Fleeing responsibility, religion, social entanglements, marriage, morality, the past, himself, the beleaguered refugee lights out for new territory.
While Denethor flees responsibility and Boromir is corrupted by the ring; Frodo, Sam, Pippin and Merry all help to successfully save Middle Earth.
Rabbit, Run (1960), which is considered to be one of his best novels, concerns a former star athlete who is unable to recapture success when bound by marriage and small-town life and flees responsibility.
But You isn't fleeing responsibility– he has been hired as chief executive of Virginia-based BearingPoint, a major industry consultant with 16,000 employees.
Goldner occasionally gives us stereotypes; her male characters tend to flee from responsibility and cheat while her women soldier bravely on.
In terms of real politics in the midst of a banking crisis where politics and the institutions flee from responsibility, I'd call a notion to diminish the financial prerogatives of the German states — perhaps the most powerful interest group — a don't-go-there issue for the parties of the coalition.
"The state cannot flee its responsibilities, even less when we pay our taxes.
I am not a man to flee my responsibilities," he said.
Perhaps he was motivated by sympathy with the revolution, or by a desire to make money, or simply by an urge to flee domestic responsibilities.
Not because he is fleeing paternal responsibility, mind you, but because he wants to fulfill the basic fatherly duty of keeping his impending child safe by capturing a major threat to his well-being.
Last week, Jean-Claude Gayssot, France's (Communist) transport minister, accused Mr de Seillière of fleeing his responsibilities to AOM-Air Liberté's employees.
