Mechano), several townspeople (including the taciturn Big Chris, the flamboyant Diana Steed and the amused Mr. There are also telling glimpses of a couple of outsiders (word traveler Rosalie Sims-Pibity and the mysterious, chilling Mr. In terms of classmates, Homer has encounters with the well-off Hubert, the beautiful but aloof Helen, and the amusing Joe.
Ek (the principle, more interested in doing the right thing than in being popular with either his faculty or the parents). Byfield (the manipulative athletic coach), Miss Hicks (the spinster teacher with a surprising perspective on detention) and Mr.
Covington, and a wide selection of characters at Homer's school. Ara and the less worldly, more selfish Mr. Then there are the two very different shop owners, the worldly and infinitely generous Mr. Macauley and oldest sister Bess who, with her friend Mary Arena, takes pity on a visiting trio of soldiers and joins them on a date at the movies. At home, there's the gently grieving (and profoundly wise) Mrs. Spangler and the aged, weary, fragile Mr. At the telegraph office there's the selflessly compassionate Mr. On their journeys throughout their hometown and through the next couple of days, Homer and Ulysses both encounter vividly portrayed characters who, one way or another, educate them about the ways of the world. Soon afterwards, however, his older brother Homer, on one of his earliest deliveries as a telegraph boy, passes on news of her son's death to a suddenly (and perhaps understandably) traumatized middle-aged woman. The novel begins with a simple experience of joy: on a warm, bright afternoon, Ulysses Macauley, younger brother of the novel's protagonist, enjoys experiences of animals in his back yard, a friendly man on a train, and his mother's company. Episodic and poetic, with an emphasis on creating a portrait rather than developing a plot, The Human Comedy explores themes relating to the existential, essential loneliness of human existence and the different ways human beings strive and struggle to keep that loneliness at bay. This novel, set in a small American town during World War II, is a coming of age story anchored by the experiences of Homer Macauley, a teenage telegraph messenger who discovers truths about human experience in general and about himself in particular while delivering telegrams, many of which report on the deaths of loved ones.
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