother gives them each a dashiki; she says that the dashikis were given to the General as a gift, and he never accepts gifts to avoid the appearance of taking bribes. The detectives note how unlikely it is that the general was gifted three dashikis that fit the detectives perfectly, including one with matching earmuffs, but are grateful nonetheless.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: The Cow's Guts slum, where the detectives live and base their business.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The kids are saved from becoming a sacrifice, the family soothsayer's mother serves community service for her extortion plot, but although she saved the day, the She Elephant still has to serve some jail time for her crimes.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Because Resthaven is deep-rooted in tradition, they don't just call the authorities to let them know kidnapped children are with them. The kids even lampshade that surely someone has come looking for them.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_4536fd29	type	Energy Weapon
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_4536fd29	comment	Energy Weapon: Laser guns are illegal weapons in the future, used solely by criminals (and those with diplomatic immunity). In a subversion of most fictional lasers, a character actually does get temporarily blinded by looking at one.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_4540f0b9	type	Mistaken for Dying
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_4540f0b9	comment	Mistaken for Dying: After escaping Resthaven Rita falls seriously ill and Tendai fears for her life, knowing she could have caught any number of dangerous diseases that have been eradicated in 2194. It turns out she did catch an extinct disease — Chicken Pox.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Most of the inhabitants of Resthaven, as long as it's a girl. It's also their practice to kill one of the babies if twins are born. Another version of this crops up at the climax. The mouth of the Big-Head Mask is lined with very small teeth, and the children are to be tortured to death.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Sekai, in the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_4f6cf75	type	Mirroring Factions
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_4f6cf75	comment	Mirroring Factions: Although the Gondwannans are Zimbabwe's historical enemies and blamed for everything from locusts to headaches, Tendai surmises that they probably carry on boring lives exactly the same as the Zimbabweans. Horribly subverted when it turns out that they actually carry out Human Sacrifice by way of Cold-Blooded Torture in order to appease their Eldritch Abomination gods. A more straight example seems to be the opposing tribe in Resthaven, who engage in fist-fights with Tendai's group as a coming of age rite but are presumably virtually identical to Garikayi's tribe.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: When Rita steals some food while the siblings are in Resthaven, guess what her punishment is? They heat peanuts with coals and use them to burn her chest. Made even worse by the fact that she didn't know she was stealing; she ate because she was hungry, and didn't realize she had to ask.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Played straight, although the plot comes very close to averting this on a few occasions.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_55d33017	type	Sheltered Aristocrat
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_55d33017	comment	Sheltered Aristocrat: Tendai and his siblings are the children of a high-ranking government official who keeps them mostly confined to their house to protect them from his many enemies. When they finally leave, they are ill-equipped to deal with the real world.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_586624e5	type	Genius Loci
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_586624e5	comment	Many key cultural terms (most prominently the mhondoro) are left untranslated—along with loanwords from Afrikaans, Portuguese, and a few other languages to keep things interesting.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: The Masks did not count on She-Elephant's Heel–Face Turn.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_617f0563	comment	Averted by the She Elephant, who ends up doing some jail time for her crimes despite her eventual Heel–Face Turn.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_685baef8	type	Decade Dissonance
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_685baef8	comment	Decade Dissonance: In 2194 there is Resthaven, which is an independent country with people who live their life in the Good Old Ways.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_776a06eb	type	All Myths Are True
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_776a06eb	comment	All Myths Are True: The ancient African myths are very real and drive a lot of the story.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_77a5657	type	Lovecraftian Superpower
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_77a5657	comment	Lovecraftian Superpower: Downplayed in the titular characters, but their powers are derived from physical mutations, and their appearances are very unsettling to others. Eye's eyes are bulbous and protruding, Ear's ears are huge and mobile (to the point where he can fold them to focus on a point like an animal's ears or curl them up for storage), Arm's namesakes are of the Creepy Long variety with (slightly adhesive) Fingers and legs to match.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_78f31439	type	CommonplaceRare
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_78f31439	comment	Commonplace Rare: Plastics. Nobody really misses them, but plastic artifacts can be quite valuable as antiques to the right buyer.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: The Mellower, still unable to get over his abusive My Beloved Smother.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_8437cb10	type	Made a Slave
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_8437cb10	comment	Made a Slave: The children are temporarily forced to mine plastic in the Dead Man's Vlei while the She Elephant arranges to sell them into more permanent slavery.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: The Mellower has a mild case, but Arm fell out of that particular tree and hit every branch on the way down. He loses some of them at the end, but he's not entirely ungrateful. See Blessed with Suck, as well as...
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_8774fb47	comment	Another version of this crops up at the climax. The mouth of the Big-Head Mask is lined with very small teeth, and the children are to be tortured to death.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_90965cc7	type	Hive Mind
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_90965cc7	comment	Hive Mind: The mutant inhabitants of Dead Man's Vlei are hinted to be this. They don't like outsiders.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_93c04c8a	type	Future Food Is Artificial
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_93c04c8a	comment	Future Food Is Artificial: An algae described as "pond scum" which is "pressed into the shape of hot dogs, etc.".
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_a5a6d7b3	type	Mutants
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_a5a6d7b3	comment	Mutants: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm are from a village whose water source was tainted with radiation; their pregnant mothers drank the water, leading to their unique abilities. The people of the Dead Man's Vlei develop into a sort of shambling hive mind due to prolonged exposure to the toxic environment.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The Mellower's mother. She hides the fact that she has Matsika's children in the hopes that he will eventually offer a reward that she can collect. This delay gives the She Elephant time to track them down, re-kidnap them, and sell them to the Masks, which almost results in their death by torture. Her consequence? 1000 hours of community service. Averted by the She Elephant, who ends up doing some jail time for her crimes despite her eventual Heel–Face Turn.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Happens to Arm near the end of the book.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_a8c462db	type	Super-Senses
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_a8c462db	comment	Super-Senses: Eye and Ear each have one super sense. Go on, guess what they are.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Rita, when she wants to be. It gets her into trouble a lot. The narration itself tends toward the bone-dry at times, although it's pretty understated compared to Rita.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: Tendai and his siblings, having no clue how to adapt to life outside their house.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_b1033d4a	type	Maniac Monkeys
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_b1033d4a	comment	Maniac Monkeys: The Blue Monkey, a genetically engineered Talking Animal. He's a jerk.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: For Tendai.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_b26477dc	type	Reactive Continuous Scream
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_b26477dc	comment	Reactive Continuous Scream: Arm and Sekai accidentally get into a psychic version of this at one point. It nearly breaks them both.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_b2c20efd	type	Abandon the Disabled
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_b2c20efd	comment	Abandon the Disabled: Trashman was abandoned by his mother because of his profound intellectual disability. The people of Resthaven have given him shelter, but still keep him at arm's length, believing that he might attract malevolent spirits.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_b51128fa	type	Gilded Cage
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_b51128fa	comment	Gilded Cage: How Tendai, Rita, and Kuda view their mansion. Despite having every comfort, they resent the fact that they're rarely allowed to leave.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_b55698cd	type	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_b55698cd	comment	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Tendai doesn't enjoy his martial arts training and isn't particularly good at it, but he's easily the best fighter out of the youth in Resthaven.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: The Mellower's mother.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Touches on all the characters, even the minor ones.
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_b77808f2	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Although the Gondwannans are Zimbabwe's historical enemies and blamed for everything from locusts to headaches, Tendai surmises that they probably carry on boring lives exactly the same as the Zimbabweans. Horribly subverted when it turns out that they actually carry out Human Sacrifice by way of Cold-Blooded Torture in order to appease their Eldritch Abomination gods.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_c66f2bb5	type	Witch Hunt
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_c66f2bb5	comment	Witch Hunt: In Resthaven, after the twins are born. A very literal and very unpleasant example—even though the ancestor spirit who possesses the nganga prevents him from framing Tendai as he was planning to do. Instead, the "evidence" points to Myanda, whose fate is left unspecified.
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_c66f2bb5	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The "decorations" at the Masks' shrine...as well as the eyes of the Big-Head Mask. It's never stated clearly how a mask's eyes can "open", or show hunger as a sacrifice is prepared—but then again, it may be better left unspecified.
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_cdfe12c3	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_d0447c7b	type	Lightning Gun
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_d0447c7b	comment	Lightning Gun: The Soul Stealers.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Mellower. Tendai ends up feeling vaguely guilty for not knowing the real name of the person who essentially raised them; Kuda, on the other hand insists that the Mellower doesn't have a name.
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_d7b34c31	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: Most of the characters speak chiShona unless otherwise specified. At one point, Tendai finds an antique glass bottle with English labeling, and has to work a little to translate it. Many key cultural terms (most prominently the mhondoro) are left untranslated—along with loanwords from Afrikaans, Portuguese, and a few other languages to keep things interesting.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: Trashman is an example of this. Kuda is the only one who can (supposedly) understand him. The Mellower has elements of this, too.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Myanda. She's married to one of Resthaven's elders, but they have no children, and she names Sekai after a former "girlfriend" from when she lived on the outside (She's also very fond of her husband's other wife, Chipo, who is Sekai's mother, but that may be more due to Big Sister Instinct).
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_e3bd3475	type	Stock "Yuck!"
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_e3bd3475	comment	Stock "Yuck!": Parsnips, apparently.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_e743ffa9	type	Good Old Ways
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_e743ffa9	comment	Good Old Ways: Deconstructed with Resthaven. It's a natural preserve of pristine beauty, and it's a very good place to live - if you're a man. If you're a girl, you can look forward to polygamy and drudgery for the rest of your life, and if twins are born, one of the twins will be killed. Yes, probably the girl. A character who left the modern world to live in Resthaven acknowledges both the good and bad aspects, and that you can't have one without the other.
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_e743ffa9	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: The detectives pull this in Resthaven. Arm also attempts to pull this at the book's climax, but that doesn't work out. Instead, it's the She Elephant who ends up breaking the power of the Masks—literally, over her knee.
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_eb81c601	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She-Elephant does pull a Heel–Face Turn when realizing the children are going to be sacrificed. The thing is that she kidnapped them in the first place, which set the whole plot into motion. Thus, she is sentenced to some jail time because the father is definitely pressing charges for endangering his children.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_f42f96fa	comment	Most of the inhabitants of Resthaven, as long as it's a girl. It's also their practice to kill one of the babies if twins are born.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: This trope feels the love. The three detectives, the Mellower, the She-Elephant, Knife and Fist, Trashman...
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_fec81854	type	Sensory Overload
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_fec81854	comment	Eye and Ear have similar issues with their own abilities. In addition to typical Sensory Overload and the disfiguring nature of their mutations, Eye is treated to a perpetual Gross Up Closeup of everything around him (and sunlight isn't his favorite thing either), while Ear's eponymous attributes are extremely delicate: at one point he suffers an excrutiating tear when he unfurls them in extreme winds.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_ff055287	type	Star Scraper
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_ff055287	comment	Star Scraper: The Mile-High Macllwaine, which lives up to it's name. Stated to be less of a building and more of a self-contained, vertical city within the larger Harare metroplex.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The depictions of African traditional culture and mythology are very thorough.
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The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Afrofuturism / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Children's Literature / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	City in a Bottle / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Comfort Food / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Creepily Long Arms / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Culture Justifies Anything / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Decade Dissonance / int_995158f0
EarthAbides	seeAlso	The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Garlic Is Abhorrent / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Lamarck Was Right / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Last Fertile Region / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Lightning Gun / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Mutant Media / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Mutants / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Not What I Signed on For / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Offerings to the Gods / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	One Twin Must Die / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Post-Peak Oil / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Primal Fear / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Reactive Continuous Scream / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Sensor Character / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Super-Hearing / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Super-Senses / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Superpower Russian Roulette / int_995158f0
The Ear The Eye And The Arm	seeAlso	The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	The Wall Around the World / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Unabashed B-Movie Fan / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Urban Hellscape / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_995158f0
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm	hasFeature	Your Mom / int_995158f0

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