Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
714 Lewis, sinclair and also as a result of the gentle encouragement of her husband, Carol finally returns to Gopher Prai- rie. ...
The Call of the Wild 715 Erik’s father, unjustly accuses Carol of seductively luring Erik away from life on the farm: “Women lik ...
716 London, Jack the man tells him “you’ve learned your place, and I know mine. . . . fearlessly pat[ting]” Buck on the head. ...
The Call of the Wild 717 places him in conflict—he’s caught in the middle between his two identities. Buck well understands that ...
718 London, Jack creatures. Along with becoming sleeker and stron- ger—with feet that had grown “hard to the trail”— Buck’s dige ...
White Fang 719 of White Fang had been molded until he became what he was, morose and lonely, unloving and fero- cious, the enemy ...
720 London, Jack Bill’s sled and their dogs, tormenting them with the inevitability of being killed, one by one. It is ominous a ...
The Giver 721 call, the call of the fire and of man.” She returns to camp, leaving White Fang whimpering softly with confusion a ...
722 Lowry, Lois Family in The Giver In the futuristic world that Lois Lowry creates for her novel, The Giver, the family is a ve ...
The Giver 723 Fate in The Giver In the opening of Lois Lowry’s The Giver, the pro- tagonist Jonas is worrying about his future. ...
724 Machiavelli, Niccolò televisions, cars—is rare or absent in the wider com- munity; instead, the emphasis is on simple, com- ...
The Prince 725 was written in 1513 during a year of forced exile for its author but was not published until 1532, five years aft ...
726 Machiavelli, Niccolò argue that a subversion of values was far from the mind of this much maligned yet celebrated Flo- renti ...
The Prince 727 He also developed a deep-rooted belief in the inability of the common man to rise above his immediate interests—h ...
728 Malamud, Bernard his citizens. Such a clear delimitation of the role of a prince in a society requires that he meet his obli ...
The Natural 729 The film version has Hobbs coming through with a prodigious home run to win, but the novel has a beaten Hobbs wa ...
730 Malamud, Bernard scandalous Sox, banned from baseball and the Hall of Fame, and asked the player “Say it ain’t so, Joe.” At ...
The Natural 731 now to get three good swings, to give his best. How- ever, his best is not good enough and he goes down on strik ...
732 Marlowe, Christopher logo from Hobbs’s bat into a patch they wear on their sleeves. Baseball players can be a superstitious ...
Doctor Faustus 733 desire to share his good fortune in plans to build a protective brass wall around Germany, drive the invading ...
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