Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
1074 Toomer, Jean However, at the moment when he issues the chal- lenge, Pierre’s uncertainty about his wife and his marriage is ...
Cane 1075 majority of African Americans experience in the South. However, the majority of the black people situated in Ralph’s s ...
1076 Toomer, Jean The second section of the book, set in the urban North, shows blackness as a vital force in a spiritu- ally de ...
Fathers and Sons 1077 “Becky” and “Blood Burning Moon” explore miscegenation. Becky is a white woman who gives birth to two blac ...
1078 Turgenev, Ivan about themselves, and their philosophies undergo dramatic changes. Through these characters and their dualit ...
Fathers and Sons 1079 After Bazarov falls terminally ill with typhus, she responds immediately to his wish to see her one last t ...
1080 Turgenev, Ivan When Bazarov returns home, his parents are delighted and do their best to support him in his scientific rese ...
Fathers and Sons 1081 just completing their time at the University of St. Petersburg. Arkady brings Bazarov home to Mary- ino fo ...
1082 Twain, Mark nihilist view that life is insignificant and that noth- ing endures after death, Bazarov has been unable to rec ...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1083 plaintively in the distance—what Huck calls “the lonesomest sound in the whole world”—he rea ...
1084 Twain, Mark whom Huck is morally obligated to return to his owner. What changes is not how other people perceive Huck but, ...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1085 He can, however, be affected by genuine reli- gious sentiment, whether it comes in the form of ...
1086 Twain, Mark communIty in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The community of St. Petersburg, Missouri, wit- nesses several extrao ...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1087 Innocence and experIence in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The concepts of innocence and experie ...
1088 Twain, Mark JuStIce in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Justice has several meanings in Tom Sawyer, but its most common referen ...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 1089 Hank uses his power as “The Boss” to reorganize the government into departments ...
1090 Twain, Mark these items become supplemented by increasingly frivolous commercial products, such as gentlemen’s furnishings ...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 1091 and logical. For example, when he rallies after an ini- tial bout of despair, h ...
1092 Updike, John the sake of violence. Hank laments that the knights use the awesome strength they possess “to hack and batter ...
“A&P” 1093 aisles of the store. They attract the notice not only of Sammy but also of his coworkers and, unluckily, of the p ...
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