Bless The Beasts And Children

The novel, Bless the Beasts and Children, by Glendon Swarthout has a theme of the progression of the Bedwetters. These are kids who are ostracized because of their lack of physical abilities. Their individualistic actions are eliminated as the novel progresses. Before the group changed to a fully functional group one could find clues of these individualistic acts such as when the Bedwetters attempt to steal the buffalo head from one of the other cabins. …

…dying, living up to what he had said earlier. This event clearly shows the Bedwetters working together in a fully functional group for the first time. Literature is a good teacher, students find out from this book that no one succeeds who does not have a clear plan and work in a unified group to achieve its goal. Glendon Swarthout must have started with this idea as his theme, it worked well for this novel.