Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Night Watchman, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Power, Solidarity, and Community Action
Oppression and Supposed Good Intentions
Humor and Pain
Sex, Violence, and Gender
Agency and Exploitation
Summary
Analysis
Thomas and other members of the advisory committee are in a car, driving to Fargo for a meeting to make their opposition to the Termination Bill known. They joke with one another along the way. In Fargo, Thomas stays with Moses’s cousin Nancy and her husband, George.
Though they’re on the way to a meeting about a bill that could terminate their tribe, the members of the advisory committee still joke along the way, showing again how humor is used as a tool to cope with challenges.
Themes
