Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

214 Black Elk nities, Black Elk eventually realizes that the strength and survival of his community resided in the coming togeth ...

Black Elk Speaks 215 It would mean unifying a broken people and reem- powering them by resurrecting the slaughtered bison and de ...

216 Blake, William and connected. Performing other rites, such as the imported Ghost Dance or the Heyoka Ceremony, which mimicks ...

Songs of Innocence and of Experience 217 grateful for Jesus’ sacrifice for the redemption of humanity, including her baby and he ...

218 Blake, William Another aspect of the visual version of Songs is the way Blake’s nature encloses and surrounds the text in ea ...

Fahrenheit 451 219 and its innocent counterpart, the lamb. Throughout Songs, Blake emphasizes God’s divine abilities and love fo ...

220 Bradbury, Ray state in Fahrenheit 451 limits human expression and restricts the human spirit. Books and the ideas they carry ...

Fahrenheit 451 221 ideas he has always accepted. Although Montag finds no easy answers to his questions, he does develop a need ...

222 Bradbury, Ray embodies a work of literature and introduces himself not with a name but with the title of the work he or she ...

The Martian Chronicles 223 environment. Bradbury’s characters are cut off from their ecosystem and their wider system of social ...

224 Bradbury, Ray has something to do with knowledge, respect, and a deep belonging, as Spender had sensed intuitively during hi ...

Of Plymouth Plantation 225 The miracle house of technology falls apart at the seams, like the disintegrating death of a body, as ...

226 Bradford, William Protestant believers who were like-minded in what they saw as right Christian doctrine (orthodoxy) and rig ...

Of Plymouth Plantation 227 uses third-person pronouns (he, him, his, and so on) or the generic title “the Governor” says somethi ...

228 Bradford, William viewed from afar, from a distance that turns the story into material for meditation. This, perhaps, hints ...

Jane Eyre 229 These phrases help remind the pilgrims that suffer- ing is not meaningless. Instead, it is full of promise: God is ...

230 Brontë, Charlotte other victims’ deaths are not in vain: Their demises bring the school to public scrutiny. Although Mr. Bro ...

Jane Eyre 231 though Jane rejects his proposal at least three times, he refuses to take no for an answer. Partly to escape St. J ...

232 Brontë, Emily believes that it is God’s bidding that he become a missionary in India. Because of his belief in his destiny, ...

Wuthering Heights 233 was three, and two older sisters died when she was seven; she herself would die of tuberculosis by the age ...