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* BurialAtSea: [[spoiler:Bloody Bill]] is shot while he and Ralph are fleeing from the pirates' failed raid on the natives. The two make it safely to the ship, but he dies the next day. Ralph dies a cannonball to his legs and drops him overboard.
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* BurialAtSea: [[spoiler:Bloody Bill]] is shot while he and Ralph are fleeing from the pirates' failed raid on the natives. The two make it safely to the ship, but he dies the next day. Ralph dies ties a cannonball to his legs and drops him overboard.
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* EasyEvangelism: The people of the inhabited islands are much more eager to adopt European religious and cultural practices than they probably were in real life. One example comes near the end of the book, when Ralph, Jack, and Peterkin have been captured by angry cannibals and are held prisoner in a cave for a week while they wait to be eaten. [[spoiler:Then they're suddenly freed. A missionary arrived while they were imprisoned and converted the whole tribe in days. The boys leave the cave to find the old idols being thrown into a bonfire while thousands of natives cheer. By the time they leave the island, the natives have marked out plots to build European-style houses.]]
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* EasyEvangelism: The people of the inhabited islands are much more eager to adopt European religious and cultural practices than they probably usually were in real life. One example comes near the end of the book, when Ralph, Jack, and Peterkin have been captured by angry cannibals and are held prisoner in a cave for a week while they wait to be eaten. [[spoiler:Then they're suddenly freed. A missionary arrived while they were imprisoned and converted the whole tribe in days. The boys leave the cave to find the old idols being thrown into a bonfire while thousands of natives cheer. By the time they leave the island, the natives have marked out plots to build European-style houses.]]
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''The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean'' is a 1857 novel by R.M. Ballantyne that follows the adventures of three adolescent boys - Ralph Rover, Jack Martin, and Peterkin Gay - who are shipwrecked on a DesertedIsland in the South Seas.
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''The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean'' is a 1857 novel by R.M. Ballantyne that follows the adventures of three adolescent boys - Ralph Rover, Jack Martin, and Peterkin Gay - who are shipwrecked on a DesertedIsland in the South Seas.
Seas. They explore the island, and later meet natives, pirates, and missionaries.
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* ArrangedMarriage: The tribal chief Tararo has betrothed his adopted daughter Avatea to another chief she doesn't love. She wants to marry a different chief, who has converted to Christianity, but Tararo tells her that if she doesn't agree to go to her betrothed to be married, he'll send her to him to be eaten.
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* EasyEvangelism: The people of the inhabited islands are much more eager to adopt European religious and cultural practices than they probably were in real life. One example comes near the end of the book, when Ralph, Jack, and Peterkin have been captured by angry cannibals and are held prisoner in a cave for a week while they wait to be eaten. [[spoiler:Then they're suddenly freed. A missionary arrived while they were imprisoned and converted the whole tribe in days. The boys leave the cave to find the old idols being thrown into a bonfire while thousands of natives cheer. By the time they leave the island, the natives have marked out plots to build European-style houses.]]
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* BurialAtSea: [[spoiler:Bloody Bill]] is shot while he and Ralph are fleeing from the pirates' failed raid on the natives. The two make it safely to the ship, but he dies the next day. Ralph dies a cannonball to his legs and drops him overboard.
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''The Coral Island'' is a 1857 novel by R.M. Ballantyne that follows the adventures of three adolescent boys - Ralph Rover, Jack Martin, and Peterkin Gay - who are shipwrecked on a DesertedIsland in the South Seas.
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''The Coral Island'' Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean'' is a 1857 novel by R.M. Ballantyne that follows the adventures of three adolescent boys - Ralph Rover, Jack Martin, and Peterkin Gay - who are shipwrecked on a DesertedIsland in the South Seas.
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* BriarPatching: Attempted by Ralph when pirates arrive on the island. The boys hide out in a cave with an underwater entrance, and when Ralph comes out to see if it's safe, the pirates grab him and interrogate him as to the location of his two friends. Ralph says, "Villain, to blow my brains out would make short work of me, and be soon over. Death by drowning is as sure, and the agony prolonged, yet, I tell you to your face, if you were to toss me over yonder cliff into the sea, I would not tell you where my companions are, and I dare you to try me!" in the hopes that they'll throw him into the ocean and he can swim back to the cave. The pirate captain almost has Ralph thrown into the ocean, but changes his mind at the last minute, and decides to kidnap Ralph and put him to work as a CabinBoy instead.
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* BriarPatching: Attempted by Ralph when pirates arrive on the island. The boys hide out in a cave with an underwater entrance, and when Ralph comes out to see if it's safe, the pirates grab him and interrogate him as to the location of his two friends. Ralph says, "Villain, to blow my brains out would make short work of me, and be soon over. Death by drowning is as sure, and the agony prolonged, yet, I tell you to your face, if you were to toss me over yonder cliff into the sea, I would not tell you where my companions are, and I dare you to try me!" in the hopes that they'll throw him into the ocean and he can swim back to the cave. The pirate captain almost has Ralph thrown into the ocean, but changes his mind at the last minute, and decides to kidnap Ralph and put him to work as a CabinBoy TheCabinBoy instead.
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* AbandonedArea: The boys keep finding evidence that a European was here before, such as a tree stump with initials carved into it and an elderly stray house cat that Peterkin adopts. Eventually they find a small, run-down hut that's on the verge of collapsing. When they go inside, they find the skeletons of a man and a dog [[TogetherInDeath lying together on a bedstead]].
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* AbandonedArea: The boys keep finding evidence that a European was here before, such as a tree stump with initials carved into it and an elderly stray house cat that Peterkin adopts. Eventually they find a small, run-down hut that's on the verge of collapsing. When they go inside, they find the skeletons of a man and a dog [[TogetherInDeath lying together on a bedstead]].bedstead]].
* BriarPatching: Attempted by Ralph when pirates arrive on the island. The boys hide out in a cave with an underwater entrance, and when Ralph comes out to see if it's safe, the pirates grab him and interrogate him as to the location of his two friends. Ralph says, "Villain, to blow my brains out would make short work of me, and be soon over. Death by drowning is as sure, and the agony prolonged, yet, I tell you to your face, if you were to toss me over yonder cliff into the sea, I would not tell you where my companions are, and I dare you to try me!" in the hopes that they'll throw him into the ocean and he can swim back to the cave. The pirate captain almost has Ralph thrown into the ocean, but changes his mind at the last minute, and decides to kidnap Ralph and put him to work as a CabinBoy instead.
* BriarPatching: Attempted by Ralph when pirates arrive on the island. The boys hide out in a cave with an underwater entrance, and when Ralph comes out to see if it's safe, the pirates grab him and interrogate him as to the location of his two friends. Ralph says, "Villain, to blow my brains out would make short work of me, and be soon over. Death by drowning is as sure, and the agony prolonged, yet, I tell you to your face, if you were to toss me over yonder cliff into the sea, I would not tell you where my companions are, and I dare you to try me!" in the hopes that they'll throw him into the ocean and he can swim back to the cave. The pirate captain almost has Ralph thrown into the ocean, but changes his mind at the last minute, and decides to kidnap Ralph and put him to work as a CabinBoy instead.
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* KickTheDog: One of the pirates swings Peterkin's cat around by the tail before tossing it into the ocean. Jack says, "You see what we may expect. The man who will wantonly kill a poor brute for sport will think little of murdering a fellow-creature."
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* FarSideIsland: The lagoon around the island contains a number of tiny islands, some with a single coconut tree growing on them. The castaways visit some of those islands after they build a boat for themselves.
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* FarSideIsland: The lagoon around the island contains a number of tiny islands, some with a single one or two coconut tree trees growing on them. The castaways visit some of those islands after they build a boat for themselves.
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* ThreateningShark: The castaways paddle into the lagoon on a log to fish, only to find themselves pursued by a shark. They briefly distract it by throwing the fish they've caught at it. Then Jack beats it off with a paddle, upsetting the log and dumping the three of them into the water. By that point they're close enough to swim to shore before the shark gets close to them again, but they never venture into the lagoon again until they've built a proper boat.
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* AbandonedArea: The boys keep finding evidence that a European was here before, such as a tree stump with initials carved into it and an elderly stray house cat that Peterkin adopts. Eventually they find a small, run-down hut that's on the verge of collapsing. When they go inside, they find the skeletons of a man and a dog [[TogetherInDeath lying together on a bedstead]].
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* FarSideIsland: The lagoon around the island contains a number of tiny islands, some with a single coconut tree growing on them. The castaways visit some of those islands after they build a boat for themselves.
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Not to be confused with ''VideoGame/CoralIsland''.
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* SolarPoweredMagnifyingGlass: One of the objects the boys bring from the sinking ship is a spyglass. One lens is broken, but they use the other to light fires.
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''The Coral Island'' is a 1857 novel by R.M. Ballantyne that follows the adventures of three adolescent boys - Ralph Rover, Jack Martin, and Peterkin Gay - who are shipwrecked on a DesertedIsland in the South Seas.
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!!''The Coral Island'' contains examples of:
* NostalgicNarrator: Ralph narrates as an older man who fondly remembers his time on the island.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Ralph Rover's real last name is never mentioned. "Rover" is a nickname he received when he was apprentice to a coasting vessel because of his love of travel.
* TaughtByTelevision: Jack reads a lot of adventure novels, which helps him identify many of the plants and animals on the island.
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!!''The Coral Island'' contains examples of:
* NostalgicNarrator: Ralph narrates as an older man who fondly remembers his time on the island.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Ralph Rover's real last name is never mentioned. "Rover" is a nickname he received when he was apprentice to a coasting vessel because of his love of travel.
* TaughtByTelevision: Jack reads a lot of adventure novels, which helps him identify many of the plants and animals on the island.
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