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The Magician's Elephant is a children's novel by Kate DiCamillo, published in 2009. It was adapted in 2023 into a film called The Magician’s Elephant, directed by Wendy Rogers and starring the voice of Noah Jupe.The story follows a young boy searching for his long lost sister. Guided by a fortune teller's instructions, he seeks out the elephant of a magician, who may be the key to reuniting the siblings. |
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Chekhov's Gun |
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Chekhov's Gun: The storybook Vilna confiscated from a comrade in arms during the war. Gloria's ribbing of her husband's Fleeting Passionate Hobbies, specifically parachuting. |
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Cryptically Unhelpful Answer |
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Cryptically Unhelpful Answer: The fortune teller's only advice on how Peter can find his sister is to "Follow the elephant". |
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Fortune Teller |
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Fortune Teller: At the start of the book, Peter visits a fortune teller who gives him the clue to find his sister. |
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Old Soldier |
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Old Soldier: Vilna is very much this. |
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Fleeting Passionate Hobbies |
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Gloria's ribbing of her husband's Fleeting Passionate Hobbies, specifically parachuting. |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Vilna and Sister Marie have been scarred by the past war. The former copes by keeping to his military training, while the latter hides from the world in her orphanage. |
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MacGuffin |
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MacGuffin: Everything Peter does is for the elephant, but honestly the elephant really has no purpose to the plot beyond a motivating incident for Peter. |
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Misery Builds Character |
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Misery Builds Character: Vilna tries to invoke this by training Peter in the ways of the soldier, to make the boy tough enough for a cruel world. |
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Orphanage of Love |
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Orphanage of Love: Aside from some wanderlust, Adele is perfectly happy in Sister Marie's orphanage. |
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Empathic Environment |
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Empathic Environment: The whole town is still suffering from the fallout of a war, in spirit at least, resulting in a permanent blanket of clouds across the sky. |
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Determinator |
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Determinator: Peter's fundamental virtue is that even when set the supposedly impossible task of following an elephant to his sister, he refuses to simply give up. |
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I Will Find You |
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I Will Find You: Peter is convinced that his sister is still alive, and is advised to follow an elephant to find her. |
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