Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

254 Capote, Truman inclined to rebel and more willing to subordinate themselves to the upper class. Acts of reward by the upper ...

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences 255 Perry’s fantasies meet reality when he catches a lar ...

256 Capote, Truman received severe beatings for wetting the bed. As an adult, he still wets the bed, sucks his thumb, and fantas ...

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 257 this equation, as Capote states, execution is a “ritual of vengeance.” Executions uphold a ...

258 Carroll, Lewis girl named Alice as she ventures into Wonderland, a realm where madness and rudeness—an ironic exaggeration o ...

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 259 Justice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Although Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in ...

260 Carroll, Lewis staGes OF liFe in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Although a Victorian-era fantasy, Lewis Carroll’s children ...

“Cathedral” 261 With her newfound knowledge, Alice does figure out how to get into the garden, but it is not the paradise that i ...

262 Carver, Raymond the end of the summer she... married her child- hood etc.” Similarly, the narrator reduces his wife’s friend ...

on a quest that will bestow a greater sense of com- munity on all of the characters in “Cathedral.” Raymond Carver expresses per ...

264 Carver, Raymond some relief from their otherwise stultifying and stale lives. Carver himself, whose fiction was viewed as th ...

My Ántonia 265 of helping Robert “see” what a cathedral is, the nar- rator opens himself up to a different view of human- ity an ...

266 Cather, Willa very much affected by the way she treats him. For example, he is hurt when she regards him as a young boy (he ...

My Ántonia 267 Indeed, Jim seems to find peace, happiness, and freedom by identifying with nature and feeling as if he is one wi ...

268 Cather, Willa describes the country girls as lively and engaging, having “a positive carriage and freedom of move- ment,” wh ...

O Pioneers! 269 two older brothers, Lou and Oscar, to take over the family’s ailing Nebraska farm upon his death. Alexandra’s st ...

270 Cather, Willa Alexandra, Cather’s central character, is allotted the responsibility early in life of maintaining the family ...

The Canterbury Tales 271 his best efforts, coupled with the physical exertion involved in working what he has come to view as ho ...

272 Chaucer, Geoffrey contest. This framing device allows Chaucer (ca. 1342–1400) to bring together storytellers from all walks ...

The Canterbury Tales 273 exhibit “mannish” treachery (2.781–782), it is more often men who exhibit traits that are considered fe ...