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Blood and Honor Study Guide

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by W. E. B. Griffin
About 7 pages (1,959 words)

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Social Concerns

The issues of World War II are evident in Blood and Honor; indeed, it does not attempt to bridge time to make a 1990s point, but immerses itself in a 1940s and World War II ethos and mind set. The complex of morality issues surrounding the very existence of Nazism is evident from the beginning of the novel, with the revelation of a Nazi scheme to ransom Jews from Auschwitz and then to use that money to establish a safe haven for Nazis in Argentina after the war. The amorality of this scheme is not shown through demonizing the characters completely, as might be done elsewhere, but by presenting them as semi-corporate functionaries.

These functionaries are also responsible for the death of Cletus Frade's Argentinean father, a retired.....

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Blood and Honor from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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