Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
1014 steinbeck, John he should travel with them, gathering in a circle around their truck while Casy, the outsider, waits beyond ...
Of Mice and Men 1015 and sexual, were just as aroused as he was. This started Casy on a long process of spiritual question- ing, ...
1016 steinbeck, John finish the sentence by exclaiming, “And live off the fatta the lan.” George’s imagined future, repeated thr ...
Of Mice and Men 1017 with the boss, the wages, or the conditions at one ranch, they can always pick up and move on to the next. ...
1018 steinbeck, John are the loneliest guys in the world,” George tells his weak-minded traveling companion Lennie. “They got no ...
The Pearl 1019 and jealousy. Steinbeck himself describes the story as “a parable,” a moral tale which can apply universally. Liv ...
1020 steinbeck, John Stories like that of Kino and the great pearl also function as parables of applied group wisdom and enforce ...
The Pearl 1021 individual competition for resources and power. Human culture and history inscribe the material objects of Kino’s ...
1022 steinbeck, John cannot occur until the pearl has been exorcised. The story remains in the collective memory as a cautionary ...
The Red Pony 1023 Gabilan’s care, but even the expert cannot save the colt. Jody is heartbroken. The consequences of this and th ...
1024 steinbeck, John leaves them for his mother to find. He is responsible for keeping the wood box full for the kitchen, gath- ...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1025 Jody Tiflin, the young protagonist of these stories, knows very little of the w ...
1026 stevenson, Robert Louis From an early age, Jekyll finds it hard to reconcile his “impatient gaiety of disposition” with a n ...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1027 among [his] fellow-men.” However, he is secretly stifled by social conventions ...
1028 stevenson, Robert Louis Shelley’s franKenStein (1818), Stevenson’s tale warns of the potential dangers of science when it i ...
Treasure Island 1029 they devised. Even though the novel was aimed at and appealed to children—and still does—Treasure Island al ...
1030 stevenson, Robert Louis downplays his achievement by commenting that “a child” could have seen through the pirate. Fur- the ...
Treasure Island 1031 extraordinary acts of heroism that cannot be experi- enced in ordinary life. What is more, while Treasure I ...
1032 stoker, Bram “I puts it all away.” There is more than one side to Long John, and his cunning manipulation of lan- guage and ...
Dracula 1033 strosity with gender transgression, suggesting that one reason he is a monster is precisely because he breaks the g ...
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