The five general themes of difficulties that emerged from the analysis of annotations is discussed in more detail below.
It was, so to speak, a mandatory beach book, not for credit in any course, but meant to be the basis for a campus-wide discussion on the theme of "difficulty".
From the previous 42 focus interviews, items were developed around the domain themes of symptoms, difficulties with eating food, treatment adherence, worry about symptoms and illness, feelings of being different than family and peers, and problems discussing EoE with others.
In interviews with four junior doctors, of 1 year less experience than those in this work, similar themes emerged of difficulties with encapsulating exactly what the two terms meant.
Based on these notes, the interviewer identified key themes representing sources of difficulty or confusion after each interview.
One of the serious, and most disturbing, themes of "Bonk" is the difficulty of conducting sex research in an era of corporatized and politicized medical science.
"The feelings of solitude and profound nostalgia, the themes of incommunicability and the difficulty of relations between couples, are not limited to a single milieu," he said.
Despite these study limitations, recurrent themes arose in the workshops relating to broad areas of difficulty, with no new themes on the issue emerging by the last workshop.
Given the book's fluid and changeable approach to plot and characters, a definitive, critically agreed-upon plot synopsis remains elusive (see Critical response and themes: Difficulties of plot summary below).
One of the themes of Ruby Sparks is the difficulty of producing a follow-up to an award-winning hit, so you can see why the screenplay might have chimed with Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the directors of Little Miss Sunshine.
