Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1083 plaintively in the distance—what Huck calls “the lonesomest sound in the whole world”—he rea ...
1084 Twain, Mark whom Huck is morally obligated to return to his owner. What changes is not how other people perceive Huck but, ...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1085 He can, however, be affected by genuine reli- gious sentiment, whether it comes in the form of ...
1086 Twain, Mark communIty in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The community of St. Petersburg, Missouri, wit- nesses several extrao ...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1087 Innocence and experIence in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The concepts of innocence and experie ...
1088 Twain, Mark JuStIce in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Justice has several meanings in Tom Sawyer, but its most common referen ...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 1089 Hank uses his power as “The Boss” to reorganize the government into departments ...
1090 Twain, Mark these items become supplemented by increasingly frivolous commercial products, such as gentlemen’s furnishings ...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 1091 and logical. For example, when he rallies after an ini- tial bout of despair, h ...
1092 Updike, John the sake of violence. Hank laments that the knights use the awesome strength they possess “to hack and batter ...
“A&P” 1093 aisles of the store. They attract the notice not only of Sammy but also of his coworkers and, unluckily, of the p ...
1094 Updike, John is a major development for Sammy, as he shows that he is able to see things from the perspective of oth- ers. ...
“A&P” 1095 limits that his place in the world of commerce has set for him. When Sammy resigns his position, he empha- sizes ...
1096 Updike, John so that he can leave the store without fussing with his coat and boots, thus making a clean and suave getaway. ...
Rabbit, Run 1097 comprehend. In order to avoid his nagging mother- in-law, he sneaks around the big Springer house and into the ...
1098 Updike, John these conditions by running away. Just as he runs home after the symbolic introductory ball game (maybe as a m ...
The Aeneid 1099 Beyond basketball—or more specifically, his nostalgic fixation on high school glory—Harry senses that he is trap ...
1100 Virgil It tells of adventures at sea, fabulous monsters, and of the unhappy love of Dido, the queen of Carthage, for Aeneas ...
The Aeneid 1101 When Turnus kills Pallas, a young warrior entrusted to Aeneas’s care, Aeneas, already a sec- ond Paris, becomes ...
1102 Virgil hero’s armor? Is Augustus’s Roman empire really the new golden age or just another repetition of the endless violenc ...
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