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        <title><![CDATA[Every book, poem, short story, play, song lyric, etc. has a theme. The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Every book, poem, short story, play, song lyric, etc. has a theme. The theme is simply what the book is about, and there can be more than one theme.Obviously, one of the themes of &quot;A Death in the Family&quot; is that someone in a family has died; you expect that just from reading the title. You also expect that a theme might be grief or loss or family relationships or the like. The eNotes section on themes has a good discussion on several...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Does the book &quot;A Death in the Family&quot; have a theme?]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's important to note that all stories contain conflict.  Without...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It's important to note that all stories contain conflict.  Without conflict, there is no progression to a story.  For this particular story, there are both internal and external conflicts.  Each character is dealing with the after effects of grief due to the death of father figure Jay Follet.  Coping with grief is a man vs. self, or internal, conflict.

How people interact is a man vs. man, or external, conflict.  The adults in this story do...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Are there any conflicts (internal or external) in this classic "A Death...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Are there any conflicts (internal or external) in this classic "A Death In the Family"?]]></description>
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