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The Keys of the Kingdom Summary & Study Guide Description
The Keys of the Kingdom Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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The Keys of the Kingdom Social Concerns/Themes
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In The Keys of the Kingdom Cronin is concerned with two main themes, one of which is a constant concern throughout his life and work, while the other was never to appear again with such fervor. The first is Cronin's concern for children who are ill-treated or neglected. As is often the case in Cronin's novels, children also have great potential intellectually and socially.
His protagonist, Francis Chisolm, is such a child, an orphan, and when he is removed from adverse conditions in which he is being raised, the reader sees Chisolm bloom into a bright youth who is full of unprejudiced compassion, a trait which his early hardships brought to him. Such a theme recurs in Cronin's works, as, for instance, in the character of Mary in Hatter's Castle (1931; see below).
The second theme is theological.
Francis becomes a priest, but from...
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