Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

Steppenwolf 563 madman, implies displacement and derangement, stressing yet again the Steppenwolf ’s outsider posi- tion. Haller ...

564 Hesse, Hermann his middle-class inhibitions and prejudices is the fact that his uptight view of bisexuality and homo- sexual ...

The Outsiders 565 Harry finds the naked figures of Hermine and Pablo asleep after a bout of lovemaking. He notices a bruise bene ...

566 Hinton, s. E. us.  .  . . Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? So that you couldn’t want anything else and then ...

The Outsiders 567 The girls themselves show their consciousness of Dally’s cruelty: “The girls got mad. ‘You’d better leave us a ...

568 Homer girlfriend of the dead boy, no one would ever expect her to do anything to help the people who killed him. Yet she doe ...

The Iliad 569 but even more for an end to the war. Instead, the goddess Aphrodite rescues Paris before Menelaus can kill him. Th ...

570 Homer spear strikes Archelochus instead, “for the gods had doomed that fighting man to death” (384). While The Iliad sometim ...

The Odyssey 571 non also expects to be recognized as the best of men (this longing for recognition is the source of their disput ...

572 Homer Ultimately, Odysseus reaches home, unites with his family, and slays the suitors who have plagued his household. Throu ...

The Odyssey 573 cians welcome Odysseus and provide him with the means to return home, while the Cyclops violates all the customs ...

574 Homer of heroism while still displaying the glory of those who embrace it. The Odyssey proves that heroism is not only a mat ...

Farewell to Manzanar 575 other, particularly the secret of their marital bed (459). His knowledge of it proves his true identity ...

576 Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki of all their possessions and the stress of internment lead to the further deterioration of the fam ...

Farewell to Manzanar 577 Clearance, which contains two questions that are meant to determine the internee’s national loyalty. Qu ...

578 Hughes, Langston she experiences her most profound moment of independence when she witnesses her parents grow closer after t ...

poems 579 Arguably, Hughes’s most biting criticism of the limitations of the American dream is conveyed through “Let America Be ...

580 Hughes, Langston racial prejudice and their systematic exclusion from the American dream. In “Negro Speaks of Rivers” (1920) ...

poems 581 to their affluent neighborhoods, “solutions to the problem, of course, [have to] wait” (22–23). To those who are alrea ...

582 Hurston, Zora Neale Hughes succeeds in redeeming African Americans as heroes who, even in the face of death, refuse to subor ...