Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
1094 Updike, John is a major development for Sammy, as he shows that he is able to see things from the perspective of oth- ers. ...
“A&P” 1095 limits that his place in the world of commerce has set for him. When Sammy resigns his position, he empha- sizes ...
1096 Updike, John so that he can leave the store without fussing with his coat and boots, thus making a clean and suave getaway. ...
Rabbit, Run 1097 comprehend. In order to avoid his nagging mother- in-law, he sneaks around the big Springer house and into the ...
1098 Updike, John these conditions by running away. Just as he runs home after the symbolic introductory ball game (maybe as a m ...
The Aeneid 1099 Beyond basketball—or more specifically, his nostalgic fixation on high school glory—Harry senses that he is trap ...
1100 Virgil It tells of adventures at sea, fabulous monsters, and of the unhappy love of Dido, the queen of Carthage, for Aeneas ...
The Aeneid 1101 When Turnus kills Pallas, a young warrior entrusted to Aeneas’s care, Aeneas, already a sec- ond Paris, becomes ...
1102 Virgil hero’s armor? Is Augustus’s Roman empire really the new golden age or just another repetition of the endless violenc ...
Candide 1103 by his ally Evander, Aeneas becomes filled with a rage even greater, and more savage, than that of his enemy. In th ...
1104 Voltaire they help prompt Candide into leaving the utopia that is Eldorado, the only place where everything does, in effect ...
Candide 1105 geographical displacement from Europe to South America and back, Voltaire establishes that misery, injustice, and u ...
1106 Vonnegut, Kurt degraded time and again by rape, prostitution and torture. Everyone in the story is exposed to, and affected ...
Cat’s Cradle 1107 the unleashing of ice-nine on the world in the light of the philosophies of the spiritual leader Bokonon by de ...
1108 Vonnegut, Kurt his own responsibility as a recorder of history; to the responsibility of politicians and religious leaders ...
Cat’s Cradle 1109 asks ironically.” Being responsible for writing history does not mean that others will act responsibly with th ...
1110 Vonnegut, Kurt the mud that got to sit up and look around.” Link- ing humanity to the mud in this way, Bokonon, who is alle ...
Slaughterhouse-Five 1111 another American, pledges to avenge his death by killing Pilgrim. The wartime ethics of comradeship and ...
1112 Vonnegut, Kurt Weary, a fellow soldier, saves Billy’s life even when Billy himself no longer wishes to live. Yet Weary’s po ...
The Color Purple 1113 Pilgrim is a victim of two forms of violence: that which is threatened physically and that which is delive ...
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