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The Final Solution

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15 feature instances
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The Final Solution	type	TVTItem
The Final Solution	label	The Final Solution
The Final Solution	page	TheFinalSolution
The Final Solution	comment	Michael Chabon's The Final Solution (first published in the Paris Review in 2003) features an unnamed but strangely familiar detective, elderly and long-retired, investigating the case of a boy's missing African gray parrot. However, the boy is a mute Jewish refugee whose parents were taken away to a concentration camp, and the parrot keeps spouting mysterious numbers. Thanks to the numbers, the parrot attracts some unwelcome attention from more than one source—perhaps enough attention to lead to murder.
The Final Solution	fetched	2023-11-23T04:31:02Z
The Final Solution	parsed	2023-11-23T04:31:02Z
The Final Solution	processingComment	Dropped link to NotInFrontOfTheParrot: Not a Feature - ITEM
The Final Solution	processingComment	Dropped link to TheYiddishPolicemensUnion: Not a Feature - ITEM
The Final Solution	isPartOf	DBTropes
The Final Solution / int_1181a575	type	The Unsolved Mystery
The Final Solution / int_1181a575	comment	The Unsolved Mystery: Sort of. The detective identifies the murderer and retrieves the parrot, but does not figure out what the numbers mean.
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The Final Solution / int_1300dc5c	type	Inspector Lestrade
The Final Solution / int_1300dc5c	comment	Inspector Lestrade: Inspector Bellows fills this role for the old man — as did his grandfather during some of the old man's investigations in his glory days.
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The Final Solution / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
The Final Solution / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: The detective is cranky at the best of times, despite his emotional response to Linus.
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The Final Solution / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Final Solution / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: This isn't the first time in one of Chabon's works that a conspicuously out of place diary has covered up a conspiracy. The story also contains numerous allusions to the detective's prior adventures, some of which are recognisably from the Sherlock Holmes canon and others of which are original.
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The Final Solution / int_27ae751	type	Swiss Bank Account
The Final Solution / int_27ae751	comment	Swiss Bank Account: The murderer committed the crime and stole the parrot because he believes the numbers that the parrot keeps reciting are the account numbers for a Swiss bank account where Linus' parents have hidden their wealth from the Nazis. He's very wrong.
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The Final Solution / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Final Solution / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Linus and the parrot are reunited, and the murderer is caught. But the other characters still don't understand the significance of the numbers—which refer to the railway cars in which Linus' parents were taken away to a concentration camp.
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The Final Solution / int_50b9b3d0	type	Crazy Jealous Guy
The Final Solution / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Crazy Jealous Guy: At one point, Mr. Panicker becomes a suspect in the murder investigation because his wife was clearly attracted to the victim. Even Mr. Panicker admits to himself that his feelings on that score were violent.
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The Final Solution / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
The Final Solution / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Linus Steinman. He gets better at the end.
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The Final Solution / int_a1154544	type	Grumpy Old Man
The Final Solution / int_a1154544	comment	Grumpy Old Man: "Crotchety" would be an understatement for the detective's general demeanor.
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The Final Solution / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
The Final Solution / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: Both referencing the Holocaust, which was called the "Final Solution" by the Nazis, and mirroring Doyle's The Final Problem.
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The Final Solution / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Final Solution / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The retired detective, although he is obviously Sherlock Holmes.
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The Final Solution / int_cbd2bfa3	type	Glory Days
The Final Solution / int_cbd2bfa3	comment	Glory Days: The detective is naturally given to contrast his present circumstances, in which his body is slowly failing and his mind, while far from decrepit, is nevertheless not what it once was, with his abilities when he was working in his prime.
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The Final Solution / int_dd8deee1	type	Xenofiction
The Final Solution / int_dd8deee1	comment	Xenofiction: Not a full example, but one important chapter is narrated from the perspective of Bruno the parrot.
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The Final Solution / int_fd7f0823	type	Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe
The Final Solution / int_fd7f0823	comment	Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: The detective puffs away on one.
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	The Final Solution	hasFeature	American Literature (E to I) / int_65b4282b
	The Final Solution	hasFeature	The Last Title / int_65b4282b

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