#TVTROPES BURN THE ROPE SERIES#
A rare positive example is used in the first book of the Alfie the Werewolf series to show how becoming a werewolf has changed Alfie for the better.When she is finally able to climb the rope at the climax of the book, she's so happy that she screams, "O world! I cannot hold thee close enough!", flings her arms out - and falls. At the same time, her English teacher is having her memorize a poem that begins with "O world! I cannot hold thee close enough!", insisting that she flings her arms out when she says the line. In Anastasia Has the Answers, Anastasia is frustrated because she's the only girl in her class who can't climb the rope in gym, so she practices at home on a rope she hangs from the ceiling.When he's transported to Fantasia where his wishes are fulfilled and becames physically perfect, he recalls it with amusement. In The Neverending Story, this was among the many situations in which Bastian was humiliated in school.
But when she opens her eyes, she realizes that for all her effort she's still on the bottom knot. Once, she tries climbing with her eyes closed so she can concentrate without seeing the laughing faces of her classmates, and seems to have gotten high. In Witch Week, Nan is continuously humiliated by her inability to climb the rope.In The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School by Kim Newman, the rope climb is a trope-standard pit of horrors, but the protagonist avoids the worst of it by judicious use of her floating-in-the-air superpower.In the first book, Dick is glad he is so good at gym at school when he slides down a rope. The Famous Five: the Five regularly climb ropes on their adventures.
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