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The Emigrants

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The Emigrants	comment	A novel suite by Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg, considered among the finest pieces of Swedish literature. The books have been translated into more than twenty languages, including English. The series consists of four books: The Emigrants The Immigrants (also published in English under the title Unto a Good Land) The Settlers The Last Letter HomeThe suite tells the story of a group of people who became the first in their parish to move from Sweden to the United States during the mid-19th century. They emigrate for a variety of reasons; some to find gold and become rich, some to avoid religious persecution, some to get away from stigmas that follow them in their home parish. But the main focus in the books lies on a family that emigrates to escape poverty.Karl Oskar and Kristina are a young married couple with an ever growing family who cannot make do on what little farm land they own. Their debt keeps growing, their crops keep failing and their situation keeps getting more desperate. Karl Oskar is very eager to move to America where they can farm as much land as they want and prosper from their hard work but Kristina doesn't want to go. She doesn't want to subject their children to the risks involved, pointing out that they don't know for sure what will happen in America or if they will even get any farm land there. She also reminds her husband that if they move they leave behind everything and everyone and will never get to see their parents, siblings and friends again. But when their oldest child dies from starvation Kristina agrees to move. Coming with them is Karl Oskar's brother Robert, his friend Arvid, Kristina's uncle Danjel and his family, the former town whore Ulrika and her daughter Elin, and Karl Oskar and Kristina's neighbour Jonas Petter.The four books chronicle the group's journey across the Atlantic, their travels across America until they find a place they can settle down and how they build a new community in the New Land. The large cast of characters allows Moberg to explore several different versions of the dream of the New Land, such as Robert's pursuit of gold and Danjel's desire to freely practice his religious beliefs, but the heart and focus of the story stays with Karl Oskar and Kristina. Karl Oskar loves his new home and all the opportunities it brings, the perfect example of a happy immigrant. Kristina on the other hand never grows to like America and spends her life longing back to Sweden, the perfect example of an unhappy immigrant.The series has a lot of gut-wrenching moments, with many tragedies befalling the various characters. It gives an honest portrayal of life in the mid-19th century and lets you get to know the characters really well. It is also very funny at times, with some witty dialogue and a character who loves to tell dirty stories. And the love story between Karl Oskar and Kristina is one of the simplest yet most captivating ones ever put on paper.Two film adaptations were made, one in 1971 (The Emigrants) and one in 1972 (The New Land). The films are in Swedish, starring Max von Sydow as Karl Oskar, Liv Ullmann as Kristina (earned her an Academy Award nomination), Monica Zetterlund as Ulrika and several high ranking Swedish actors in the supporting cast. The films, both directed by Jan Troell, are generally considered among the finest in Swedish film making. For tropes found in the 1971 film The Emigrants, see below. For tropes found in The New Land, see its work page.In 1995 a stage musical based on the books premiered, titled Kristina frÃ¥n DuvemÃ¥la (the English translation is simply known as Kristina), written by BjÃ¶rn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA. The show became a huge success and made stars out of Helen SjÃ¶holm (Kristina) and Peter JÃ¶back (Robert), the former so beloved in the role that she was the only Swedish cast member in the concert version of the English translation (reprising her role as Kristina). The English translation premiered in concert in 2009, getting mixed reviews both from fans of the original and from reviewers who had never seen the show before.2021 is seeing a remake film coming out (in Swedish, like the original), starring Gustaf SkarsgÃ¥rd as Karl Oskar. It has the under-title The Last Letter to Sweden, like the title of the fourth book, and appears to be covering all four books in one film. Most fans of the original film appear happy with the choice of SkarsgÃ¥rd as Karl Oskar, even though comparisons to von Sydow will be inevitable.
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The Emigrants / int_11b2e74f	comment	An Immigrant's Tale: It's an epic saga of poor Swedish peasants who move to the new land called America to improve their situations.
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The Emigrants / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Emigrants / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Given that the books have multiple characters, and it's set in a gritty time period where there were numerous threats to one's life, there are quite a few people dead in each book. Characters whose deaths are portrayed include Kristina, Robert, Inga-Lena, Danjel, his two grown sons, his infant daughter, Arvid, young Anna, and finally Karl Oskar.
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The Emigrants / int_19da8a03	type	Incurable Cough of Death
The Emigrants / int_19da8a03	comment	Incurable Cough of Death: What Robert's illness seems like when he returns to the Nilsson settlement. He is said to have died of Yellow Fever.
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The Emigrants / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
The Emigrants / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Anna, Karl Oskar and Kristina's first child. She follows Karl Oskar around while he's at his work and Karl Oskar refers to her as his little helper. He's very deeply attached to her. It hits him all the harder when she dies at the tender age of four; he keeps her worn-out shoes as a memento to the point of taking them on the voyage to America.
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The Emigrants / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Emigrants / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Robert and Arvid.
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The Emigrants / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Emigrants / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Anna, a four-year-old girl, dies after having eaten too much porridge (following a prolonged period of near-starvation). The porridge swells inside her and ruptures parts of her digestive system. She dies in agony after a long night, and she dies believing that if only her parents would forgive her for eating the porridge the pain would go away. Arvid on the California Trail. Lost in the desert, he drinks poisonous water and, much like Anna, is put through hours of agony as the poison slowly takes him.
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The Emigrants / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
The Emigrants / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Captain Lorentz of the brig Charlotta that Karl Oskar and co. board to migrate. He has a rather low opinion of peasants in general and bemoans the problems of having to carry many people on a long voyage over the ocean, but deep down he worries about their well-being and does what he can when they need help.
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The Emigrants / int_23f1384a	type	Babies Make Everything Better
The Emigrants / int_23f1384a	comment	Babies Make Everything Better: One of the most realistic depictions of how while this trope isn't exactly true, your children can still be a source of great joy. Especially prominent in the chapters that deal with the birth of Danjel, Karl Oskar and Kristina's first child to be born in America.
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The Emigrants / int_2554f670	type	Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter
The Emigrants / int_2554f670	comment	Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter: Karl Oskar is angry over how the drought is ruining their crops when the previous year too much rain ruined them. He takes a handful of hay and throws it to the sky, telling God to take it all while he's at it. Then thunder strikes their barn and what little they had been able to harvest is lost.
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The Emigrants / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Emigrants / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: The songs A Sunday in Battery Park and To Think That Men Like Him Can Exist in the Swedish.
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The Emigrants / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Emigrants / int_2a090d00	comment	Ulrika and Kristina both lampshade the fact that if they had stayed in Sweden, a friendship between them would have been unthinkable. They hate each other in the first book, Kristina being a devout Protestant who believes Ulrika to be a whore with whom she shouldn't socialize, and Ulrika feeling that Kristina is stuck-up and has a holier-than-thou attitude. During the journey a strong, unbreakable friendship forms between the two women, but Kristina knows that none of her family and friends back in Sweden would understand or accept the friendship between them. This doesn't hinder their friendship in the slightest, luckily.
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The Emigrants / int_2b9e3fb0	type	Give Me a Sign
The Emigrants / int_2b9e3fb0	comment	Give Me a Sign: Having gone through seven pregnancies Kristina does not feel she can handle an eighth, she prays to God to spare her and when she realizes she's with child again she begins to doubt that God really exists. She prays to God to give her a sign of his existence, and when she miscarries and nearly dies in the process, she takes it as Him giving her a sign as well as chastising her. The sequence when she prays to God for him to exist became a Show Stopper in the musical.
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The Emigrants / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
The Emigrants / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: Landberg thinks Chicago is a cesspool that'll eventually become "entirely depopulated and obliterated from the face of the earth". That's his opinion of the city that has become one of the most important and populated in all the USA.
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The Emigrants / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
The Emigrants / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Arvid is called the Bull at Nybacken after rumors spread that he's had sex with a cow.
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The Emigrants / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
The Emigrants / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Kristina for Ulrika and Henry.
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The Emigrants / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Emigrants / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Jonas Petter is absent in the musical. As are Fina Kajsa's husband and son, but they are minor characters.
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The Emigrants / int_34e3784f	type	Please, Don't Leave Me
The Emigrants / int_34e3784f	comment	Please, Don't Leave Me: Karl Oskar to Kristina, twice.
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The Emigrants / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
The Emigrants / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: Robert is the The Smart Guy of the main cast, but he also wants to avoid work. And even his search for gold is an attempt at becoming rich quickly, so he won't have to work again. However, being a Book Worm and not a sturdy farmer like Karl Oskar, Robert is merely trying to avoid any physical work. If he only had been allowed to continue his schooling and get an education, he would have excelled within that environment. But alas, his family is poor struggling farmers, so nobody seems to even see that as an option for him.
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The Emigrants / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
The Emigrants / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: In-story; Kristina berates Karl Oskar for gradually inserting more and more English words and idioms into his Swedish.
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The Emigrants / int_35e077	type	Fourth-Date Marriage
The Emigrants / int_35e077	comment	Fourth-Date Marriage: Karl Oskar and Kristina only meet a few times over the course of about two years before he proposes to her. They do, however, spend a lot of time together while they are betrothed, including a lot of make-out sessions.
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The Emigrants / int_3b0bd0ab	type	Thirsty Desert
The Emigrants / int_3b0bd0ab	comment	Thirsty Desert: Arvid and Robert experience this.
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The Emigrants / int_3ff156fa	type	Nay-Theist
The Emigrants / int_3ff156fa	comment	Nay-Theist: Karl Oskar arguably becomes one after Kristina's death.
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The Emigrants / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Emigrants / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Karl Oskar and Kristina's settlement has grown into a prosperous farm, and their children have grown into healthy, happy adults, enjoying opportunities they most likely would not have in Sweden. The Nilsson family, together with their fellow Ljuder emigrants, have helped turned the wildland they settled in into a community. And Ulrika from VÃ¤stergÃ¶hl found love, happiness and above all respect in their new homeland. But Danjel and his sons, along with many others, were brutally killed during the Indian uprising, none of the emigrants ever got to see the family they left behind, Arvid died a horrible death on the California trail and Robert died in his early twenties, having found gold but been swindled, and the last time he and his brother were together Karl Oskar hit him. As for Karl Oskar himself, he lost his beloved Kristina some thirty years before his own death and never got over the loss.
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The Emigrants / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
The Emigrants / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: The characters are from SmÃ¥land in Sweden, an area with several distinctive accents. Director Jan Troell left it up to the actors to decide if they wanted to use accent or not. Some did and some didn't. Liv Ullman makes a good attempt, but her natural Norwegian shines through on occasion.
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The Emigrants / int_4441d947	type	The Storyteller
The Emigrants / int_4441d947	comment	The Storyteller: Jonas Petter loves telling lewd stories, usually about men suffering at the hands of women. Some chapters are wholly dedicated to a tale of his.
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The Emigrants / int_4560b6bb	type	Gag Nose
The Emigrants / int_4560b6bb	comment	Gag Nose: Both the narrator and other characters often take note of Karl Oskar's distinctly large nose, which is a trait passed down in his family that's thought to bring good luck and gives its bearer a number of good and bad personality traits; Karl Oskar's determination and always wanting to have his way are both attributed to his nose.
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The Emigrants / int_46a4f490	type	Carcass Sleeping Bag
The Emigrants / int_46a4f490	comment	Carcass Sleeping Bag: When Karl-Oskar and his son Johan are caught out in the open as a blizzard hits, the boy eventually collapses. Karl-Oskar saves Johan's life by slicing open the ox that was pulling their cart and stuffing Johan inside while he goes to get help.
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The Emigrants / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Emigrants / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Fina Kajsa's husband and son are both dead in the musical, whereas in the novel her husband dies on the journey across the Atlantic, and her son dies more than a decade after the group arrive in Minnesota.
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The Emigrants / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
The Emigrants / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: Used heavily. Especially when characters begin to mix English with their Swedish.
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The Emigrants / int_4a2059bf	type	Gold Fever
The Emigrants / int_4a2059bf	comment	Gold Fever: Robert gets a dose of this.
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The Emigrants / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Emigrants / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Kristina.
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The Emigrants / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
The Emigrants / int_500ecfb7	comment	The Big Guy: Karl Oskar, played by 1.94 meters (roughly 6 foot 5 inches) Max von Sydow.
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The Emigrants / int_505ec51b	type	Immigrant Patriotism
The Emigrants / int_505ec51b	comment	Immigrant Patriotism: Karl Oskar is proud to become an American citizen, and volunteers for the Union Army during the Civil War (though he's rejected on medical grounds, to his chagrin); in his old age, he harbors bittersweet feelings about never seeing Sweden and his family there again, but he never regrets his decision to immigrate.
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The Emigrants / int_512b00e0	type	BSoD Song
The Emigrants / int_512b00e0	comment	BSoD Song: You Have To Be There.
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The Emigrants / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
The Emigrants / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: Ulrika was raped by her foster father at the age of fourteen, with his logic being that she should start paying back for the care she's been given in the "only" way she can. That's why she became a prostitute.
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The Emigrants / int_531bf681	type	BookWorm
The Emigrants / int_531bf681	comment	Robert is the Book Worm of the group; Arvid is hardly able to read at all. But they still are best friends.
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The Emigrants / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
The Emigrants / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Averted. Early in her marriage Kristina gave birth to fraternal twins, a girl and a boy. The girl, MÃ¤rta, survived but the boy did not, dying after a week of life. A few years later they lose their first-born, Anna, in a horrifying manner. Danjel's baby daughter Eva dies on the steamboat on the Mississippi, presumably from cholera. And out of the four children Ulrika gave birth to in Sweden only Elin survived infancy.
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The Emigrants / int_55c72164	type	Death Song
The Emigrants / int_55c72164	comment	Death Song: Robert gets one, as does Kristina.
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The Emigrants / int_55edb17e	type	Irrelevant Act Opener
The Emigrants / int_55edb17e	comment	Irrelevant Act Opener: Overlords, or Emperors and Kings as it's called in the English translation.
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The Emigrants / int_5663a595	type	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
The Emigrants / int_5663a595	comment	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: Interestingly enough not by way of adapting the books into musical but by the musical itself being shortened for the 2015 production. The show has a running time of roughly four hours after having been trimmed down so you understand why they chose to cut some parts out. However the parts they cut sometimes cause leaps in the story. For instance with the song "Ljusa kvÃ¤llar om vÃ¥ren" ("Bright Spring Evenings") they cut Kristina's second verse in which she begs God to bring her back to Sweden. Then Karl Oskar tells her that if she wants God to move her back to Sweden he will reach out his hand and keep her with him, prompting Kristina to reply: "So you heard what I prayed for?". Even though she no longer prayed for that.
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The Emigrants / int_598513bb	type	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
The Emigrants / int_598513bb	comment	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Karl Oskar is a very hard working, pragmatic man who values honor and honesty. Robert is a dreamer with a strong dislike of physical labor, who fantasizes about finding gold and never having to work another day in his life. He is imaginative, to the point where he often makes stories up or embellishes on events, without always giving much thought to how truthful he's being. It's lampshaded by various characters, including the brothers and Kristina, who wonders how two brothers can be so different.
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The Emigrants / int_60c90bd5	type	Orphan's Ordeal
The Emigrants / int_60c90bd5	comment	Orphan's Ordeal: Ulrika was orphaned at four and sold at an auction.note Not a slave auction, mind you: during the 19th century when Sweden was very poor, orphans and other uncared-for children where assigned to foster families by auction: the bidding was for remuneration, the lowest bidder getting the child.
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The Emigrants / int_615fdb1f	type	Dream Sequence
The Emigrants / int_615fdb1f	comment	Dream Sequence: What happened to Arvid and Robert on the California trail is told through Robert's dreams.
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The Emigrants / int_6a4c6ec0	type	The Promised Land
The Emigrants / int_6a4c6ec0	comment	The Promised Land: As it often was in those days, America is treated as a near-mythical promised land for the poor and outcast. They do indeed find their promised land, but the price is very high, and Kristina never stops longing for her home in Sweden...
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The Emigrants / int_6a974cae	type	Forbidden Friendship
The Emigrants / int_6a974cae	comment	Forbidden Friendship: Between Kristina and Ulrika, or rather it would have been back home in Sweden due to Ulrika being a former prostitute and Kristina an honourable women by the standards of their lutheran society. Kristina's neighbours in Minnesota very much consider their friendship forbidden, though they don't know about the prostitution - they pay a visit and try to demand that Kristina ends her friendship with Ulrika on account of the latter having converted to baptism. Kristina... refuses, to put it mildly.
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The Emigrants / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Emigrants / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: It is hard to see Vicar Brusander as anything but a pompous Well-Intentioned Extremist for his prosecution of Danjel's religious movement, but he still makes a few good points in his speech to Karl Oskar against emigration. Many people back then did leave Europe for America to escape the laws of their native countries, or only because they heard fanciful stories about how much better everything was over there. And how exactly would Europe survive, if all young people went to America and left their old parents at home?
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The Emigrants / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Emigrants / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Kristina from DuvemÃ¥la. Kristina was born on DuvemÃ¥la farm so the title can refer to where she was originally from. Karl Oskar names their home in America New DuvemÃ¥la to make her feel more at home, so it can also refer to where she ended up living. Either way it's an interesting choice of title since the book mostly talks about Korpamoen, Karl Oskar's home farm where they live when they get married. Their new home is rarely mentioned by name.
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The Emigrants / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Emigrants / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Implied with Anders MÃ¥nsson, who disappears shortly after the death of his mother. His hat is found much later in a river and the other characters come to the conclusion that he drowned himself.
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The Emigrants / int_6fd5262a	type	Swing Low, Sweet Harriet
The Emigrants / int_6fd5262a	comment	Swing Low, Sweet Harriet: Opens with Kristina on her swing. When the show ends her swing is lowered down on stage while Karl Oskar cries over her dead body.
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The Emigrants / int_70ade2c4	type	Culture Clash
The Emigrants / int_70ade2c4	comment	Culture Clash: Ulrika sees the word "packet" inscribed on a wheelhouse on a steamer, which causes her to refuse to board because packet means rabble in Swedish, and Ulrika's done with being considered a lower class of person. The captain explains to her that the word actually stands for mail, which puts her at ease.
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The Emigrants / int_74149c93	type	Epic Rocking
The Emigrants / int_74149c93	comment	Epic Rocking: You Have To Be There. Written at the last minute when Benny Andersson felt they needed one more song and it became one of the two biggest hits from the show. It's the song Kristina sings when she begins to doubt that God even exists, having spent her entire life relying on God to pull her through. The most poignant line from the original, "You must exist, you must, so how can you then abandon me?" sadly does not make it to the English version. The song does an amazing job of describing what faith means to those who believe, especially considering that BjÃ¶rn Ulvaeus who wrote the lyrics is an atheist.
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The Emigrants / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
The Emigrants / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Ulrika from VÃ¤stergÃ¶hl. Kristina hates her at first for being a dirty prostitute who went off the straight and narrow but during their journey across America she begins to see the kindness and warmth in Ulrika. The two end up becoming best friends.
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The Emigrants / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Emigrants / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Anders MÃ¥nsson.
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The Emigrants / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Emigrants / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: From the cover of the English translation of The Settlers:
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The Emigrants / int_81241767	type	Smelly Skunk
The Emigrants / int_81241767	comment	Smelly Skunk: Karl Oskar and Kristina's son Johan catches a skunk and tries presenting it to Kristina thinking it's a cat. They don't know what it actually is since skunks are new world animals, until they get a nasty surprise when it sprays and stinks up the whole shanty.
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The Emigrants / int_820133fd	type	Tragic Hero
The Emigrants / int_820133fd	comment	Tragic Hero: Many of the characters get a tragic ending, but still, Robert is the one out of the group who seems to never be allowed to catch any breaks. He is the Book Worm and "dreamer" of the main cast, who never was able to fit in with all the sturdy hard-working farmers around him. And from a modern point of view, the best thing would have been to just send him to school somewhere to get an education. But alas, his family is struggling farmers in the mid-19th century, so nobody seems to even consider helping him becoming anything but a farmhand. And to add to all of the misery, his master is a nasty sadist. It is during this hard time that Robert is introduced to his only friend Arvid, but otherwise, his life at this point is just like a nightmare. He decides to run away from his cruel master, and he plans to follow Karl Oskar to America, but not even leaving Sweden means that things become better for Robert. His romance with Elin is cut short before it even goes anywhere, and he never seems to be able to get near another girl. He sets out to find gold, but ends up watching Arvid's painful death and losing the gold he did find. And just a short while after he's back to Karl Oskar's new farm, he is found ill and dies from yellow fever. And he's only in his early 20s at his death, because he was from the "wrong" social class to be what he really was at heart: an intellectual, who could have had a career within any field of his choosing with the right education. But it was never meant to be...
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The Emigrants / int_8338de89	type	"I Want" Song
The Emigrants / int_8338de89	comment	"I Want" Song: Down to the Sea.
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The Emigrants / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The Emigrants / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: For some international audiences, the scenes taking place during Swedish summer nights, such as Arvid and Robert wrestling over the axe, seem like a case of Special Effect Failure due the lighting seeming like its dusk. However, summer nights in Sweden are very bright, and even though SmÃ¥land is far south of the midnight sun there's only a few short hours of actual darkness. The rest of the night is more a prolonged dusk/dawn.
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The Emigrants / int_88fd6847	type	Converting for Love
The Emigrants / int_88fd6847	comment	Converting for Love: Ulrika converts to Baptism in order to marry Pastor Jackson. When Danjel believes himself to be enlightened and righteous, he tells his wife Inga-Lena they cannot have sex anymore since they are not married in the eyes of God when she is not enlightened. Eventually she basically pretends to have been "enlightened" also and to share his beliefs and they once again live as husband and wife.
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The Emigrants / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
The Emigrants / int_8d6d9535	comment	Artistic License â€“ Medicine: Scurvy would not make a person bleed out of every orifice until they die of exsanguination.
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The Emigrants / int_8f00b02a	type	Always Identical Twins
The Emigrants / int_8f00b02a	comment	Always Identical Twins: Subverted almost to the point of Big-Lipped Alligator Moment. Kristina gives birth to fraternal twins but the boy only lives for about a week and is never brought up again, except for when Kristina at one point wonders if she's having twins again. The surviving twin, MÃ¤rta, doesn't seem to be aware, or care, that she had a twin brother.
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The Emigrants / int_8f4d6761	type	Epilogue Letter
The Emigrants / int_8f4d6761	comment	Epilogue Letter: The story ends with the last letter home, written by a friend of the family to inform the relatives in Sweden about the death of Karl Oskar.
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The Emigrants / int_92370007	type	The Modest Orgasm
The Emigrants / int_92370007	comment	The Modest Orgasm: While Kristina very much enjoys her sex life, she doesn't feel it's proper to let Karl Oskar know just how much.
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The Emigrants / int_94c1e2f7	type	Grave-Marking Scene
The Emigrants / int_94c1e2f7	comment	Grave-Marking Scene: Karl Oskar frequently visits Kristina's grave.
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The Emigrants / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
The Emigrants / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Kristina and Karl Oskar lose one child to starvation and almost lose another when she walks off in a crowdnote a truly terrifying scene - MÃ¤rta walks off while the riverboat is making a brief stop to bring on more supplies and her parents desperately search for her knowing the boat will be leaving any minute and that their sons are on board, and they can't speak English so they can't communicate with anyone to help find MÃ¤rta or keep the boat waiting a little longer. They also come close to losing a son in a snowstorm.
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The Emigrants / int_96e49d2e	type	The Pioneer
The Emigrants / int_96e49d2e	comment	The Pioneer: Karl Oskar.
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The Emigrants / int_96e5792c	type	Moral Guardians
The Emigrants / int_96e5792c	comment	Moral Guardians: Karl Oskar and Kristina's new neighbors, who are deeply troubled by Kristina's close friendship to Ulrika, a woman who left the Swedish Lutheran Church and converted to Baptism.
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The Emigrants / int_975ba595	type	Sleep Cute
The Emigrants / int_975ba595	comment	Sleep Cute: Elin falls asleep on Robert's shoulder while the group is traveling to Karlshamn. Robert is pretty flustered until he falls asleep himself. Jonas Petter, who's riding with them, doesn't have the heart to wake them up.
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The Emigrants / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
The Emigrants / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: Robert keeping Arvid's watch after the latter dies.
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The Emigrants / int_a0eeac39	type	Odd Name Out
The Emigrants / int_a0eeac39	comment	Odd Name Out: Moberg originally wrote it as a trilogy but his editors decided the third book was too long and split it up into two. Therefore the naming pattern of the first three books is broken and we have The Emigrants, The Immigrants, The Settlers and The Last Letter to Sweden. Karl Oskar and Kristina's youngest child is given an American name - Frank. His siblings all have Swedish names, though as they grow older the English speaking people in the community begin to call some of them by more Americanized versions of their names. Johan becomes John, MÃ¤rta becomes Mary (why she isn't called Martha is anyone's guess), Danjel is soon shortened to Dan...
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The Emigrants / int_a2245a73	type	Henpecked Husband
The Emigrants / int_a2245a73	comment	Hen Pecked Husband: Jonas-Petter lives in terror of his wife, and moves to America just to escape her.
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The Emigrants / int_a30c287	type	Good Parents
The Emigrants / int_a30c287	comment	Good Parents: Karl Oskar and Kristina, who do their best to raise their eight children well, and with a lot of love. Ulrika takes very good care of her bastard daughter Elin, who loves and respects her a lot in return even while knowing her occupation. The biggest reason Ulrika kept prostituting herself was so she had the money to raise and feed Elin properly.
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The Emigrants / int_a52f8fdf	type	Bolt of Divine Retribution
The Emigrants / int_a52f8fdf	comment	Bolt of Divine Retribution: Karl Oskar, frustrated by the heat and lack of rain which is ruining the crops for the second year in a row, tosses hay towards the sky and tells God that since he took last year's harvest he might as well take this too. A while later lightning strikes the old field house where they store the harvested hay... Kristina flat-out tells him that the lightning and subsequent fire was God's punishment.
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The Emigrants / int_a8b68a9c	type	No Pregger Sex
The Emigrants / int_a8b68a9c	comment	No Pregger Sex: Surprisingly averted. Kristina is pregnant with her fifth child when they emigrate and she laments being surrounded by other people at all times during her pregnancy since this is usually the only time she can relax and fully enjoy sex (not having to worry about getting pregnant when she already is pregnant).
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The Emigrants / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
The Emigrants / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: Ulrika and Kristina both lampshade the fact that if they had stayed in Sweden, a friendship between them would have been unthinkable. They hate each other in the first book, Kristina being a devout Protestant who believes Ulrika to be a whore with whom she shouldn't socialize, and Ulrika feeling that Kristina is stuck-up and has a holier-than-thou attitude. During the journey a strong, unbreakable friendship forms between the two women, but Kristina knows that none of her family and friends back in Sweden would understand or accept the friendship between them. This doesn't hinder their friendship in the slightest, luckily. Danjel is a born-again Christian, deeply devout and with an intellectual bent. Jonas-Petter is a rough-and-tumble type whose great delights in life are lewd jokes (the filthier the better) and chewing tobacco. The two are thick as thieves and share a household for a long period after emigration, and when Jonas-Petter finally moves out, he settles as close to Danjel's plot as he can. Robert is the Book Worm of the group; Arvid is hardly able to read at all. But they still are best friends.
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The Emigrants / int_aa79bac	type	Parting-Words Regret
The Emigrants / int_aa79bac	comment	Parting-Words Regret: The last time the Nilsson brothers are together, Karl Oskar slaps Robert quite hard across the face. He immediately begs for forgiveness, and is granted it more or less, but it's still something that haunts him for a long time after.
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The Emigrants / int_ac5054d4	type	Wound That Will Not Heal
The Emigrants / int_ac5054d4	comment	Wound That Will Not Heal: The boxing Robert takes to the ear ends up paining him for the rest of his life.
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The Emigrants / int_b179eb00	type	Tragic Bromance
The Emigrants / int_b179eb00	comment	Tragic Bromance: Arvid and Robert.
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The Emigrants / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Emigrants / int_b352e864	comment	Sexless Marriage: Danjel and Inga Lena for a while after he believes he has become righteous. Not until she too says she's been reborn in Christ does he agree to have sex with her again. Kristina and Karl Oskar when they learn another pregnancy would kill her. They go back to having sex, only to have Kristina get pregnant again and die from a miscarriage.
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The Emigrants / int_b66699a2	type	Mundane Luxury
The Emigrants / int_b66699a2	comment	Mundane Luxury: Karl Oskar complains about the meagre amount of tools he could bring to America. Anders MÃ¥nsson points out that he has three axe-heads, which makes him a wealthy man by frontier standards, and claims that many men showed up owning no tools beyond a belt knife and a half-share of an axe.
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The Emigrants / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
The Emigrants / int_b6de94d1	comment	Moberg originally wrote it as a trilogy but his editors decided the third book was too long and split it up into two. Therefore the naming pattern of the first three books is broken and we have The Emigrants, The Immigrants, The Settlers and The Last Letter to Sweden.
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The Emigrants / int_b7920c43	type	Lost in Translation
The Emigrants / int_b7920c43	comment	Lost in Translation: Unfortunately, most of the beauty and magic of the Swedish original.
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The Emigrants / int_ba759edf	type	Naturalized Name
The Emigrants / int_ba759edf	comment	Naturalized Name: Upon being naturalized as a U.S. citizen, Karl Oskar Nilson changes his legal name to Charles O. Nelson; which name he uses is somewhat situationally specific, though.
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The Emigrants / int_be30e493	type	Undignified Death
The Emigrants / int_be30e493	comment	Undignified Death: Fina Kajsa dies out in the potato field, and when Karl Oskar finds her it's suggested that the body has been lying there for some time.
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The Emigrants / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
The Emigrants / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Many of the couples in the books (though far from all), but Karl Oskar and Kristina especially.
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The Emigrants / int_c209fc7	type	Chaste Hero
The Emigrants / int_c209fc7	comment	Chaste Hero: Robert gets a budding romance with Elin, but it doesn't really go anywhere. And afterwards, he can't seem to get close to any other woman.
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The Emigrants / int_c23525d4	type	Character Title
The Emigrants / int_c23525d4	comment	Character Title: The musical puts its main focus on Kristina.
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The Emigrants / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
The Emigrants / int_c2c92862	comment	Unwanted Spouse: Brita-Stafva, Jonas Petter's wife. To the point where the only reason he emigrates is to get away from her.
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The Emigrants / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Emigrants / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: The group from Ljuder become this in the second book, eventually pooling their food and functioning as one household. Once they settle they live apart from one another but remain close for the duration of their lives.
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The Emigrants / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Emigrants / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: After his return from California, Robert finds a job he likes, working as a journalist and assistant editor at a Swedish-language newspaper. He dies of yellow fever less than a month later.
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The Emigrants / int_c3fbac64	type	Bestiality Is Depraved
The Emigrants / int_c3fbac64	comment	Bestiality Is Depraved: Arvid is plagued by false rumors that he had sex with a cow and this why he chooses to emigrate. Some comments are made about how settlers will often turn to their cattle because there are so few women around. By the same token, Robert gets told tales about prospectors decking out their mules in dresses and perfume before doing the deed so they will have the illusion of being with a woman.
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The Emigrants / int_c730d1f9	type	Overcome Their Differences
The Emigrants / int_c730d1f9	comment	Overcome Their Differences: Kristina and Ulrika have a song about it.
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The Emigrants / int_ccc0d531	type	Settling the Frontier
The Emigrants / int_ccc0d531	comment	Settling the Frontier: Claiming new land and building a new life in the wilds of Minnesota.
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The Emigrants / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
The Emigrants / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: The musical has an entire song devoted to a stove, hailing it as "a blessing from the Angel of Christmas".
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The Emigrants / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
The Emigrants / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: How it ends. Except it's a miscarriage not a birth.
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The Emigrants / int_d6b5f05f	type	Friendship Moment
The Emigrants / int_d6b5f05f	comment	Friendship Moment: Kristina going absolutely livid at her neighbours when they try to talk her into cutting Ulrika out of her life. The neighbours tell her, among other things, to never let Ulrika into her house again, and when Kristina a few months later gives birth to a daughter she names her Ulrika - thereby showing them that there will always be an Ulrika in her house and family.
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The Emigrants / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
The Emigrants / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: Kristina points out to Karl Oskar before they move that if they emigrate they will never get to see their home parish again, nor their friends and family. In America Kristina is terribly homesick and it doesn't get better that she knows she can never return to where she feels her real home is. Karl-Oskar, for most of his life in America, is a happy settler. When he grows old, though (and is widowed and also unable to work after an accident) he manages to get his hands on a map of his old Swedish socken (approximately parish). He spends his idle and lonely hours tracing out the paths he used to walk there in his youth.
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The Emigrants / int_dc292b90	type	Ear Ache
The Emigrants / int_dc292b90	comment	Ear Ache: Robert suffers from chronic pain in his ear and tinnitus, having been boxed over the ear by his master at Nybacken.
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The Emigrants / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Emigrants / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: It seems just a bit too unlikely that on the same night as Kristina nearly bleeds to death from scurvy, Inga-Lena should die from that same disease.
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The Emigrants / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
The Emigrants / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Robert and Elin show a lot of interest in each other, much to Ulrika's dismay. However, they have a falling out early on in The Immigrants and Robert soon leaves the others and heads off to California.
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The Emigrants / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Emigrants / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Ulrika.
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The Emigrants / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Emigrants / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Ulrika in her song Never.
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The Emigrants / int_e680af6f	type	Grief Song
The Emigrants / int_e680af6f	comment	Grief Song: Gold Can Turn To Sand.
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The Emigrants / int_e7cb46d3	comment	Satellite Character: Jonas Petter, who was Adapted Out from the musical. Starting halfway through the second book Danjel Andreasson also becomes one.
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The Emigrants / int_ed874c14	type	Self-Made Man
The Emigrants / int_ed874c14	comment	Self-Made Man: Upon arriving in Minnesota, Karl Oskar literally has nothing but the things he brought in the America Chest. His family spends the first weeks living in what could generously be called a shanty, followed by a few years in a tiny log cabin. But in time, and through hard and incessant labor, he creates a large, prosperous farm that can with ease support him, his six living children and Johan's growing family. Much of Karl Oskar's drive and motivation is that he believes in people prospering through their own labor, but back home in Sweden he never had the resources to make his farm grow and prosper, no matter how much hard work he invested into it.
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The Emigrants / int_edfacbac	type	Covert Pervert
The Emigrants / int_edfacbac	comment	Covert Pervert: Due to the morals of the time, Kristina won't be open about how much she enjoys sex with Karl Oskar (as it was thought women weren't supposed to enjoy sex, else they were harlots), but she frequently admits in her thoughts she does enjoy it very much.
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The Emigrants / int_eee99653	type	Can't Have Sex, Ever
The Emigrants / int_eee99653	comment	Can't Have Sex, Ever: In the fourth book, Karl Oskar and Kristina learn from the doctor that she will not survive another birth or miscarriage and have no reliable means of birth control other than not having sex at all.
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The Emigrants / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
The Emigrants / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Karl Oskar never re-marries and never gets over the death of Kristina in the latter half of book four.
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The Emigrants / int_f3fd818b	type	Dark Reprise
The Emigrants / int_f3fd818b	comment	Dark Reprise: The reprise of Down to the Sea.
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The Emigrants / int_f516f938	type	Never Found the Body
The Emigrants / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: All they found of Anders MÃ¥nsson after he presumably drowned himself was a hat.
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The Emigrants / int_f765e2d3	type	Dying Alone
The Emigrants / int_f765e2d3	comment	Dying Alone: Robert runs off after fighting with Karl Oskar over bringing home worthless paper money and ends up dying all alone after a day or so of wandering aimlessly around the lake in a state of despondency. Fina Kajsa dies in the potato field, trying to work on it while Anders is lying in bed drunk. Karl Oskar is the first to find the body hours later. Following this, Anders apparently drowns himself.
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The Emigrants / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Emigrants / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Jonas Petter loves to tell stories, the dirtier the better, but there is one he never seems to get to tell, a story about a farmer who paid a soldier to produce an heir for him. He starts telling the story countless times over several years and doesn't get to actually tell it until the later half of the last book.
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The Emigrants / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
The Emigrants / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Vicar Brusander. He's a very difficult character to like from a modern point of view, when he masterminds a prosecution of Danjel's harmless religious movement, but at this point in Swedish history, dissenting from the established Lutheran church is still against the law. And the vicar hardly is the only person in the parish who has become suspicious of what Danjel might be up to. Furthermore, it seems like the vicar also thinks that punishing Danjel and his followers is for the best of the people. His belief is that if everybody could choose their own faith, society would be plunged into chaos. So even though the story naturally puts most of the sympathy with the dissenters, Vicar Brusander is still portrayed as this trope rather than a one-dimensional villain.
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The Emigrants / int_fd86da63	type	Crisis of Faith
The Emigrants / int_fd86da63	comment	Crisis of Faith: The devoted Kristina begins to doubt God's existence when it seems like he has not heard her prayer where she asked him not to bless her with child again. She becomes faithful again when she has a miscarriage, interpreting it as God's punishment. The moment where she questions her belief in God and begs Him to exist is the most famous song from the musical, both in Swedish and in English.
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The Emigrants / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
The Emigrants / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Subverted. Kristina, Karl Oskar and Robert are all played by very attractive people but Robert is often covered in dirt, and the hard lives they lead leave distinct marks upon them. When Kristina is on her death bed she is still in her thirties, but looks closer to fifty. Karl Oskar looks quite worn and torn, as well.
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The Emigrants / int_feaf12e8	type	Survivor Guilt
The Emigrants / int_feaf12e8	comment	Survivor Guilt: Robert following the death of Arvid on the California trail.
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The Emigrants / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Emigrants / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: A surprising amount of the original song lyrics feature direct, or very nearly so, quotes from Moberg's text. Things have been moved around here and there, but if you know the songs of the musical by heart you'll recognize a fair amount when you then read the books in their original language. BjÃ¶rn Ulvaeus truly outdid himself.
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