Beautiful Creatures Allusions

Literary and Philosophical References

• Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (Before.7)
• Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (9.02[2].19), (9.12[1].42-67)
• J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye (9.02[2].20), (9.14.1)
• Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild (9.02[2].20)
• Jack Kerouac, On the Road (9.02[2].20)
• The Silver Surfer (9.12[1].40), (9.12[1].62), (9.12[2].92)
• Leo Tolstoy (9.12[2].89)
• J.D. Salinger (9.12[2].89)
• Kurt Vonnegut (9.12[2].89)
• Charles Bukowski (9.12[2].97), (9.12[2].170), (9.12[2].174), (10.09[2].5), (2.11[1].17)
• e.e. cummings (10.09[2].5)
• Robert Frost (10.09[2].5), (2.11[1].17)
• Sylvia Plath (10.09[2].5)
• T.S. Eliot (10.09[2].5), (2.11[1].10), (2.11[1].17)
• Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (10.09[3].13)
• Oedipus the King (10.13.47)
• Antigone (10.13.49)
• Sir Francis Bacon (10.13.66-68)
• Shakespeare (10.13.67)
• Homer (10.13.79)
• Euripides (10.13.80)
• Khalil Gibran (10.13.91-92)
• Benjamin Franklin (10.13.93-94)
• Ernest Hemingway (10.13.206), (10.13.208)
• William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (11.27.85)
• Ray Bradbury (12.16.163)
• Richard Wilbur (12.19.111)
• Charles Bukowski, Pleasures of the Damned (12.19.40)

Historical References

• The Civil War (throughout)
• Stonewall Jackson (9.02[2].6)
• Robert E. Lee (9.02[2].24)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (12.16.124), (12.16.126)
• Voltaire (12.16.128)
• Battle of Honey Hill (throughout 2.05)
• Colonel Colcock (2.05.97)

Pop Culture References

• Gone with the Wind (9.12[2].18)
• Elton John (10.13.207)
• The Shining (10.31.135)
• Phantom of the Opera (11.27.161)
• Gods and Generals (12.16.21)
• Little House on the Prairie (2.05.134)