Annie John Themes

Okay, so while it's not exactly Mommy Dearest, Annie John has some serious mama issues. Annie John is in an all-consuming relationship with her mother, and that relationship is not a walk in the pa...

When Annie John begins, Annie is ten years old and the apple of her mother's eye. All is well with the world. Then, terror strikes. Okay not terror… but Annie begins to grow breast buds, grow tal...

It's not just mamas and daughters in Annie John. This novel deals with more issues of femininity—and more women—in one chapter than most books cover in their entirety.Annie's changing body. Ann...

Annie John gives Winona Ryder's character from Beetlejuice a run for her money when it comes to being uber-morbid. Death becomes an obsession for ten-year-old Annie after she notices a cemeter...

Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping into the future in Annie John. Shucks, it's a coming-of-age novel: you don't get much more time-sensitive than that. Young Annie marks time through her bi...

Yeah, Annie John has the kind of insatiable curiosity that is the leading cause of death among cats aged zero to twenty. Driven by the burning question why?!? Annie wants to know how the world work...

If Annie John was set in the 1970s, we just know Annie'd be singing along to the Sex Pistol's "God Save The Queen."But critics place the events of the novel somewhere in the 1950s, long before Anti...

The spirit of a dead person showing up again under a tree. Porcelain inexplicably breaking. A scratch on the arch of Annie's foot turning into a large sore and taking too long to heal. Shiver. Thes...