Darkest Hour: After having started a brawl at a public auction, the brothers expect imprisonment.Cycle of Revenge: During the story, one emerges between the Jukola brothers and the men of Toukola, resulting in several injuries, but no loss of life.Corporal Punishment: Eero gets spanked at times by his older brothers when his jesting annoys them too much.The land is normal forest again when the brothers' story begins. Contrived Coincidence: In the beginning, The Narrator tells that prior to the book's events, when the lands were redistributed in the great partition, the farsighted founder of the Jukola farm had agreed to take a burnt-down forest, and this way had received more land than others.When Simeoni shares his alcohol-induced revelation, which includes reading the Devil's personal greetings on a piece of leather, Juhani in particular gets anxious about this story, but Timo comments on that Simeoni has learned to read during the journey.Juhani then explains to him that the story originates from an older time, when animals still could. Timo wonders how can the others believe Aapo's story about a fox and a bear, because animals can't talk.Catapult Nightmare: Lauri bounds up from the ground when he wakes from his scary dream.Kyösti Tammisto takes the role in the brawl at the auction, when the brothers are outnumbered. Brutish Bulls: A hunting trip goes off the rails due to forty of these.Brutal Honesty: The drunken Lauri on the rock.Later, his wife also experiences that while the man can take a lot of nagging, his patience can give out, and then it is better to hide. In the last brawl with Toukola men toward the end of the story, Lauri is described as the most fierce fighter, 'pale as an angel of death', that no one can stand up to. Their father, too, killed over fifty bears during his lifetime, and when he was finally killed by one himself, it was a Mutual Kill. Bears Are Bad News: Inverted, as the Hunter Trapper brothers are bad news for bears, although they too know to treat this game with respect.They return over a week later, empty-handed, with all the money wasted on more liquor and pastries in the city, and with their horse suffering from lack of food. Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: After the brothers have begun farming, and making their own spirits from the grain (and drinking it), Simeoni and Eero are sent to the city to sell rye and spirits and buy high-quality food and drink so that the brothers can properly celebrate Michaelmas.Agony of the Feet: The brothers must run barefoot through freezing-temperature snow to seek shelter after their Impivaara house burns down on Christmas night.

This work provides examples of the following tropes: It is now a public domain work, and various translations are currently available here. As an important piece of national identity, the novel is still required school reading in Finnish secondary level education. The work is regarded as the first novel in Finnish language, and it paved way for Finnish literature and realistic portrayal of Finnish people. Eero: The Gadfly who likes to tease his older brothers.

Lauri: The Quiet One, preferring solitary activities and sticking to his decisions.

Timo: The Ditz of the group, Literal-Minded.

While all brothers are Christian, Simeoni takes it more seriously.

Tuomas: The Big Guy, although all brothers are strong build.

Aapo: The Smart Guy, often The Face, and also The Storyteller.

Hair-Trigger Temper, but fortunately lends an ear to his more level-headed brothers, particularly Aapo.

Juhani: The Leader, naturally since he is the eldest brother, but also agreed upon explicitly.

The main characters, the seven brothers, have individual traits which can be described by the following tropes:

Seven brothers