Topic: In his short stories, Caswell often explores recurring themes. Choose one theme and discuss its use in any THREE short stories in A Dream of Stars. Brian Caswell uses many recurring themes in his book A Dream of Stars. Identity means the distinct personality of an individual. This theme is in "Five-finger discount", "And be one traveller" ... . She also tries to accept the fact that Billy is gay and he is who he is. All three stories are in some way or another linked with identity and Brian Caswell has been very clever in using this theme over and over again for each story. Other recur...

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A Cage of Butterflies, by Brian Caswell, is a scientific thriller. Dr Larsen starts an institute for kids who are geniuses, in order to study them. In the institute there is Gretel, a whiz at multi-dimensional mathematics, ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School