Rites of Passage Sea Trilogy | Social Concerns/Themes
The Rites of Passage sea trilogy comprises the novels Rites of Passage, Close Quarters, and Fire Down Below. One reviewer concluded that the binding theme of the three novels is the "making of Talbot's soul." In the first, he is shaken out of his comfortable self-satisfaction by Colley's death. In the second, he faces grave danger, admitting fear but not succumbing to the despair of Wheeler, who commits suicide, or the blubbering drunkenness of Pike. He slowly becomes an admirable character, establishing himself in the third novel as a good friend, a young man...
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