Animals
Jeremiah de Saint-Amour's dog, who dies loyally alongside her master, is but the first of many animals that we come across in this novel. Other than the birds (we discuss those in a separate categ...
Birds
Are we the only ones who feel a bit nervous about birds after reading this book? After all, here they pretty much always seem to appear when someone is about to die. There's the parrot in Chapter...
Cholera
When "cholera" is in the title of the novel, you figure it's got to be pretty important. As it turns out, it is. Cholera breaks out all over the place in this novel. It's a periodic threat, a ca...