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Lewis’s novels are concerned with the intricacies of family relationships and the isolation of the individual within the family. In his novels, he discusses the importance of family relationship, and for Lewis, families clearly provide not only his major sources for learning about the world as a child, but also a fertile ground for studying how people adapt themselves and endure the pain of loss and disappointment of life, and also how they adjust living with these and yet continue to live and love. All the major conflicts and central themes of his novels evolve from this concern for the family, the individual isolation, and relationship to the community. Also, Lewis’s early isolation and struggle for identity provide both style and material for his fiction.