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Twenty One Balloons

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Twenty One Balloons	comment	The Twenty-One Balloons (sometimes stylized as The 21 Balloons) is a 1947 children's comedy-adventure novel by William Pene Du Bois.Set in 1883, it concerns a schoolteacher/adventurer, William Waterman Sherman, who decides to get away from it all by building a hot-air balloon capable of supporting a small house and setting off on a leisurely round-the-world vacation. Less than a week into his journey, the balloon is forced to crash-land on the island of Krakatoa, where Sherman discovers that a group of eccentric billionaires have created their own tiny society based around food and the shared wealth of a vast diamond mine hidden at the base of the volcano. Sherman becomes a permanent guest of the island, sharing both their secret and a portion of the diamond mines. Unfortunately, he has arrived barely a week before Krakatoa famously blows its top.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })If the plot sounds familiar, it's because F. Scott Fitzgerald published "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," which is essentially a much Darker and Edgier version of the same story, in 1922. Du Bois was informed of the similarity shortly before publication and swore up and down that it was sheer coincidence (even though he found it amusing that both he and Fitzgerald had the same dream of using their infinite wealth to be slid directly from bed into a hot bath). So far as anyone can tell, the resemblance really is just coincidence, and the lighthearted tone of The Twenty-One Balloons, as well as its target audience, is far removed from Fitzgerald's black-comedy adult parable about greed.
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Twenty One Balloons / int_2f5b9954	comment	Alphabetical Theme Naming: All the Krakatoans have given up their real names and are known only by initials: father Mr. A, mother Mrs. A, children A-1 and A-2, all the way down to T.
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Twenty One Balloons / int_38b9969	type	The MÃ¼nchausen
Twenty One Balloons / int_38b9969	comment	The Munchausen: Subverted. It seems as if Sherman will become a disbelieved ex-adventurer, but at the very end, just as his audience begins to express doubt, Professor Sherman produces the diamonds.
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Twenty One Balloons / int_3a5b6da	type	All Balloons Have Helium
Twenty One Balloons / int_3a5b6da	comment	All Balloons Have Helium: Subverted. The mechanics and practicality of the various balloon inventions in the book are very accurately and carefully described. Some of them might even work in the real world!
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Twenty One Balloons / int_3ee5fd12	type	One-Letter Name
Twenty One Balloons / int_3ee5fd12	comment	One-Letter Name: The Krakatoans all take alphabetical names from A to T. Sherman is discouraged from doing the same, as being called "U" would lead to pronoun confusion.
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Twenty One Balloons / int_63cad64b	type	Threatening Shark
Twenty One Balloons / int_63cad64b	comment	Threatening Shark: A school of sharks appears under the professor as his balloon is on the verge of crashing into the sea.
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Twenty One Balloons / int_66f59ad	type	Balloonacy
Twenty One Balloons / int_66f59ad	comment	Balloonacy: Happens to a small child during Sherman's homecoming celebration.
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Twenty One Balloons / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
Twenty One Balloons / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: At the end of his story, Sherman plans to rebuild his balloon and continue his original adventure.
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Twenty One Balloons / int_83856158	type	Worthless Yellow Rocks
Twenty One Balloons / int_83856158	comment	Worthless Yellow Rocks: The diamonds are completely worthless on Krakatoa, where everyone is equally wealthy and there is nothing to buy—and taking the diamonds off the island would render them just as worthless everywhere else.
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Twenty One Balloons / int_83a0e89a	type	Steampunk Gadgeteers
Twenty One Balloons / int_83a0e89a	comment	Steampunk Gadgeteers: The entire M family. They're engineers who have outfitted their luxurious home with tremendously fun cutting-edge technology, all of which runs on steam.
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Twenty One Balloons / int_9058da25	type	Nuclear Family
Twenty One Balloons / int_9058da25	comment	Nuclear Family: All the Krakatoan families were selected to fit into this trope, in order to insure genetic diversity. All families have a mother, a father, and a boy and a girl within a particular age range.
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Twenty One Balloons / int_a8de2a46	type	Eccentric Millionaire
Twenty One Balloons / int_a8de2a46	comment	Eccentric Millionaire: The inhabitants of Krakatoa have chosen to exist apart from the rest of society, under a "restaurant government" complete with its own twenty-day calendar, with no responsibilities other than creating exotic and incredible luxuries for their own consumption.
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Twenty One Balloons / int_aa4aea64	type	Mistaken for Afterlife
Twenty One Balloons / int_aa4aea64	comment	Mistaken for Afterlife: After he awakens from his crash to find a man standing over him, Professor Sherman thinks he's in heaven. The man informs him that he's on Krakatoa.
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Twenty One Balloons / int_b51128fa	type	Gilded Cage
Twenty One Balloons / int_b51128fa	comment	Gilded Cage: Sherman is told on arrival that he is now a permanent guests of Krakatoa. Subverted in that, once he sees the diamond mines, he is quickly overwhelmed with the same fever as the other Krakatoans and no longer wants to leave. Inverted: the lure of the diamonds also keeps the Krakatoans themselves from leaving, in spite of the fact that they are now trapped on an isolated, inhospitable island where all their wealth is worthless.
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Twenty One Balloons / int_cf6d4bad	type	Steampunk
Twenty One Balloons / int_cf6d4bad	comment	Steam Punk: Many of the island's inventions run on steam.
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Twenty One Balloons / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Twenty One Balloons / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Krakatoa is a real volcanic island that did explosively erupt in 1883, briefly encircling the entire planet with its debris.
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Twenty One Balloons / int_e9d6eff8	type	Cool Airship
Twenty One Balloons / int_e9d6eff8	comment	Cool Airship: Sherman's balloon-house is described in exquisite detail: perfectly engineered to be operated by one person for an indefinite amount of time, stocked with lightweight furniture and trimmed with balsa wood. Even his mattress is made of balloon silk and filled with helium, so that it floats up to the ceiling for daytime storage.
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