Everything you need to understand or teach Even the Wicked by Lawrence Block.
A theme that appears to be woven into the fabric of the novel is that of the value of personal relationships to family and friends. The social concerns are with an impersonal system—viaticum—that distorts the human process of dying. The other concern is with the spread of hate that another impersonal system—communications media—can use to obviate the judicial system and to poison the community. Here...