Sons From Afar - Literary References

Literary References

James has to do a report in his French class, and ends up doing a second for another student, leading to guilt about cheating.

  • Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus" (essay}

James takes a part-time job in a medical office and answers the distressed call of a man with urinary retention and thinks of an episode in a book he read. Though he realises later he should not have given medical advice, the incident starts him to think he should be a doctor.

  • John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley


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