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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. exhibit a, naturally, being Narnia. I even have a timeline now! For series, the date is the year of the first book's publishing.

1865 - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. English, forcible eviction.
1900 - Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. American, chooses to return home.
1904 - Peter Pan (the play) by J. M. Barrie. English, chooses to return home. (The book adaptation was published 1911.)
1950 - Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. English, forcible eviction.
1965 - The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper. English, forcible eviction.

Anyone know of other children's literature, at any point in time, in which the children find a different world and have to leave it at the end?

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[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

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.)

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

HAHA. You've been evicted. FROM LIFE. Because that's what happens when you don't pay the life rent on time XD

In the books, is the return at the end of PC voluntary? I only remember the movie, in which... it kind of was. I think LWW and TLB was the most abrupt evictions, but with the others it's kind of like when people give you the courtesy of resigning before they fire you.