Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

194 Austen, Jane her, and she becomes infatuated with John Wil- loughby after a very romantic introduction. Novels of sensibilit ...

Sense and Sensibility 195 protect oneself and one’s family from scrutiny and, perhaps, pain. As though hers were the yardstick b ...

196 Baldwin, James cated, and she believes that the marks of true love are so obvious that they cannot be hidden or bidden. If a ...

Go Tell It on the Mountain 197 to control a spouse, accepts the price and uses her knowledge of Gabriel’s own sexually sinful pa ...

198 Baldwin, James community, which is why he tells Elisha, whom he loves, to remember “whatever happens, that I was there.” Kno ...

Go Tell It on the Mountain 199 edge his son Royal humanizes him in the eyes of the reader. Gabriel’s effort to connect with Roy ...

200 Bambara, Toni Cade BAMBARA, TONI CADE The Salt Eaters (1980) Toni Cade Bambara’s novel The Salt Eaters is a story about poss ...

The Salt Eaters 201 memOr y in The Salt Eaters Toni Cade Bambara uses memory in The Salt Eaters to create a cosmic sense of time ...

202 Behn, Aphra Watching Velma, Sophie is overcome by a traumatic image of the police brutality that her son Smitty experienced ...

Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave 203 Gender in Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave As a woman who exists in a patriarchal culture that is ...

204 Behn, Aphra titular character of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is an aris- tocratic hero trapped in a capitalist plot; at the same t ...

Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave 205 cately concerned with issues of race. The tale is told by an eyewitness narrator who both coll ...

206 Bellow, Saul the nature of race: Oroonoko is a prince, and he is a prince whether African or European. Victoria E. Price BEL ...

The Adventures of Augie March 207 and so you must be flexible. You kiss the woman and you show how you love your fate, and you w ...

208 Bellow, Saul While Augie’s personal journey is steeped in the classical tradition, he remains cognizant but sus- picious of ...

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” 209 we are, and we have to make it look better.” Like Augie, Simon realizes that much of cla ...

210 Bierce, Ambrose follows Farquhar’s inner life during the split second it takes for him to drop from the bridge to his death: ...

Bierce’s story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” allows access into the soul of the protagonist, Peyton Farquhar, and shows th ...

212 Black Elk tagonist struggles in vain to evade his own death, the ultimately isolating event in the human life cycle. The plo ...

Black Elk Speaks 213 Wounded Knee in 1890. These pivotal events are told through the eyes and voice of a Lakota sha- man, while ...