Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
The Confessions of St. Augustine 183 The only way he can communicate the joy he feels over his conversion is through crying, jus ...
184 Augustine, Saint God’s accomplishments in Augustine’s life and how ardently he now desires God. All of the lesser loves Augu ...
Emma 185 Augustine’s conversion becomes formal in book 9 when he, his friends, and his son are baptized in a joyous ceremony. At ...
186 Austen, Jane or welfare, Emma decides to find him a wife, deem- ing that he should fall in love with Harriet Smith, a pretty ...
Emma 187 journey to maturity and self-knowledge, rather than having come of age at last. Sally Palmer cOmmunity in Emma In Jane ...
188 Austen, Jane In an England faced with political threats from abroad and internal upheavals caused by incipient industrializa ...
Pride and Prejudice 189 Emma by calling them by familiar names, proposing social gatherings with them, and otherwise ignoring th ...
190 Austen, Jane Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia—focusing mainly on the experiences of the two eldest as they learn to cope wi ...
Pride and Prejudice 191 hand, begins the novel lacking nearly all of these qualities. His behavior at the ball where Jane and Bi ...
192 Austen, Jane whose friends and family very much abhor a con- nection with the Bennet family. On the other hand, Austen seems ...
Sense and Sensibility 193 ously considers Darcy’s accusations against Wick- ham and finds support for them within her own memory ...
194 Austen, Jane her, and she becomes infatuated with John Wil- loughby after a very romantic introduction. Novels of sensibilit ...
Sense and Sensibility 195 protect oneself and one’s family from scrutiny and, perhaps, pain. As though hers were the yardstick b ...
196 Baldwin, James cated, and she believes that the marks of true love are so obvious that they cannot be hidden or bidden. If a ...
Go Tell It on the Mountain 197 to control a spouse, accepts the price and uses her knowledge of Gabriel’s own sexually sinful pa ...
198 Baldwin, James community, which is why he tells Elisha, whom he loves, to remember “whatever happens, that I was there.” Kno ...
Go Tell It on the Mountain 199 edge his son Royal humanizes him in the eyes of the reader. Gabriel’s effort to connect with Roy ...
200 Bambara, Toni Cade BAMBARA, TONI CADE The Salt Eaters (1980) Toni Cade Bambara’s novel The Salt Eaters is a story about poss ...
The Salt Eaters 201 memOr y in The Salt Eaters Toni Cade Bambara uses memory in The Salt Eaters to create a cosmic sense of time ...
202 Behn, Aphra Watching Velma, Sophie is overcome by a traumatic image of the police brutality that her son Smitty experienced ...
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