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Chapter 61
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Demon Copperhead, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Exploitation
Class, Social Hierarchy, and Stereotypes
Pain and Addiction
Toxic Masculinity
Community and Belonging
Summary
Analysis
Lyra, a librarian, helps Demon study for the GED. He and Tommy work on the comic over email. Pinkie wants them to renew their contract for another year, but they decide not to. Instead, Tommy moves to Allentown, Pennsylvania, to be with his girlfriend. Demon starts his own online comic. It doesn’t make any money for the first year, but then people start to buy subscriptions. Tommy tells Demon that he should write a graphic novel. Demon does. He calls it High Ground and puts chapters on his website once he finishes them. Before long, a publisher in New York contacts him about making those comics into a book. He wants to talk to Ms. Annie about the offer. He’s been a “sober living resident” for three and a half years, but he’s not sure if he’s ready to go back to Lee County.
Demon’s commitment to his sobriety leads to new career opportunities, including the possibility of publishing a graphic novel. Notably, those career opportunities don’t come because Demon seeks them out: they come because, at this point in his life, he can devote himself more regularly to the work he loves. When he does that work, others start to notice. The novel continues its argument, then, that neither success nor sobriety is the result of miracles. Instead, one must steadfastly devote oneself to each (work and sobriety) to achieve one’s goals.
Themes
