The Sky is Everywhere Allusions & Cultural References

When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (1.7; 2.27, 2.44, 2.44; 3.8; 6.23-25, 6.36; 9.17; 18.27; 31.54-55; 32.18-22; 33.10-17, 33.43; 37.1)
Romeo and Juliet (1.17; 2.46; 16.24; 32.18)
Sartre, Nausea (2.24)
Like Water for Chocolate (3.8)
Peter Pan (3.61)
Heidi (7.5)
"Goldilocks and the Three Bears" (7.5)
Jean-Paul Sartre (7.11; 20.44)
D.H. Lawrence (7.11)
Emily Bronte (7.11; 36.1)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (6.24; 9.17)
Pride and Prejudice (9.17; 16.24; 33.44)
Candide (9.69)
A Christmas Carol (11.10)
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (20.3)
Rip Van Winkle (20.28; 30.3)
Hamlet (22.8)
Oliver Twist (22.12; 26.6)
On the Road (22.12; 26.6)
Siddhartha (22.12; 26.6)
The Collected Poems of William Blake (22.12; 26.6)
The Joy of Cooking (22.12)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (24.8)
Don Quixote (26.17)
The Odyssey (26.17)
Gulliver's Travels (26.17)
Hélène Cixous, Written on the Body (27.43)
Macbeth (32.19)
Jane Eyre (33.41)
Love in the Time of Cholera (33.44)
Black Beauty (34.6)
Great Expectations (34.10)
Medusa (38.4)

Judas (6.2)
Brutas (6.2)
Benedict Arnold (6.2)
Joseph of Cupertino (6.28; 9.82)
Saint Anthony (8.1)
Christopher Columbus (8.2, 8.23-24)
Saint Rose (27.61)
Saint Wilgefortis (28.17)

"Approaching Shark" (Jaws theme song) (2.31)
The Wizard of Oz (2.44; 19.5)
John Lennon (2.16; 6.51)
Throat Singers of Tuva (6.36; 28.18)
Mozart (9.68)
Bach, Sacred Music (9.68)
Superman (9.85; 15.22)
The Munsters (17.9)
Cavallini, "Adagio and Tarantella" (20.1)'
Charlie Parker (20.1)
Edith Piaf, "La Vie en Rose" (21.14)
Filth (24.9)
Willie Nelson (24.9)
Hank Williams (24.9)
Johnny Cash (24.9)
Chopin, Nocturne (24.12)
Star Wars (26.17)
Star Trek (26.17)
Marlboro Man (28.59)
Stravinsky (30.7)
Big Foot (33.53)