Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
A House for Mr. Biswas 823 In the Domain Africans—the young men at the polytechnic—were romantics.” Salim realizes how the spiri ...
824 Naipaul, V. s. IndIvIduaL and SocIety in A House for Mr. Biswas It might be too much to call Mr. Biswas, the hero of V. S. N ...
A House for Mr. Biswas 825 to read Marcus Aurelius; write short stories; and, in general, act in ways totally unbecoming a Tulsi ...
826 Naipaul, V. s. even attempting to lay claim to one’s portion of the earth.” Here he enjoys a measure of success over fate an ...
The Women of Brewster Place 827 a correspondence course that instructs him to write pieces on “Guy Fawkes Night, Some Village Su ...
828 Naylor, Gloria her life to pay for” and is forced to move to Brewster Place. The other characters’ versions of pursuing the ...
The Women of Brewster Place 829 when tempers flare. Mattie’s matriarchal position in Brewster Place is important, particularly g ...
830 O’Brien, Tim the preacher who plays “the game” better than she; Eugene, who deserts Ciel after the death of their child; and ...
Going after Cacciato 831 “realities.” While the novel seems to begin at the level of Paul Berlin’s actual experience in Vietnam, ...
832 O’Brien, Tim mind of Paul Berlin, recounting an improbable escape from war, the rest of the story is rooted in the wartime r ...
The Things They Carried 833 other realities of the war—the damp, the illness, the monotony, and the ways of surviving the every- ...
834 O’Brien, Tim who is careful to highlight the mediated, fictive nature of his writings. A key premise of the novel is that st ...
The Things They Carried 835 way, O’Brien offers an implicit commentary about the men—these particular men—who are think- ing abo ...
836 O’Brien, Tim to Bowker and then studying them from the outside. What the narrator learns, at least for himself, is that we c ...
“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” 837 redemptive power of storytelling. The story of Linda is his way of “dreaming Linda alive”; the ...
838 O’Connor, Flannery penitentiary said what I had done was kill my daddy but I known that for a lie. My daddy died in nine- te ...
“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” 839 Christian values, as the reader can see as the story follows her conversations and inner convic ...
840 O’Connor, Flannery overcomes her prejudices and reaches out to the Misfit, who shoots her in return. He has found a license ...
Wise Blood 841 tied to the material world. Mrs. Flood sees life only in terms of the physical: eating, spending, work- ing. Haze ...
842 O’Connor, Flannery receives for his services, and the three strands of barbed wire Hazel uses to mortify his flesh. Another ...
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