SuitabookThe Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle
- Reading
- Read together if useful: pause after encounters on the quest to discuss how they shape the unicorn’s understanding, while leaving room for different reactions to its sorrows.
- Themes
- Searching for others: The unicorn leaves her home in search of others of her kind and travels with Schmendrick and Molly Grue. The search gives the journey a clear focus on isolation and the hope of finding others.
- Love and loss: The unicorn learns about the joys and sorrows of life and love during her journey. These themes are presented as part of the unicorn’s experience, but their meaning and treatment remain open.
- Threat to a kind: A creature is described as driving unicorns towards extinction, and the unicorn’s quest leads towards a monarch’s castle and her destiny. The threat raises the survival of the unicorns as a stake in the story; how it is confronted is unknown.
- Worth knowing
- A creature threatens the survival of the unicorns; the degree and depiction of peril are unclear.