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This mentality is very much present in Baby Love due to the mores of the time period (and the fact that abortion was illegal and mostly available only to wealthier women. The trope is lampshaded by Helen later on when she points out that most kids would only have broken an arm or leg when they fell.

As a result, she's noticeably immature for her age, which is part of the reason Kim and her gang bully her. Tracy also mentions that before going to the "Dumping Ground", she lived with "Aunt" Peggy: a foster carer who frequently hit her and yelled at her. Lily and her siblings are forgiving of their mother in Lily Alone, despite the fact that their problems were both directly and indirectly her fault.She eventually has it cut in a pageboy bob, as a signal of her breaking free from her father's domineering and painful influence and the confidence that can bloom as a result of it.

Mab in Project Fairy mentions that her little brother is so popular with his classmates that both the girls and boys want him to be their "boyfriend.Broken Pedestal: Phoebe in The Primrose Railway Children looks up to her dad, but she becomes disillusioned and angry when she finds out he's in prison and doesn't even want to visit him. Defeat Equals Friendship: The Longest Whale Song has Ella becoming friends with Martha after getting into a fight with her.

A lot of the characters in her books forgive their friends and loved ones extremely easily: Garnet forgives Ruby almost instantaneously for all of her bullying, Tracy treats her mother like an angel despite all the pain she causes her, and the one time Jade doesn't forgive her best friend Vicky for being horrible to her, she dies. Later after he deliberately runs over a badger with a tractor, she admits to Pearl that she knew he was a horrible person deep down but ignored it, liking the attention. Seeing as she applies this whole lifestyle choice inside and outside while living in a council estate, it does make you wonder how tough her feet are, and if not, how she doesn't give herself a massive injury.He is shown to be very sweet caring towards all of his students and genuinely in touch with their world's, and even the meanest, scariest girls at school like and respect him. Lame Pun Reaction - Elsa gets a number of these in The Bed and Breakfast Star; she wants to be a comedian, but all the jokes she knows are incredibly cheesy.

An early novel that Wilson based on this theme was Amber, in which the title character struggles to lead a normal life in spite of her mother's irresponsible hippy/"groupie" lifestyle. In the present day, he's married to Suzy but in a mutually abusive relationship with her, and is hostile when his daughter Sunset tries to tell him that Destiny is his daughter. Bittersweet Ending - Things generally get better for the protagonists throughout the course of the story, but often they have to acknowledge that life isn't perfect and/or sacrifice something important by the end.Fiery Redhead - Charlie and Lottie in The Lottie Project, Hetty Feather, and Vicky in Vicky Angel all count. In Queenie, Elsie's mother neglected her to go out partying, leading to Elsie being taken to an orphanage and later adopted by her grandmother. Barred from the Afterlife - The title character of Vicky Angel, causing her to linger on earth and haunt her best friend.