101 common book themes, which ones have you touched upon?

[vrabinec]

Here's a list of 101 common themes. What are some of the ones you've touched upon?

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•Beauty of simplicity
•Capitalism – effect on the individual
•Change of power - necessity
•Change versus tradition
•Chaos and order
•Character – destruction, building up
•Circle of life
•Coming of age
•Communication – verbal and nonverbal
•Companionship as salvation
•Convention and rebellion
•Dangers of ignorance
•Darkness and light
•Death – inevitable or tragedy
•Desire to escape
•Destruction of beauty
•Disillusionment and dreams
•Displacement
•Empowerment
•Emptiness of attaining false dream
•Everlasting love
•Evils of racism
•Facing darkness
•Facing reality
•Fading beauty
•Faith versus doubt
•Family – blessing or curse
•Fate and free will
•Fear of failure
•Female roles
•Fulfillment
•Good versus bad
•Greed as downfall
•Growing up – pain or pleasure
•Hazards of passing judgment
•Heartbreak of betrayal
•Heroism – real and perceived
•Hierarchy in nature
•Identity crisis
•Illusion of power
•Immortality
•Individual versus society
•Inner versus outer strength
•Injustice
•Isolation
•Isolationism - hazards
•Knowledge versus ignorance
•Loneliness as destructive force
•Losing hope
•Loss of innocence
•Lost honor
•Lost love
•Love and sacrifice
•Man against nature
•Manipulation
•Materialism as downfall
•Motherhood
•Names – power and significance
•Nationalism – complications
•Nature as beauty
•Necessity of work
•Oppression of women
•Optimism – power or folly
•Overcoming – fear, weakness, vice
•Patriotism – positive side or complications
•Power and corruption
•Power of silence
•Power of tradition
•Power of wealth
•Power of words
•Pride and downfall
•Progress – real or illusion
•Quest for discovery
•Quest for power
•Rebirth
•Reunion
•Role of men
•Role of Religion – virtue or hypocrisy
•Role of women
•Self – inner and outer
•Self-awareness
•Self-preservation
•Self-reliance
•Social mobility
•Technology in society – good or bad
•Temporary nature of physical beauty
•Temptation and destruction
•Totalitarianism
•Vanity as downfall
•Vulnerability of the meek
•Vulnerability of the strong
•War – glory, necessity, pain, tragedy
•Will to survive
•Wisdom of experience

[Becca Mills]

Wow, that's quite a list!

I think I've touched on a number of them. I guess the biggies would be: Companionship as salvation, Dangers of ignorance, Displacement, Facing reality, Immortality, Injustice, Loneliness as destructive force, Loss of innocence, Power and corruption, Wisdom of experience.

[Pru Freda]

As Becca says, quite a list.

I've probably touched on too few and more, probably, in my children's fantasy adventures than in my mysteries.

Coincidentally, I've been searching for just the right term all day, and it's on that list. Thanks, Fred.

[whdean]

As I skimmed the list, a funny thing occurred to me. There's a cliched scene or platitutde uttered by a character that goes with each of those items. So I'm betting you could write an interesting and unpredictable book just by systematically picking the opposite of the expected side of each of these themes. For example, instead of picking change in "change over tradition," pick tradition.

[vrabinec]

Apr 29, 2014 11:36:28 GMT -5 whdean said:

As I skimmed the list, a funny thing occurred to me. There's a cliched scene or platitutde uttered by a character that goes with each of those items. So I'm betting you could write an interesting and unpredictable book just by systematically picking the opposite of the expected side of each of these themes. For example, instead of picking change in "change over tradition," pick tradition.

Maybe Sterling could write "The Joys of Racism"

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My current book touches on a lot of those. Too many to mention!

[vrabinec]

I just counted, and I think mine touches at least in some way on 79 of those. Obviously, some more than others.

[Deleted]

I'm missing a few of the obvious ones:

• Remorse & redemption
  
• Loneliness at the top
  
• Cannibalism & Haute Cuisine
• The burden of power
• Falling from grace
• Llamas eating baby flesh
• Grace under fire
• Rags to riches
• Against all odds