Kevin Brockmeier

The meaning of immortality is to live forever, to have eternal life. Kevin Brockmeier, the author of The Brief History of the Dead, uses the city and the many people within the city to express the theme of both mortality and immortality. The city is the afterlife of the dead and the theme uses memory to keep the people alive in the after world. The lives of the dead is irony within itself. The dead live in a city where people from the living world come after death. Immortality is present…

they have a common goal: to find someone. Next, they both deal with having little to no resources while on their journey. Finally, they deal with a majority of their journeys completely alone, which leads to internal conflict. Willy Vlautin and Kevin Brockmeier both portray the theme of dealing with adversity by having the protagonists of their novels, Lean on Pete and The Brief History of the Dead, go through similar journeys of searching for something or someone alone, with little to no…

grab the public’s attention by creating fear. On the other hand, World War II was an event that took place from September 1, 1939 until September 2, 1945 that used propaganda to gain political support and approval of others. The Ceiling by Kevin Brockmeier created an idea of how…