Masters Theses

Date of Award

6-1988

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Major

English

Major Professor

Jon M. White

Committee Members

Michael Keene, Bain Stewart

Abstract

Few people have the opportunity to analyze important themes in their lives. This fantasy novel represents my attempt to inwardly research the themes of destiny and father-son love. In assimilating this information, I called on a plot I had heard from a third party, plots and characters from other works of literature, and my own intellect.

The story deals with a young boy's life from birth to age twenty-one. Preordained by the gods, this boy, Paul, is given a major role in the preparation for the coming of the ultimate God, Y'shua. Crippled from a congenital birth defect, Paul travels from his birthplace in the hills of Appalachia through the Portal to an ancient land called Lemuria. His destiny is to eliminate an evil God known as Desemee.

Accompanying Paul on this journey is his father, Michael. Paul resents Michael for his lack of attention during childhood, thus paving the way for a reconciliation of Paul and Michael in the latter chapters of the book. This minor theme represents the importance of every man's struggles to enhance the father-son relationship.

To conclude the destiny theme, everyone has his own fate. Good or bad, he must choose which course will lead him to fulfillment. Even though Paul's destiny is preordained, who is to say that everyone's fate is not.

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