Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

To Kill a Mockingbird 703 often calls Tom to perform various odds and ends as a pretense so she can talk to him, until one night ...

704 Lessing, Doris her with the same disdain Mayella Ewell shows Tom Robinson, for example. Rather, Scout has an appreciation fo ...

The Golden Notebook 705 Lessing has noted that, although she thought the name of her novel clearly indicated what she intended t ...

706 Lessing, Doris vulnerable Anna been born?” The question is soon answered by herself. “She knew: it was when Michael had aban ...

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 707 step further in the effort to make all the sides of her personality into a more integra ...

708 Lewis, C. s. Though second in the chronological order of the series after The Magician’s Nephew, it was published first, in ...

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 709 knights; Aslan uses this sword, which recalls other famous swords such as Excalibur and ...

710 Lewis, C. s. sit enthroned over Narnia—which are parallels to prophecies of the Old Testament of the Bible), it seems that E ...

Main Street 711 winter is the form evil has taken in Narnia. The White Witch controls the country through nature: The natural en ...

712 Lewis, sinclair such as Madeline Usher, the sister of Roderick Usher in “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and the unnamed wi ...

Main Street 713 the ambiguity of romantic literature, but with a great deal of ambivalence. In short, Lewis presents family life ...

714 Lewis, sinclair and also as a result of the gentle encouragement of her husband, Carol finally returns to Gopher Prai- rie. ...

The Call of the Wild 715 Erik’s father, unjustly accuses Carol of seductively luring Erik away from life on the farm: “Women lik ...

716 London, Jack the man tells him “you’ve learned your place, and I know mine.  .  . . fearlessly pat[ting]” Buck on the head. ...

The Call of the Wild 717 places him in conflict—he’s caught in the middle between his two identities. Buck well understands that ...

718 London, Jack creatures. Along with becoming sleeker and stron- ger—with feet that had grown “hard to the trail”— Buck’s dige ...

White Fang 719 of White Fang had been molded until he became what he was, morose and lonely, unloving and fero- cious, the enemy ...

720 London, Jack Bill’s sled and their dogs, tormenting them with the inevitability of being killed, one by one. It is ominous a ...

The Giver 721 call, the call of the fire and of man.” She returns to camp, leaving White Fang whimpering softly with confusion a ...

722 Lowry, Lois Family in The Giver In the futuristic world that Lois Lowry creates for her novel, The Giver, the family is a ve ...