Hopscotch | Themes
Hopscotch is a novel with an appreciable and central theme: Horacio Oliveira's quest to experience a wholeness founded on truth. His goal is to touch truth directly without the aid of intellectual concepts or philosophical language. Hopscotch is a child's activity in which the player attempts to reach the final goal (heaven) by successfully kicking an object from one square to the next. Cortazar transforms this simple children's game into a literary one. The point of Cortazar's game is that no amount of intellectual theorizing will ever lead to true peace. One must act.
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