Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature

Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book 663 point out “the sacred ignorance” (212) of Christian Americans who want to impose their ways ...

664 Kingston, Maxine Hong are unbearable. Unlike most of his fellow Asian- American classmates, Wittman graduated from college w ...

Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book 665 “[i]mmigrants. Fresh Off the Boats out in public. Didn’t know how to walk together. Spittin ...

666 Kingston, Maxine Hong in the racial joke Wittman overhears from a table of whites at a restaurant. Because of their appearan ...

The Woman Warrior 667 kingSTon, maxinE Hong The Woman Warrior (1975) The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts is Ma ...

668 Kingston, Maxine Hong women are to be like brothers and sisters to each other. That goes against the message Kingston’s nar- ...

The Woman Warrior 669 The theme of survival in the United States as immigrants and as immigrants’ children is fore- grounded in ...

670 Kipling, Rudyard is afraid that she will be sold off as a slave or a wife as soon as her family returns to China. Nor can sh ...

Kim 671 little interest in tracing his roots—though he speaks vaguely of a “Red Bull and a Colonel,” along with “nine hundred de ...

672 Kipling, Rudyard For whatever fears England had about “going native” in India, it was undeniably part of the Brit- ish lands ...

A Separate Peace 673 unconscious. This type is less a stock colonial figure than a living embodiment of the wisdom of the Ramaya ...

674 Knowles, John whose initiation ritual involves jumping from a tree branch into a river. Early in the story, Gene begins to r ...

A Separate Peace 675 Gene has suffered and caused suffering. The hatred, jealousy, guilt, and self-denial have left him. For the ...

676 Kosinski, Jerzy boys begin the novel as very different people. Gene is immature and competitive. Finny is carefree and chari ...

The Painted Bird 677 the start of war, 12 at its end. Although he survives the war, he leaves the novel a much-changed char- act ...

678 Kosinski, Jerzy the images that others have of us. So strongly has the boy been shaped by the war that, when he is reunited ...

The Painted Bird 679 this pessimistic view of society’s relationship to the individual, the book does end on a small note of opt ...

680 Kundera, Milan says, “I recalled the trains carrying people to the gas chambers and crematories. The men who had ordered and ...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being 681 Little by little, her radical feelings change, becoming more mature and more complex. The ...

682 Kundera, Milan him: “He fell asleep by her side. When he woke up the next morning, he found Tereza who was still asleep, hol ...