The best theme for Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton is death. It proves to be a good theme for the novel because Hamilton seems to constantly be confronting death; either experiencing several close calls of his own, or facing the loss of his loved ones.
Young Hamilton experiences death very early on in his life, upon his mother’s death. At the age of twelve, he and his mother both got very sick with the flu. Unfortunately, due to their family of a single mother and two young boys being very poor, they could not afford any medical help, and Hamilton nearly died, while his mother died of a fever. Years later, at the age of seventeen, Hamilton experienced an atrocious hurricane that astonished the island he lived on. The hurricane caused several