4 uses
- Keep the theme of your letters within the scope of her understanding.2 — Persons Unknown (87% in)
- Once Mrs. Riggs, her English teacher, had returned a theme with a scribbled comment: "Good.1 — Last To See Them Alive (76% in)
- Harrison Smith, though he too appealed to the jurors' presumed Christianity, took as his main theme the evils of capital punishment: "It is a relic of human barbarism.4 — The Corner (57% in)
- Dick was rather a bookworm, too; but his interest was restricted to two themes-sex, as represented in the novels of Harold Robbins and Irving Wallace (Perry, after being lent one of these by Dick, returned it with an indignant note: "Degenerate filth for filthy degenerate minds!4 — The Corner (77% in)
There are no more uses of "theme" in In Cold Blood.
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