Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
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815 ` Nabokov, vLaDimir Lolita (1955) Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov’s 12th novel (his third in English) is regarded by many as his ma ...
816 Nabokov, Vladimir Before he meets Lolita, Humbert claims that “he had the utmost respect for ordinary children, with their p ...
Lolita 817 When he sees Lolita for the last time, he finds that this has come to pass: Her looks are “ruined,” and she has lost ...
818 Naipaul, V. s. him unable to have normal sexual relations with adult women; any pleasure he gets depends on how closely they ...
A Bend in the River 819 near-anarchy. The narrative focuses on the personal experiences of Salim, the narrator, an Indian Muslim ...
820 Naipaul, V. s. we believed that change was coming to our part of Africa, we couldn’t have done our business.” This argues a ...
A Bend in the River 821 becomes for him the symbol and the space for his hope of a secure and prosperous future: I began to get ...
822 Naipaul, V. s. seek to override not only colonial boundaries but time-honored cultural traditions as well. For Salim, as for ...
A House for Mr. Biswas 823 In the Domain Africans—the young men at the polytechnic—were romantics.” Salim realizes how the spiri ...
824 Naipaul, V. s. IndIvIduaL and SocIety in A House for Mr. Biswas It might be too much to call Mr. Biswas, the hero of V. S. N ...
A House for Mr. Biswas 825 to read Marcus Aurelius; write short stories; and, in general, act in ways totally unbecoming a Tulsi ...
826 Naipaul, V. s. even attempting to lay claim to one’s portion of the earth.” Here he enjoys a measure of success over fate an ...
The Women of Brewster Place 827 a correspondence course that instructs him to write pieces on “Guy Fawkes Night, Some Village Su ...
828 Naylor, Gloria her life to pay for” and is forced to move to Brewster Place. The other characters’ versions of pursuing the ...
The Women of Brewster Place 829 when tempers flare. Mattie’s matriarchal position in Brewster Place is important, particularly g ...
830 O’Brien, Tim the preacher who plays “the game” better than she; Eugene, who deserts Ciel after the death of their child; and ...
Going after Cacciato 831 “realities.” While the novel seems to begin at the level of Paul Berlin’s actual experience in Vietnam, ...
832 O’Brien, Tim mind of Paul Berlin, recounting an improbable escape from war, the rest of the story is rooted in the wartime r ...
The Things They Carried 833 other realities of the war—the damp, the illness, the monotony, and the ways of surviving the every- ...
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