Caroline Wolff
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Caroline Wolff is the long-suffering yet resilient mother in Tobias Wolff’s memoir and its film adaptation "This Boy’s Life," struggling to build a better life for herself and her son amid abusive relationships and instability.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Caroline Wolff canonical | 1 |
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
This Boy's Life
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surface form:
This Boy’s Life
This Boy's Life ⓘ
surface form:
This Boy’s Life (film)
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| appearsInGenre |
coming-of-age drama
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memoir adaptation ⓘ |
| basedOn | Tobias Wolff’s real-life mother ⓘ |
| centralThemeAssociation |
domestic abuse
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mother–son relationship ⓘ search for stability ⓘ single motherhood ⓘ |
| characterCreatedBy | Tobias Wolff ⓘ |
| facesChallenge |
abusive relationships
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economic instability ⓘ frequent relocations ⓘ |
| familyRelation | mother of Jack Wolff ⓘ |
| hasRole | mother of Tobias Wolff ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
determined
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long-suffering ⓘ protective ⓘ resilient ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | protagonist’s mother ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Caroline Kava ⓘ |
| primaryGoal | to build a better life for herself and her son ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 1950s United States ⓘ |
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