Human Comedy, Mama I Love You

In the books, Human Comedy, Mama I Love You, and One Day in the Afternoon of the World William Saroyan uses the family theme. Saroyan makes the family the background in his books. He shows how the family has its good and bad times together, how it separates after arguments and how it comes back together to work out its problems. Another theme is the leaving of a family member through death or through abandonment. …

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