How I Live Now Themes

You could argue that family is pretty much the biggest theme in How I Live Now, since the whole book is pretty much about one extended family unit. From Daisy's evil stepmother and her gestating de...

When How I Live Now begins, war means to Daisy the same thing it means to many of us in America—it's something far away and vague, involving unknown people and unimaginable damage, fought for onl...

According to Daisy in How I Live Now, New York and the English countryside are like night and day; they couldn't be more different if they tried. Upon Daisy's arrival, she's stunned by the rustic,...

The "Other" in How I Live Now is the unnamed Enemy that occupies England and sets the events of the novel in motion. Fleeing from the Enemy leads Daisy and her cousins into a variety of dangerous s...

For Daisy in How I Live Now, suffering mainly takes the form of starvation. For as long as she can remember, she's been forcing herself to limit her food intake as a form of rebellion. This sufferi...

In the beginning of How I Live Now, Daisy calls the bustling streets of New York City home. It's a crutch to her, being from the Big Apple and proudly sporting a been-there, done-that, totally-over...

When Daisy first arrives in England in How I Live Now, she's astounded by the innocence of her cousins in their countryside house, especially Piper. For a while, she gets to enjoy being a part of t...

Lust, thy name is Edmond. We think it's pretty clear that in a book about a girl getting it on with her cousin, it's pretty hard for lust not to be a theme. Although things get pretty smoking prett...