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[be_themoon]

Apparently, when I have no school to do but yet need something to do - I do sort-of school anyways. In this case, research for a paper that might never get written, about the prevalence of children's stories in which at the end most/all of the protagonists either choose to leave or are forcibly kicked out of the fantasy land they have found.

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[redsilverchains]

But Dorothy later goes back to live in Oz, right?

The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper. English, forcible eviction.
Of all the leavings, this one upset me the most. :(

Pamela Dean's Secret Country Trilogy was the first thing I thought of. It was first published in 1985.

[redsilverchains]

--The Secret Country Trilogy has American kids.

Oh, and also, William Corlett's Magician's House Quartet, 1990. It's set in England.

[be_themoon]

apparently she does! I had not previously been aware of this - I see that I shall have to look into this more. :D

I knowww! I just read Silver On The Tree yesterday, and I was quite upset.

[be_themoon]

hmm! I suppose I could, though I have never personally read them.

[be_themoon]

SUCH THINGS SHOULD BE EVERYWHERE :DDD

I do! through my college's database! FABULOUS. :DDD it is quite an interesting article - I like it!

I do not know what I am writing about, to be honest - I just know that someday I will get a chance to write this essay and it will be fantastic fun. And that is true - I suppose one could make arguments for only LWW being a forcible eviction, but then how much choice are they truly given in the others? it seems like very little to me. (except, of course, The Horse and His Boy and The Last Battle, though I think The Last Battle could count as forcible eviction from life, so.)

[be_themoon]

... I'm currently reading an article where the author suggests that by simply not writing about sexual desire in Narnia, he leaves the way open for speculation. and then goes on to suggest that since one of his sources was The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson, in which the boy and girl who are like brother and sister at the beginning kiss at the end, incest is a probability. ACADEMIA BACKS US UP, LASS

[burntcopper]

/faraway tree, enid blyton?

[be_themoon]

I have not read these books! they look nice. how does the ending go?

[metonomia]

His Dark Materials - maybe not quite what you're looking for, but I think it fits, how in the end Lyra and Will both have to go back to their own worlds, or die.

[metonomia]

PS, I forgot to say - I think that's a really awesome topic! Good luck with it! Yay scholarly pursuit!

[be_themoon]

scholarly pursuiiiiit! it is fun and fascinating. :D His Dark Materials does fit, though perhaps not quite as easily as the others. still, they are definitely banished - from each other, and from the various worlds. hmmm. *works into equations*