Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
Sula 803 human dilemma rather than a limited and limiting black American experience. Gulshan Taneja morriSon, Toni Sula (1973) S ...
804 Morrison, Toni later, her children’s needs; in fact, Jude’s proposal to her is prompted by Nel’s fierce desire to soothe his ...
Sula 805 comment that she loves Sula but does not like her, which sends the young girl on a self-destructive path while it also ...
806 Morrison, Toni Because of race-specific gender expectations formed by a racist society, Sula Peace’s insistence that she sho ...
Tar Baby 807 Ondine, the black servant who was as young as Margaret when she began working for the Streets. Margaret and Ondine ...
808 Morrison, Toni tions to racial heritage: Son appears to have come from a swamp, carrying with him an animal stench and unkem ...
The Middleman and Other Stories 809 understand that the color of the tar is like the color of the first nameless woman in the Eu ...
810 Mukherjee, Bharati migration. On both sides of the border, the reader discerns a similar range of responses toward others. X ...
The Middleman and Other Stories 811 migrants but fails to realize that, ironically, he too is dependent on them to make a living ...
812 Mukherjee, Bharati immigrants. He despises the fact that he and his kind have become “coolie labor” in their own coun- try. ...
The Middleman and Other Stories 813 land of opportunity becomes one of manipulation. Jasmine, Blanquita, and Rosie become trappe ...
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815 ` Nabokov, vLaDimir Lolita (1955) Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov’s 12th novel (his third in English) is regarded by many as his ma ...
816 Nabokov, Vladimir Before he meets Lolita, Humbert claims that “he had the utmost respect for ordinary children, with their p ...
Lolita 817 When he sees Lolita for the last time, he finds that this has come to pass: Her looks are “ruined,” and she has lost ...
818 Naipaul, V. s. him unable to have normal sexual relations with adult women; any pleasure he gets depends on how closely they ...
A Bend in the River 819 near-anarchy. The narrative focuses on the personal experiences of Salim, the narrator, an Indian Muslim ...
820 Naipaul, V. s. we believed that change was coming to our part of Africa, we couldn’t have done our business.” This argues a ...
A Bend in the River 821 becomes for him the symbol and the space for his hope of a secure and prosperous future: I began to get ...
822 Naipaul, V. s. seek to override not only colonial boundaries but time-honored cultural traditions as well. For Salim, as for ...
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