More Than Human Themes

It's a basic question of all philosophy, literature, and life: What should a person do and why? Contribute to society, serve a deity, maybe sit around all day playing video games? More Than Human t...

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual, but More Than Human is sort of an instruction manual for how to deal with troubling memories. In the novel, emotional or intellectual memories are powe...

Lonely, I'm mister lonely, I've got nobody for my own. Just knowing that a lead character's name is Lone should tell us that More Than Human has definitely got a theme of loneliness and isolation g...

Can't we all just get along? More Than Human seems to say so. The novel positions friendship as the opposite of loneliness and isolation—a cure-all to these very human ailments. Sturgeon defines...

Young people today are arguably more familiar with notions of identity than previous generations, what with all our Facebook accounts, Twitter handles, and the good old-fashioned names that go on o...

Who needs a hug? In More Than Human, both exercising and receiving compassion and forgiveness are means by which characters evolve. It's nice of Sturgeon to specify a method of evolution since this...

There's innocence in More Than Human, but of what? It's usually connected to seeing the world differently. Characters throughout this novel have especially strange perspectives on the world, and th...

More Than Human was published a year before the Supreme Court ordered the desegregation of schools in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. In other words, public schools were still segreg...