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This audio study guide for Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s symbols, motifs, and themes, such as the nature-human continuum and the dichotomy between White and indigenous life....

Told through the frame of a cross-country motorcycle journey, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance explores its characters' search for spiritual meaning and peace in a technological, automated age....

This audio study guide for A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the nature of God, love, and loss....

This audio study guide for Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as over-consumption and the intersection of science and spirituality....

This audio study guide for Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as the importance of proverbs and fathers and sons....

This audio study guide for Women Who Run with Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as reclaiming one's true nature and cycles of life and mind....

This audio study guide for Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and in-depth exploration of the book’s symbols, motifs, and themes such as oppression, class struggle, and the dialectical interpretation of history....

This audio study guide for Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as free will versus obedience, identity, consciousness, and the self....

This audio study guide for The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the hollowing out of the American Dream....

This audio study guide for Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as lacking meaning in one’s life, faith, and human decency....

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for The Forest People by Colin N. Turnbull includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter....

This audio study guide for Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the danger and risk of supernatural powers, indigenous identity and culture, and more....

This audio study guide for Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as civilization as an exchange between host bodies and parasites....

This audio study guide for Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the advantages of difference, the power of words, and more....

This audio study guide for 1984 by George Orwell includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the oppressive nature of constant surveillance, totalitarian power, and more....

This audio study guide for Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow by Faëza Guène includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as the restrictive nature of gender roles and negotiating cultural boundaries....

This audio study guide for Lord of the Flies by William Golding includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the human beast and survival of the fittest....

This audio study guide for The Dutch House by Ann Patchett includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as wealth and happiness and the power of the stories we tell ourselves....

This audio study guide for Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the invisibility of power....

This audio study guide for Night by Elie Wiesel includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as religion and the loss of faith, dehumanization, loyalty, and more....