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The Story of the Treasure Seekers

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The Story of the Treasure Seekers	comment	The Treasure Seekers is a juvenile by E. Nesbit.The Bastables are a family of six: Dora Bastable, the 'good big sister'. Oswald Bastable, the oldest boy and 'head of the family' in his father's absence. Dickie Bastable, Oswald's loyal shadow. The Twins, tomboy Alice and sickly Noel and Horace Octavius Bastable, understandably known to his siblings as H.O.They live in a semi-detached on the Lewisham road — a suburb of London — with their father. Their mother died just a year or so ago and things have gone very wrong with their father's business and they have no money so the children decide to go treasure hunting to repair the fortunes of The House of Bastable. Hilarity EnsuesThere are two sequels: The Wouldbegoods in which the well meaning Bastables wreck havoc trying to do good deeds; and The New Treasure Seekers in which they try various means to get money for the kindly and — they think — very poor lady they are staying with. As usual, things never turn out as expected.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_130436b9	comment	Annoying Younger Sibling - H.O. works at being this
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator - The story is narrated by one of the children, who, apart from attempting to shade things to present himself in a better light, frequently misunderstands the situations the children find themselves in.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_1b9079be	type	Snooping Little Kid
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_1b9079be	comment	Snooping Little Kid - Alice, Dickie and especially Oswald get into terrible trouble when they play detective investigating the odd lights in the supposedly empty house next door.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy - The Bastables have read all the right kind of books - and imagine real life is like every one of them.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_27a047a6	type	Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_27a047a6	comment	Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born - Alice and Noel are twins.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_379dcdf2	type	Cowboys and Indians
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_379dcdf2	comment	Cowboys and Indians - The Bastables' version is to play highwaymen. They take Albert-Next-Door prisoner and hold him for ransom.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_3c51db1c	type	Zany Scheme
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_3c51db1c	comment	Zany Scheme - ALL the ways the Bastables try to get treasure count as this.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_57efd4c4	type	Growing Up Sucks
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_57efd4c4	comment	Growing Up Sucks - In Oswald's opinion it makes you dull and irritating - like Dora.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_58970bae	type	PromotedToParent
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_58970bae	comment	Promoted to Parent - The Bastables' dying mother asked Dora to 'take care' of her younger siblings. She does her best but she's only a child herself and nobody listens to her anyway. This becomes a plot point in the chapter where the children try to earn money by selling wine.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar - In-universe; when the kids are alternating chapters of a serial story, Noel names the hero "Noeloninuris". When Oswald gets a chapter, he retcons the name to "Osrawalddo".
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_822ff0d7	type	Relative Error
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_822ff0d7	comment	Relative Error: Lampshaded by the narrator.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_84c5ec0b	type	Free-Range Children
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_84c5ec0b	comment	Free-Range Children - Is anybody keeping an eye on this bunch? Apparently not. Father is busy with his failing business and their 'general' or maid of all work is happy to get them out from underfoot.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_88574a	type	Narrator All Along
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_88574a	comment	Narrator All Along - Played for Laughs. The narrator keeps praising one of the main characters as being so clever and brave, and how it isn't his fault when things go wrong. Then the narrator begins forgetting to use the grammatical third person...
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_8af7b342	type	Sibling Yin-Yang
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_8af7b342	comment	Sibling Yin-Yang - The twins Alice and Noel couldn't be more different; she's a tomboy accepted as an equal by Oswald and Dickie but Noel is considered on of the 'little kids' being dreamy and rather sickly. Dora and Oswald, the two eldest, are a bit like this too; her all responsible and concerned about consequences and him impulsive and adventurous.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent - and maybe just a trifle dim and young for their ages - by 21st c. standards.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_95cb808c	type	Young Entrepreneur
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_95cb808c	comment	Young Entrepreneur - One of several ways the Bastables try to mend their family fortune.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_9766cac3	type	Curious as a Monkey
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_9766cac3	comment	Curious as a Monkey - Dickie likes to take things apart to see how they work. Sometimes he succeeds in putting them back together.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_a63f45d5	type	Cool Uncle
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_a63f45d5	comment	Cool Uncle - dull Albert-Next-Door has the coolest uncle ever, the Bastables call him 'Albert's Uncle' and turn to him whenever things get completely out of control - in other words frequently.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: The Reverend Mr. Ashleigh, brother of Albert's Uncle's Long-Lost, is oh so much this. The children don't quite know how to take it.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: There's a scene in which the children attempt to act out part of The Jungle Book. It's worth noting that The Wouldbegoods was published just five years after The Jungle Book.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_cfc52d52	type	Spoiled Brat
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_cfc52d52	comment	Spoiled Brat - Albert-Next-Door is so this.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_d3145d69	type	Blanket Fort
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_d3145d69	comment	Blanket Fort - The Bastables build themselves one of these the day Oswald, Dickie and Alice decide to be detectives.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_d53ad027	type	Cheerful Child
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_d53ad027	comment	Cheerful Child - Despite losing their mother and being poor the young Bastables are relentlessly upbeat and not at all sorry for themselves. Most adults take to them - which is just as well.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_d583df82	type	Nurse with Good Intentions
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_d583df82	comment	Nurse with Good Intentions - The kids decide they want to invent medicine. So they try goofing around in the cold until one of them gets sick. Eventually, one of them does and they try to give him all sorts of medicines... but none work and he just gets worse. Needless to say, the adult who discovers this mess is not amused.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_e598d4ac	type	Innocent Inaccurate
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_e598d4ac	comment	Innocent Inaccurate - The young Bastables clearly do not grasp the full direness of their father's situation or how it came about.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_e63270bc	type	Mr. Imagination
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_e63270bc	comment	Mr. Imagination - Five of them to be exact. Dora, the eldest, is the only one with any kind of grip on reality. Of course this makes her a terrible wet-blanket in the eyes of her siblings.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_e7fc5c61	type	Family Honor
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_e7fc5c61	comment	Family Honor - Oswald especially often goes on about the 'honour' of the House of Bastable.
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_f3594e1	type	The All-Concealing "I"
The Story of the Treasure Seekers / int_f3594e1	comment	The All-Concealing "I" - Attempted by the narrator, not very effectively; the narrator is a child and is only concealing their identity as a game for the reader.
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