Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
654 Kincaid, Jamaica natives a “commodity,” is an ugly human being to those being commodified. Poor people, people like the nati ...
A Small Place 655 and collapse that wealthy Antiguans fly to New York for medical care and poor Antiguans consider it a death se ...
656 Kingsolver, Barbara and Britain itself, while completely leaving out any history of her own ancestors, how they arrived in A ...
The Bean Trees 657 Taylor drives farther west until she reaches Ari- zona, where she is forced to stop when her car breaks down. ...
658 Kingsolver, Barbara tire shop and a shelter for illegal immigrants. Mattie becomes a mother figure for Taylor and Turtle, co ...
The Poisonwood Bible 659 she wants society to view her. As she travels west, Taylor also reacquaints herself with her Indian her ...
660 Kingsolver, Barbara catastrophes, hunger, political instability, and other upheavals. This experience will turn into a test ...
The Poisonwood Bible 661 values. She comes to see these values as entirely unethical because they are attached to her home count ...
662 Kingsolver, Barbara rejection of his teachings in an environment that requires other frames of thinking and looking at the w ...
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book 663 point out “the sacred ignorance” (212) of Christian Americans who want to impose their ways ...
664 Kingston, Maxine Hong are unbearable. Unlike most of his fellow Asian- American classmates, Wittman graduated from college w ...
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book 665 “[i]mmigrants. Fresh Off the Boats out in public. Didn’t know how to walk together. Spittin ...
666 Kingston, Maxine Hong in the racial joke Wittman overhears from a table of whites at a restaurant. Because of their appearan ...
The Woman Warrior 667 kingSTon, maxinE Hong The Woman Warrior (1975) The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts is Ma ...
668 Kingston, Maxine Hong women are to be like brothers and sisters to each other. That goes against the message Kingston’s nar- ...
The Woman Warrior 669 The theme of survival in the United States as immigrants and as immigrants’ children is fore- grounded in ...
670 Kipling, Rudyard is afraid that she will be sold off as a slave or a wife as soon as her family returns to China. Nor can sh ...
Kim 671 little interest in tracing his roots—though he speaks vaguely of a “Red Bull and a Colonel,” along with “nine hundred de ...
672 Kipling, Rudyard For whatever fears England had about “going native” in India, it was undeniably part of the Brit- ish lands ...
A Separate Peace 673 unconscious. This type is less a stock colonial figure than a living embodiment of the wisdom of the Ramaya ...
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