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Isolation
It's not easy making friends when you spend your time dissecting Anthropophagus corpses and visiting rotting sea captains in the insane asylum. Poor twelve-year-old Will Henry is utterly alone in The Monstrumologist, especially because his only housemate is an egotistical megalomaniac who is obsessed with the study of monstrumology. So it's hardly surprising that one of the major themes of this book has to do with isolation, loneliness, and the effects it has on young men.
Dr. Warthrop is emotionally distant to Will Henry because that's how his father was to him.
Dr. Warthrop is emotionally distant to Will Henry because he's so absorbed in his work he doesn't even realize Will Henry needs more from him.
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