Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
674 Knowles, John whose initiation ritual involves jumping from a tree branch into a river. Early in the story, Gene begins to r ...
A Separate Peace 675 Gene has suffered and caused suffering. The hatred, jealousy, guilt, and self-denial have left him. For the ...
676 Kosinski, Jerzy boys begin the novel as very different people. Gene is immature and competitive. Finny is carefree and chari ...
The Painted Bird 677 the start of war, 12 at its end. Although he survives the war, he leaves the novel a much-changed char- act ...
678 Kosinski, Jerzy the images that others have of us. So strongly has the boy been shaped by the war that, when he is reunited ...
The Painted Bird 679 this pessimistic view of society’s relationship to the individual, the book does end on a small note of opt ...
680 Kundera, Milan says, “I recalled the trains carrying people to the gas chambers and crematories. The men who had ordered and ...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being 681 Little by little, her radical feelings change, becoming more mature and more complex. The ...
682 Kundera, Milan him: “He fell asleep by her side. When he woke up the next morning, he found Tereza who was still asleep, hol ...
The Buddha of Suburbia 683 that she reads his secret lovers’ letters. When Tomas accuses her—“So you’ve been rummaging in my let ...
684 Kureishi, Hanif parenthood in The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi’s novel, set in suburban England of the 1970s, becomes a ...
The Buddha of Suburbia 685 Changez turns out to be a gross, balding, congeni- tally lazy man with only one good arm. Symboli- ca ...
686 Kureishi, Hanif her energy to finding as many ways as possible to reject and subvert parental authority and eventually get h ...
The Buddha of Suburbia 687 with Jamila or “Jammie,” the daughter of his father’s old childhood friend Anwar and Anwar’s Pakistan ...
688 Kushner, Tony adviser. Now their targets are not the middle- aged suburbanites of Beckenham, but the much more influential a ...
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes 689 to and try to live in New York City. And as stated before, Roy Cohn is ...
690 Kushner, Tony second play, begins he is anointed a prophet, one who is to “lead” America to stasis. This angel is not a mess ...
The Rainbow 691 intention to stick with him no matter what. Belize is better equipped than Louis to deal with Prior’s deteriorat ...
692 Lawrence, D. H. Inger and Anton Skrebensky. The novel is devoted mostly to Ursula, whose story continues in Law- rence’s Wom ...
The Rainbow 693 old world. The industrialism imagery thus serves as a contrast to the rainbow imagery. The old world to be swept ...
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