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Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Study Guide

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by Tom Robbins
About 21 pages (6,376 words)
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Because of its concern with good and evil, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates lends itself well to discussions about morality. Since Switters can be viewed as parthero and part-rogue, debate about the nature of the change he undergoes in the story may ensue.

1. The principal theme of Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates is good versus evil, or in this case that good is the same thing as evil. Since the singular notions of good and evil govern the popular idea of morality, can Switters (who believes in this duality) have a moral sense? Identify specific ways this sense is shown in his behavior.

2. Critics have complained that Switters's views show "contempt for the citizens.....

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Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates 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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