Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistf ight in Heaven 143 and (sadly) laughing Indians, and she wants to hear a different kind of story ...
144 Allende, Isabel Alexie deals with the misplaced assumptions of a positive tradition transparently in “A Drug Called Traditio ...
The House of the Spirits 145 Revenge parallels love. Trueba’s first illegitimate son, Esteban García, is directly responsible fo ...
146 Allende, Isabel military, a reality symbolized by the passing of the Poet, whose death represents the fall of freedom. In th ...
The House of the Spirits 147 help him and Blanca flee into exile, away from the fight for human rights. Alba is the only charact ...
148 Alvarez, Julia pregnant with the offspring of such an unworthy suitor. Blanca’s husband, the count, oppresses the servants i ...
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 149 dream seems to have worked against the four García “girls,” rather than helped them. ...
150 Amis, Kingsley trained to be (a good Catholic girl who is deferential to her husband). Even as an adult, Yolanda continues t ...
Lucky Jim 151 larly in its use of satire to critique and ridicule higher education. Equally, it is credited with instigating the ...
152 Amis, Kingsley The novel’s climax, Dixon’s drunken lecture on “Merrie England,” encapsulates the contrast between the charac ...
Lucky Jim 153 actually fishing or even discussing fishing. Just as he has a romanticized view of “Merrie Old England,” he has a ...
154 Anaya, Rudolfo answers that he is a painter, but he is quick to qualify his answer by distancing his painting from any sense ...
Bless Me, Ultima 155 of-age theme works on several levels. Through the six-year-old protagonist, Antonio, Anaya affirms a new Ch ...
156 Anaya, Rudolfo extended family are the focus of Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima. The parents of the six-year-old protagonis ...
Winesburg, Ohio 157 offered a renewed sense of pride in la raza (the race) and its most intrinsic unit, la familia. Elizabeth Mc ...
158 Anderson, Sherwood dominated by one idea become grotesque, even if that one idea is true. The stories, each focusing on a pa ...
Winesburg, Ohio 159 particular, are led by society to believe that they can find what they long for by becoming involved with a ...
160 Maya Angelou there is a secret something that is striving to grow. It is the thing I let be killed in myself.” On rare occas ...
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 161 her children,” she explains. When, one year, the sib- lings suddenly receive Christmas prese ...
162 Maya Angelou mother, but before the novel ends, the siblings have moved back and forth a couple of times. The instability of ...
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