LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Beach, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Tourism and Authenticity
Power, Control, and Human Nature
War, Violence, and Escapism
Secrecy, Fear, and Paranoia
Summary
Analysis
Richard has another dream in which Daffy Duck appears. This time, the dream is so vivid that it feels like a vision. In the dream, Richard and Daffy Duck are trying to get out of a place full of chaotic crowds, hoping to take a helicopter from the roof of an embassy.
In this dream, Richard imagines the end of the Vietnam War, which was a chaotic scene that involved people leaving in helicopters. Richard didn’t experience the war himself, and so his dream is based on media like films and old news footage.