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Victor and the creature are “doubles” (or mirrors) of each other because they are both struck with the inability to successfully communicate with society. This theme demonstrates the balance of the conscious and unconscious aspects of human behavior.

Capote became especially close to Smith, whose lonely childhood, physical self-consciousness, and artistic aspirations resonated with the writer.

At the funeral for Brother Tod Clifton, whose murder is one of several epiphanies, or moments of illumination, in the novel,

the invisible man looks out over the people present and sees "not a crowd but the set faces of individual men and women."

The doctrines of the Nation transformed the chaos of the world behind prison bars into a cosmos, an ordered reality.

Malcolm finally had an explanation for the extreme poverty and tragedies his family suffered, and for all the years he had spent hustling and pimping on the streets of Roxbury and Harlem as "Detroit Red."

With Cash, Darl believes that he shares a close affinity, as though he and Cash truly were one person. Addie's narration partially explains this curious affiliation, for she has lumped the boys together and disowned them both: