Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
The Giver 723 Fate in The Giver In the opening of Lois Lowry’s The Giver, the pro- tagonist Jonas is worrying about his future. ...
724 Machiavelli, Niccolò televisions, cars—is rare or absent in the wider com- munity; instead, the emphasis is on simple, com- ...
The Prince 725 was written in 1513 during a year of forced exile for its author but was not published until 1532, five years aft ...
726 Machiavelli, Niccolò argue that a subversion of values was far from the mind of this much maligned yet celebrated Flo- renti ...
The Prince 727 He also developed a deep-rooted belief in the inability of the common man to rise above his immediate interests—h ...
728 Malamud, Bernard his citizens. Such a clear delimitation of the role of a prince in a society requires that he meet his obli ...
The Natural 729 The film version has Hobbs coming through with a prodigious home run to win, but the novel has a beaten Hobbs wa ...
730 Malamud, Bernard scandalous Sox, banned from baseball and the Hall of Fame, and asked the player “Say it ain’t so, Joe.” At ...
The Natural 731 now to get three good swings, to give his best. How- ever, his best is not good enough and he goes down on strik ...
732 Marlowe, Christopher logo from Hobbs’s bat into a patch they wear on their sleeves. Baseball players can be a superstitious ...
Doctor Faustus 733 desire to share his good fortune in plans to build a protective brass wall around Germany, drive the invading ...
734 Marlowe, Christopher To put it simply, because of his pride, Faustus seeks only a profession that will make him “a mighty go ...
Brown Girl, Brownstones 735 against false doctrines and independent thought. In the opening scene, when Faustus ponders his choi ...
736 Marshall, Paule to thrive in Brooklyn, the father lost in a dream of Caribbean grandeur. The mother triumphs, but only at th ...
Brown Girl, Brownstones 737 than bifurcate, the ways of “the mother” and the father. Although she will not choose the path of he ...
738 Marshall, Paule a nigger after all,” does Selina realize her oneness with Miss Thompson, with “the whores” and the “flashy m ...
All the Pretty Horses 739 poor immigrants in a hostile white world. Suggie’s passion-filled Saturday nights “nullify” her week o ...
740 McCarthy, Cormac view of love is challenged, Blevins’s execution alters his conception of human morality. When Blevins is un ...
All the Pretty Horses 741 Blevins’s prophecy that he would be struck “sure as the world” is fulfilled in the novel in the sense ...
742 McCullers, Carson taking command of that wild spirit. Another way this ardent lifestyle is challenged in the text is when an ...
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