Authors
This author wrote The History of Love.
Who is Nicole Krauss?
The main characters of this post-apocalyptic novel cannot be identified by their names, because they aren't given any.
What is The Road by Cormac McCarthy?
What is The Man, the Boy, The Woman, The Old Man (Ely,) and the Little Boy.
The saying "So it goes" encapsulates these theme/s in Slaughterhouse 5.
What is Freewill and Death?
"It would take another Earthling to explain it to you. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided. I am a ______, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber."
What is Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut?
This is the name of the group that Kirsten is a part of in Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, where they travel to different towns performing Shakespeare.
What is the Traveling Symphony?
This author wrote The Crying of Lot 49.
Who is Thomas Pynchon?
This character in On the Road by Jack Kerouac has had two wives, is a criminal, and sparks what seems to be a romantic relationship with Carlo Marx. The protagonist of the novel is infatuated with him.
Who is Dean Moriarty?
Sal, Dean, Carlo, Marylou, Ed, Remi, etc.
In Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver, this theme holds back scientific understanding and progression. It determines the ideologies of many of the people in Feathertown.
What is religion?
“A few letters from friends and relatives came less and less often, and it was difficult to know what was really happening. Folded inside the second-to-last letter he received from his sister—in which she told him that she’d fallen in love with another law student and gotten married—was a photograph taken when she and ___ were children. On the back she’d written: Here we are together.”
What is The History of Love by Nicole Krauss?
This is the job Remi and Sal work in San Francisco, where they steal food and drink.
What are guards at the barracks?
This author wrote On the Road.
Who is Jack Kerouac?
In the Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, this character tries to kill Milkman. She also dies of heartbreak.
Who is Hagar?
Milkman, Macon Dead, Ruth, Corinthians, Lena, Hagar, Pilate, Reba, Guitar
In the History of Love by Nicole Krauss, this theme plagues Leo, Alma, and Zvi as they navigate grief. It underscores the effects of the Holocaust that still impacts their lives.
What is loss?
“We were on the roof of American and all we could do was yell, I guess—across the night, eastward over the Plains, where somewhere an old man with white hair was probably walking toward us with the Word, and would arrive any minute and make us silent.”
What is On the Road by Jack Kerouac?
This is the name of the group Guitar is a part of in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, where he kills a white person for every black person killed.
What is the Seven Days?
This author wrote Station Eleven.
Who is Emily St. John Mandel?
In the Crying of Lot 49, this character is already dead by the time the book begins. An ex-boyfriend of Oedipa, he owns what seems to be all of San Narciso.
Who is Pierce Inverarity?
Pierce, Oedipa, Mucho, Mertzger, the Paranoids
What is storytelling/folklore?
“No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and expressions of contentment and relationship-status updates with heart icons whole or broken, plans to meet up later, pleas, complaints, desires, pictures of babies dressed as bears or peppers for Halloween. No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone in the room. No more avatars.”
What is Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel?
This is the name of the secret postal service Oedipa tries to uncover in The Crying of Lot 49.
What is Tristero/Trystero?
This author wrote The Overstory.
Who is Richard Powers?
In Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, Billy meets another soldier on the battlefield, who dies on the railway boxcar on the way to Dresden. He blames Billy for his death.
Who is Roland Weary?
Billy Pilgrim, Weary, Paul Lazzaro, Edgar Derby, Valencia, Kilgore Trout, the Tralfamadorians
In The Overstory by Richard Powers, this theme is called _____ to represent the part everyone plays in helping the trees and preventing eco-sabotage.
What is collective agency?
“The one thing I can tell you is that you won't survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together a passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope for it with all my heart.”
What is The Road by Cormac McCarthy?
This is Leo's occupation before retirement in The History of Love by Nicole Krauss.
What is a locksmith?