Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

Catch-22 543 this source of solace and also explores its limits. Not only do combat soldiers question their own faith, but they ...

544 Heller, Joseph break many psychologically. It is common to all the- aters of war in all times, from the jungles of Vietnam, ...

A Farewell to Arms 545 stomach, and bits of the stewed tomatoes Snowden had eaten that day for lunch. Snowden dies in Yossarian’ ...

546 Hemingway, Ernest sure, he chose the side that opposed military expan- sion, but it all seems a grand adventure. Catherine B ...

A Farewell to Arms 547 of the novel, however, there is an insistent insecurity about the promise of new life. Once labor begins, ...

548 Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway casts survival in two basic frames: “life and death” and “day-to-day.” The story begins in a rel ...

The Old Man and the Sea 549 that seems to keep Santiago alive throughout the novel, even when he is alone in his skiff. The old ...

550 Hemingway, Ernest lagers do worry about the old man. They sent the coast guard to search for him, and Manolin must tell the ...

The Old Man and the Sea 551 and mutilation. As the townspeople examine and measure the fish’s skeleton on the beach, they are al ...

552 Hemingway, Ernest HEmingWay, ErnEST The Sun Also Rises (1926) Ernest Hemingway’s first great novel, The Sun Also Rises, was ...

The Sun Also Rises 553 that he is “pretty religious,” but that hardly seems sincere given his own difficulties with church and p ...

554 Hemingway, Ernest unhappiness, and Cohn’s violence. Brett knows that Cohn’s problem is that “he can’t believe it didn’t mean ...

Hiroshima 555 Robert Cohn is a man who lacks that passion. In fact, the other men compare him to a steer, which is a young, cast ...

556 Hersey, John a case in point. Widowed by the war, she is sole care- taker for her three children. She has few marketable ski ...

Hiroshima 557 shares this faith with Miss Sasaki, whose long stay at the Red Cross Hospital depresses her. Kleinsorge’s words gi ...

558 Hesse, Hermann a man whose face was all raw from a burn.” After a while, these people start to smell, but Sasaki—whose leg b ...

Siddhartha 559 forehead, Govinda is able to find the oneness and peace that Siddhartha has already achieved, within himself and ...

560 Hesse, Hermann love in Siddhartha Siddhartha experiences and learns to recognize the value and necessity of love from three ...

Steppenwolf 561 life for himself, instead of following someone else’s experiences and teachings, in order to develop and define ...

562 Hesse, Hermann and most controversial work, grew out of a personal and artistic crisis. Just before Hesse started compos- in ...