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The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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The Ocean at the End of the Lane	comment	The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a 2013 dark fantasy book by Neil Gaiman.A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home in Sussex, England, for a funeral. While there, he remembers when he was seven years old and when he walked to the house at the end of the lane where the Hempstocks lived: Lettie, who was eleven years old, her mother Ginnie, and her grandmother, Old Mrs. Hempstock.The Hempstocks aren't normal, however. Lettie is eleven, but she's been eleven for a very long time, and she claims the pond behind their house is actually an ocean. And Old Mrs. Hempstock is very old. Older than the universe, p'raps.But something dark had been unleashed. Something old and terrible. Something only Lettie Hempstock could help stop.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_106f1a77	type	A Form You Are Comfortable With
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_106f1a77	comment	A Form You Are Comfortable With: Ursula (who actually looks like a mass of rotten gray cloth), Lettie (who actually looks like a form made of silk the color of frost illuminated by countless tiny flames) and presumably her mother and grandmother (Ginnie always appears human, and Old Mrs. Hempstock only partially reveals herself when the hunger birds almost kill Lettie as a woman whose hair and clothes shine so bright the protagonist compares her to burning magnesium). It's also implied that everyone's true self looks very different from their physical form.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_1073963d	type	Psychosexual Horror
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_1073963d	comment	Psychosexual Horror: The narrator, as a child, witnessed his father having sex with Ursula Monkton, who was actually an Eldritch Abomination in human form. She's still disheveled and half-dressed when she realizes that he's snuck out of the house and flies off to confront him.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_11630eaa	type	The Gambling Addict
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_11630eaa	comment	The Gambling Addict: The lodger killed himself because he'd gambled all his money and then lost all the money his South African friends had asked him to smuggle to England trying to win it back.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: The narrator's aged up to being 12 in the stage adaptation; Lettie's implied to look to be about 11 or 12 as well, but it's not said for certain.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_13e1c444	type	Plot-Triggering Death
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_13e1c444	comment	Plot-Triggering Death: The reason the narrator stops at the Hempstock farm to begin with is because he's been attending a funeral (likely his father's) earlier that day, while the actual plot of the book starts with the family's lodger committing suicide on the borders of the Hempstock farm, which gives the "flea" an opportunity to cross into this world.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_1527e9ae	type	Chaos Architecture
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_1527e9ae	comment	Chaos Architecture: The interior layout of the Hempstock farmhouse changes overnight.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: By the end, the narrator has become this, fully knowing that while inside a 'fairy ring' and told not to cross it, he doesn't. Not even when his father appears, not even when Lettie appears. This is a very good thing, because otherwise the hunger birds would have eaten him.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_19cc20f3	type	One-Person Birthday Party
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_19cc20f3	comment	One-Person Birthday Party: The narrator suffers one at the beginning of the novel. Inverted in that he doesn't really mind, because he knows that none of the kids who were invited were really friends, just people he knows, and it means he can spend the rest of the day reading his birthday presents instead of having to be sociable.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Playing with Fire: Ursula Monkton spits a Fire Ball into the grass when arguing with Lettie.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The novel starts when the narrator is middle-aged and returning to his home town for a funeral. He visits the street where he grew up, and it jogs his memories of what happened when he was seven...
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The pond, the kitten which was named Ocean.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_23ca8dff	type	Fantastic Nature Reserve
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_23ca8dff	comment	Fantastic Nature Reserve: Parts of the Hempstock farm are implied to be in Another Dimension and are infested by "fleas" as well as a field where kittens are growing.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: The Narrator pees himself while Ursula Monkton is chasing him through a field.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_2be15316	type	Ambiguously Jewish
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_2be15316	comment	Ambiguously Jewish: The narrator's grandmother and aunts are mentioned as using Yiddish words occasionally, implying that he at the very least comes from a Jewish family. Given that Gaiman has admitted that the protagonist is based loosely on himself at that age, and Gaiman's family is Jewish, this is probably the case.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_2d7c66d3	type	The Stars Are Going Out
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_2d7c66d3	comment	The Stars Are Going Out: Near the end, the hunger birds decide that if they can't get to the narrator, they'll just eat everything around him... including some of the stars in the sky. After everything is resolved, Old Mrs. Hempstock makes them put it back as it was.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_2fb61faa	type	Statuesque Stunner
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_2fb61faa	comment	Statuesque Stunner: Upon first seeing Ursula, the narrator describes her as being very pretty and seeming tall, even for an adult .
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_30d1e0df	type	Full-Name Basis
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_30d1e0df	comment	Full-Name Basis: Ursula Monkton is always given her full name, at least when the narrator thinks of it. Out loud, he mostly refers to her as "her".
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_32c96ed3	type	Magical Nanny
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_32c96ed3	comment	Magical Nanny: Of the worst possible kind.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_334b7f3a	type	Cryptic Background Reference
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_334b7f3a	comment	Cryptic Background Reference: Tons of details mentioned offhandedly by the Hempstock women. For instance, one of them mentions that their brother went off to fight in something called "the Mouse Wars".
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The narrator's mother is dead before the start of the story in this version.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: More Squick than painful but we get a graphic description of the narrator pulling a worm-like Ursula Monkton out of a hole in the sole of his foot with a pair of tweezers. He already had a scar there from stepping on glass as a toddler.l
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_39994bd9	type	Bazaar of the Bizarre
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_39994bd9	comment	Bazaar of the Bizarre: Lettie had to harvest mandrakes to gain entry to somewhere called the Bazaar to get the toys that will stop Ursula Monkton escaping.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_39a41690	type	Adaptational Sympathy
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_39a41690	comment	Adaptational Sympathy: The Narrator is more upset about the lodger dying here and his taxi running over the cat is dropped.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_3b99a9e0	type	Reality Warper
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_3b99a9e0	comment	Reality Warper: Whereas Lettie and Ginnie's powers "merely" seem to work along the lines of those you'd expect from, perhaps, a very powerful witch, Old Mrs. Hempstock seems to be more or less omnipotent. The eldritch abominations who eat other eldritch abominations, and are in the middle of the process of tearing down our universe in a fit of spite, stop in their tracks and begin to grovel when they realize she's angry.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: References are made to two previous times the Hempstocks had to shoo "fleas" off of Earth, one in Cromwell's time with a creature that looked rather like a giant frog who made people lonely, and one in "Red Rufus's Time" (Red Rufus being King William II) who made people's dreams come true. The frame narrative itself: the narrator ends up going back to the Hempstocks' farm many years later after taking a detour on the way to his sister's house after a funeral. The circumstances make it seem fairly likely that one of his parents has died (from context probably his father), but this is never made explicit or expanded upon.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The Eldritch Abomination that's been haunting the narrator is defeated, but the hunger birds try to devour the narrator's heart, forcing Lettie to sacrifice herself. She's not technically dead, but she's been healing for over forty years and still isn't well enough to talk. The narrator can only remember tiny fragments of what had really happened, except when he's visiting the ocean.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_420081bf	type	Alien Sky
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_420081bf	comment	Alien Sky: On one of the more obscure parts of the Hempstock farm, the sky is a dull orange colour similar to a warning light.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: The Narrator's parents: It's revealed that the Narrator was attending his father's funeral at the beginning when the book didn't specify whose funeral it was. Here the Narrator's mother is recently dead in the main part of the story.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_48cffdb7	type	I Want My Mommy!
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_48cffdb7	comment	I Want My Mommy!: The narrator cries for his parents when Ursula Monkton reveals her true form and flies up into the air with him.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_49d56e94	type	Jock Dad, Nerd Son
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_49d56e94	comment	Jock Dad, Nerd Son: Explicitly stated at the end - the narrator's father liked cars and played rugby and wanted his son to do the same, but the narrator instead loved reading books and comics. He does say that they became closer after he grew up.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: The three Hempstocks as a whole, but particularly Old Mrs. Hempstock. They see it as their mission to shoo off "fleas" (otherwise known by others as Eldritch Abominations) back to where they came from, both to keep them from hurting humanity, and also to keep them from attracting the hunger birds.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_4a879f41	type	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_4a879f41	comment	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: The narrator has tea and eats dinner with the Hempstocks several times. They are really lovely people, even though they aren't actually people, and at least one of them is old enough to remember the Big Bang. A less pleasant example occurs when the narrator and his father and sister eat dinner with a much less benevolent Humanoid Abomination.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_4b084bdd	type	Planimal
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_4b084bdd	comment	Planimal: The Hempstock farm grows kittens in fields with their tails sticking up out of the soil. They can all be traced back to someone called "Big Oliver" who came to the farm back in pagan times.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_4c798fd5	type	Shock and Awe
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_4c798fd5	comment	Shock and Awe: It's implied Ursula Monkton might be controlling or actually be the lightning storm that occurs when she's following the Narrator through the fields.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_57df9056	type	Glamour
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_57df9056	comment	Glamour: Old Mrs Hempstock puts a glamour on the old clothes she lends the Narrator so nobody will notice how strange they look.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_57efd4c4	type	Growing Up Sucks
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_57efd4c4	comment	Growing Up Sucks: A theme - the narrator often sees things better because he is a child and wonders why adults act the way they do. Lettie later tells him, however, that all adults are really only children swaddled in layers and that they get scared as well.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: Played straight with Monster, the orange tomcat, but averted with the narrator's two black kittens.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: Several times throughout the story, both as a kid and as an adult, the narrator briefly (and very painfully) confronts the realization that all of the horrible things that did wouldn't have happened if only he didn't let go of Lettie's hand. Old Mrs. Hempstock, being a rather more practical sort, points out that even less would have happened if Lettie hadn't insisted on taking him with her to battle the "flea" - and by extension, that this line of thought goes on forever and is pointless to start on.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_5b057eae	type	Animalistic Abomination
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_5b057eae	comment	Animalistic Abomination: The hunger birds. They come from outside of reality and can literally eat the world into nothingness to restore it to its natural order, similar to Clock Roaches.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_5b965319	type	Language of Magic
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_5b965319	comment	Language of Magic: Lettie speaks some ancient "first" language while trying to bind Ursula. The narrator can occasionally speak it in his dreams and warp reality however he wants.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: All of the Hempstocks are older then they look... much, much older. Old Mrs. Hempstock is said to remember the Big Bang.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_63baeeb2	type	Lightning Reveal
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_63baeeb2	comment	Lightning Reveal: Lightning reveals a stile in the hedge while the narrator is trying to escape to the Hempstock farm.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Defied. The opal miner thinks there's no harm done for accidentally running over a little boy's kitten because he brought a tomcat to replace it. Even ignoring that his tomcat is orange and mean while the kitten was black and sweet, the narrator knows that no cat in the world can truly replace his kitten because it was a unique living being. Picking the supernatural black kitten from the place with the orange sky makes him feel a little better, but only so much because, while he enjoys its company, he recognizes that it's still a different cat.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: When the hunger birds want to eat the protagonist's heart but are prevented from doing so, they spitefully start devouring Earth instead. This is enough to get the protagonist to leave the safety of the Hempstock farm, knowing full well it meant his death. As the narrator remembers it, Lettie put herself on the line to save his life. She didn't die, but was badly hurt, so her mother gave her back to the ocean to heal. The epilogue implies that this is not exactly what happened, and instead the narrator died in the original timeline, but Lettie was so distraught that Old Mrs. Hempstock snipped-and-cut that out so Lettie could shield him with her own body instead.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: The Hempstocks laugh at the idea that a ghost is causing all the aaaaàaaaamoney to appear. Apparently they can't make anything and can barely move things.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: The protagonist is very loosely based on Gaiman himself when he was a child.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_671681af	type	Jackass Genie
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_671681af	comment	Jackass Genie: Ursula Monkton started as an apparently unintentional one. The ghost of the lodger told her that people just wanted money so she started pelting people with coins and making them appear in people's throats while they were sleeping.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_6a492371	type	Truly Single Parent
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_6a492371	comment	Truly Single Parent: The Hempstock women claim not to have fathers, you apparently only need them to breed more men.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: At the end, the narrator finally asks Old Mrs. Hempstock why he came back there and she tells him that he always comes back. He always remembers for a bit and then leaves. It's Lettie bringing him back, wanting to know how his life is going. Wanting to know if her sacrifice was worth it.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_6bda9a30	comment	When the opal miner first arrives at the narrator's house, he runs over the boy's kitten and gives him a tomcat named (appropriately) Monster. He later commits suicide in a car at the edge of the narrator's and Hempstock's property, where the barrier between worlds is thinnest, which attracts the attention of a "flea," which leads to a literal monster getting into the boy's house.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Ginnie explains Lettie's absence by saying she moved to Australia to live with her father.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_767ef8a0	type	Flying Seafood Special
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_767ef8a0	comment	Flying Seafood Special: The Manta Wolf is a flying creature that's basically a hairy manta ray.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_773b0523	type	Impaled Palm
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_773b0523	comment	Impaled Palm: Ursula Monkton hid in the palm of the narrator's hand here, instead of his foot.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_77ee199	type	Villain Killer
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_77ee199	comment	Villain Killer: Here, Lettie is horrified that the narrator lets the cleaners kill Ursula Monkton when she can be sent home instead
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: "Does it make you feel big to make a little boy cry?"
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_7c48b272	type	Summon Bigger Fish
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_7c48b272	comment	Summon Bigger Fish: When Lettie can't reason with Ursula Monkton, she [[spoiler:summons
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Lettie gives Ursula every chance to surrender and do the right thing. And Ursula at one point seems to agree, only to attempt a double-cross. Fortunately, Lettie was Genre Savvy enough to see it coming.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_7c897aaa	type	Psychic Link
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_7c897aaa	comment	Psychic Link: Ursula Monkton has one with the narrator because she used him as a portal and can read his mind.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Nice job letting go of Lettie's hand after being warned not to, kid. Nice job trying to extract the worm in your foot by yourself rather than going to the Hempstocks causing a piece of it to stay inside you, making you a gateway to its own world, and then flushing the rest of it down the drain so it can appear as Ursula Monkton in your world.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_7fd142ef	type	Shared Universe
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_7fd142ef	comment	Shared Universe: Word of God implies the Hempstocks are related to Liza Hempstock from The Graveyard Book and Daisy Hempstock from Stardust.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_82fc5bdf	type	Bratty Half-Pint
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_82fc5bdf	comment	Bratty Half-Pint: The narrator's little sister never has anything nice to say to him. Her character doesn't improve under Ursula Monkton's influence.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_8370a793	type	Mature Work, Child Protagonists
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_8370a793	comment	Mature Work, Child Protagonists: Most of the short novel is the narrator flashing back to a time in his childhood when he encountered a family of magical women. Although he tells it from a younger perspective the events become darker and more horrific as it continues.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: The thing that calls itself Ursula Monkton... at least until it abandons its disguise. Also, perhaps all of the Hempstocks, although they are a benevolent version of the trope.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The "fleas", and, in a somewhat more benevolent version of this trope, the Hempstock women may qualify, given the birds' reaction to Old Mrs. Hempstock in her true form.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_8c9cad1e	type	Psychic Static
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_8c9cad1e	comment	Psychic Static: The narrator imagines himself reading The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe so Ursula Monkton will think he's doing that rather than escaping out of his window.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_8dd4a996	type	Identical Grandson
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_8dd4a996	comment	Identical Grandson: The adult Narrator in the Framing Device is played by the same actor as his father in the flashback.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_908ad334	type	Time Master
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_908ad334	comment	Time Master: When the Narrator's parents are coming to take home home from the farm, Old Mrs Hempstock suggests making it so they arrive last Tuesday when nobody was home. She ends up doing a "snip and stitch", basically removing the Narrator and his father's arguements from time so that they never happened.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: It's never said whose funeral the narrator came for, though it was probably one of his parents.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_974b47a7	type	Men Are the Expendable Gender
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_974b47a7	comment	Men Are the Expendable Gender: This seems to be true for the males of the Hempstock family. They get "the call" and wander the Earth, while the women stay at the farm and deal with fleas.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_98a63dc6	type	Time Abyss
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_98a63dc6	comment	Time Abyss: Old Mrs. Hempstock is older than the current universe and she will still be around for the next one.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_99244825	type	Screen-to-Stage Adaptation
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_99244825	comment	Screen-to-Stage Adaptation: The novel was adapted for the stage by the writer Joel Horwood and director Katy Rudd in 2019. Music in the play is by Jherek Bischoff, who also works with Gaiman's ex-wife Amanda Palmer.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_9a480050	type	Do Not Taunt Cthulhu
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_9a480050	comment	Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: The hunger birds attack Lettie, causing Old Mrs. Hempstock to reveal her true form. She questions their actions, but they openly defy her until she notes exactly what she can do to them, at which point they back off immediately and begin begging for mercy.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_9a5ae2a2	type	More Teeth than the Osmond Family
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_9a5ae2a2	comment	More Teeth than the Osmond Family: The Manta wolf has dozens of tiny sharp teeth.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_9bd92eef	type	Astral Projection
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_9bd92eef	comment	Astral Projection: One of the potential lodgers who checks out the narrator's room claims to be able to "leave her head and walk around the ceiling".
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_9be7c205	type	Giant Spider
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_9be7c205	comment	Giant Spider: Among the "friends" that Ursula Monkton threatens to lock the Narrator in the attic with are spiders as big as dogs.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_9c209a57	type	The Hecate Sisters
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_9c209a57	comment	The Hecate Sisters: All three Hempstock women are this: Lettie is the Maiden, Mrs. Hempstock is the Mother, and Old Mrs. Hempstock is the Crone. They also have associations with the ocean and moon, two things the triple goddess is often associated with in Wicca and in a few folk religions. Also, Neil Gaiman loves this trope in general, so it's no surprise to see it here as well.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The narrator doesn't bother telling his parents the opal miner ran over his kitten, because he knows they wouldn't care since they'd figure it's just a cat, and they'd figure the opal miner bringing a new cat to replace it is a fair trade anyway.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: As he approaches the Hempstock farm in the first chapter, the grown narrator half-remembers things from his first visit that are given fuller context later. When the narrator sees Ursula Monkton for the first time, he feels a twinge in his heart...because that's where the last piece of the hole is. When the opal miner first arrives at the narrator's house, he runs over the boy's kitten and gives him a tomcat named (appropriately) Monster. He later commits suicide in a car at the edge of the narrator's and Hempstock's property, where the barrier between worlds is thinnest, which attracts the attention of a "flea," which leads to a literal monster getting into the boy's house. Almost impossible to notice without a second reading, but the narrator expresses in the first few pages that he produces art sometimes to fill a hole in him. Turns out this hole is more than a metaphor.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_a497eea5	type	Babysitter from Hell
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_a497eea5	comment	Babysitter from Hell: Ursula Monkton, although only to the protagonist and not to his sister, who loves her.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_a5a3ae2b	type	Orifice Invasion
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_a5a3ae2b	comment	Orifice Invasion: How Ursula escapes Lettie's binding the first time and makes into the narrator's life. She went as a worm, burrowing in his foot.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_a68421bb	type	Animated Adaptation
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_a68421bb	comment	Animated Adaptation: Henry Selick considers this Gaiman's best book and wants to direct a stop-motion movie but it was never officially announced.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The narrator's father suffers no repercussions for being abusive, though part of it might have been Ursula's influence. In fact, he and the narrator even mend their relationship as adults!
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_aabb956	type	Mirror Monster
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_aabb956	comment	Mirror Monster: One of the neighbours starts seeing his reflection with fingers poking out of his eyes and crab claws coming out of his throat.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: The Hempstocks make it clear that they don't hate the "fleas", who only act in accordance with their nature and without full understanding of the harm they cause. They're less forgiving of the "varmints".
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: The narrator is shown early on to have the plot of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe memorised. He later imagines himself in his room reading the book word for word so a mind-reading Ursula Monkton wouldn't realize he was escaping out of his window.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Ursula's instinct to play cat-and-mouse gives the narrator the chance to run onto the Hempstocks' farm, where they can easily banish her and keep him safe.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: The narrator's father isn't abusive at first. He said that he would never hit his children, since his father hit him, although he does yell... but after he is influenced by Ursula Monkton, the father finds a way around this by attempting to drown his son in the bathtub. Or maybe not even influenced; when the narrator accuses Ursula of making his father hurt him, she claims that she never 'made any of them do anything'.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Ursula Monkton tries to invoke this when she follows the narrator onto the Hempstocks' property. Lettie orders her to get off her land, to which the "flea" replies she's not technically on her land, as she's floating in the air. Lettie isn't having any of this, though, and chases her off.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_b3bdf232	type	Alien Geometries
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: The pond is an ocean. But it's also a pond that can fit inside a bucket.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_b486877f	type	Squick
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_b486877f	comment	More Squick than painful but we get a graphic description of the narrator pulling a worm-like Ursula Monkton out of a hole in the sole of his foot with a pair of tweezers.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_b869b5b1	type	Color Motif
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_b869b5b1	comment	Color Motif: The flea, in all its forms, has a predominately pink and grey colouration, with variations (such as platinum-blonde hair). Disturbingly and inexplicably, the same colours dominate the narrator's parents' bedroom.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: In February 2013, ahead of the novel's publication, Focus Features acquired the rights to adapt it into a feature film. Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman were announced to be producing through their company Playtone, and Joe Wright was attached to direct. Though this went into Development Hell with no updates since 2019.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_ba557643	type	Terms of Endangerment
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_ba557643	comment	Terms of Endangerment: Ursula Monkton calls the narrator "sweety-weety-pudding-and-pie" right before threatening to lock him in the attic and then make his own father drown him.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_bc5ddda5	type	Thematic Series
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_bc5ddda5	comment	Thematic Series: Word of God says it's the third part of a trilogy with the first two being the graphic novels Violent Cases and Mr. Punch: The Tragical Comedy or the Comical Tragedy.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_c145f69b	comment	Old Mrs. Hempstock tells the narrator it won't hurt a bit as she pulls out a long needle, preparing to extract the last piece of worm in his foot. The narrator naturally doesn't believe her (as he knows that's what grown-ups always say before something hurts a lot), but is pleasantly surprised when it really doesn't hurt a bit.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_c30b3981	type	Mistaken for Prostitute
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_c30b3981	comment	Mistaken for Prostitute: The owner of the Anders farm had a dream that his wife "was doing bad things. To earn money" then woke up and found her handbag full of cash she couldn't explain.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_c3a1e89b	type	Cats Are Magic
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_c3a1e89b	comment	Cats Are Magic: The cat the narrator finds isn't a normal cat. For one thing, it's still alive after forty years. Though that could be because the cat is normal, but time doesn't pass the same way on Hempstock land.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_c691d3f4	type	Offscreen Teleportation
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_c691d3f4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: Ursula Monkton can generally arrive somewhere before the narrator gets there even if there's no logical way she could have got there faster without being seen.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: "... and it's a dangerous thing to be a door". Neverwhere, much?
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_c928d01d	type	Magic Music
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_c928d01d	comment	Magic Music: Lettie tries to bind Ursula by singing in an ancient language to the tune of "Boys and girls come out to play".
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The narrator is never given any name. Even his father usually just calls him "son", though a couple of throw-away comments make it fairly clear that his name is George (Ursula Monkton calls him "pudding-and-pie", in reference to the nursery rhyme "Georgie Porgie Pudding-and-Pie"; his father actually calls him "Handsome George" at one point). His sister, on the other hand, is always just referred to as "my [little] sister". Neither parents get named beyond their relationship to the narrator, and the family's last name is never mentioned.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Skarthach's last words: "I never made any of them do anything". A last mental barb at the narrator? Or was a father really willing to drown his son for a pretty smile?
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_cc8b2fd	type	Ascended Fridge Horror
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_cc8b2fd	comment	Ascended Fridge Horror: The protagonist's sister has this as an adult. She says she liked Ursula Monkton but it was obvious that she was having an affair with their father in hindsight, asking why none of them saw the signs. The narrator thinks it's that no one wanted to believe it, least of all the kids.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_d3b02ffb	type	I Know Your True Name
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_d3b02ffb	comment	I Know Your True Name: Never specifically comes into play, but Ursula chides Lettie for trying to seal her without knowing her name and Lettie goes to a lot of trouble to find it out. She finally does find out what Ursula's real name is Skarthach of the Keep and is able to make Ursula behave herself more after she figures this out.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_d5ae49c3	type	Prescience Is Predictable
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_d5ae49c3	comment	Prescience Is Predictable: After the narrator travels through the pond, Lettie says that knowing everything is boring.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_e2f1ae4b	type	You Won't Feel a Thing!
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_e2f1ae4b	comment	You Won't Feel a Thing!: Old Mrs. Hempstock tells the narrator it won't hurt a bit as she pulls out a long needle, preparing to extract the last piece of worm in his foot. The narrator naturally doesn't believe her (as he knows that's what grown-ups always say before something hurts a lot), but is pleasantly surprised when it really doesn't hurt a bit. Later on, a hunger bird in the for of the opal miner says the same about wiping the narrator from reality.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: A lodger actually did steal Gaiman's father's car in which to kill himself in order to escape his gambling debts.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_e4c0b2b6	type	Primal Scene
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_e4c0b2b6	comment	Primal Scene: The narrator witnesses his father having sex with Ursula Monkton, though he doesn't understand what he's seeing, being seven years old at the time.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_e5d630b7	type	Paper Key-Retrieval Trick
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_e5d630b7	comment	Paper Key-Retrieval Trick: The narrator thinks of doing this after Ursula Monkton locks him in his bedroom because he read it in a book once but she didn't leave the key in the door.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_e68b72	type	The Load
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_e68b72	comment	The Load: The narrator doesn't directly influence the plot. He doesn't instigate it and he's not instrumental to resolving it. He just hangs along and tries to stay alive long enough to be rescued. Justified, since he's seven and is a regular human boy surrounded by reality-warping eldritch abominations.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: The Hempstock women can alter people's memories quite skillfully. Sometimes it's not clear if they altered the memories themselves or actually changed the events.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: The hunger birds don't care about anything except "cleaning" up after the fleas. That means eating not only the thing that escaped and her way home, but also the last piece of the hole inside the narrator's heart. They aren't 'evil' or 'good' - they just are. Lettie also implies this is the case for the fleas themselves - that they don't mean to harm, they are just doing what is part of their nature. They can't help it.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: The narrator's father, and Ursula Monkton herself, were distracted from the narrator's escape by...other activities. At one point the narrator lampshades this, wondering what might have happened if he had been old enough for Ursula to seduce.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: Given what else they can do, it's no surprise that the Hempstock's homecooked food is as good as homecooked food can be, and the narrator makes sure to point this out.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Subverted; the only reason the narrator and his father get along as adults is because he keeps forgetting that his father tried to drown him. Of course, given Granny's actions, that might not have actually happened.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_f528b28d	type	Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_f528b28d	comment	Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: A Humanoid Abomination has sex with the narrator's father.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_f5eda11	type	Mix-and-Match Critters
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_f5eda11	comment	Mix-and-Match Critters: The Hempstock farm has a "Manta wolf", which is basically a hairy manta ray.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_fa686f29	type	Weird Moon
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_fa686f29	comment	Weird Moon: Old Mrs Hempstock makes it so a full moon always shines on a certain side of the house, regardless to what phase the moon is in everywhere else. As the narrator drives away from the farm at the end, he thinks he sees two moons in the sky behind him.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_fbdbc997	type	Human Pet
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_fbdbc997	comment	Human Pet: Ursula Monkton says she considers the narrator's family members her pets.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_fc33ff16	type	One-Winged Angel
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_fc33ff16	comment	One-Winged Angel: Ursula Monkton unfurls "as if she were a flesh-coloured umbrella" into her cloth-like Eldritch Abomination form when Lettie and the narrator try to make her go home.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: You REALLY don't want to get on the bad side of the Hempstock women. They'll feed you, clean you, and treat you like a member of the family if you're in their good graces. Get in their way, and they'll sic horrifying Eldritch Abominations on you.
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