- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
This first passage of the novel immediately establishes the theme of change and personal growth. Even from his own point of view, Luke’s birdwatching behavior is strange and seemingly out-of-character. By beginning with this seemingly minor observation, the novel introduces one of its central ideas: that people have the capacity to change, possibly for the better. This change in Luke’s habits comes up before the reader learns anything else about Luke as a character, which puts emphasis on what’s changing about him rather than on what came before.
The mention of birdwatching also subtly introduces the novel’s theme of nature…