Analyzing Themes

Analysing Themes: 

Why did the author write this book, what important messages or ideas did he try to convey? (Make a list of your thoughts)

1. It is to make people realize that in life you don’t only experience happiness but also sufferings and trials. 
2. Life is full of a mess but there will be always for you to experience joy. You need to stay strong whatever tribulations will come into your life, fight until you gain your freedom. 
3. Being a coward is not a choice, it’s nonsense. 
4. There will be always a reason for you start a new life again.
5. Despite the fact that a something is labeled as bad, there will be a good and wonderful side of it.
6. There will be a payment for all the happiness you get.
7. Everyone has their own, story to tell but it is just they need to tell the world.

How does the author achieve conveying these messages? Narrow your list to 4 important themes. Use quotes from the novel, including page numbers, to support your argument.

1. “The biggest risk is to take no risks”(Chapter 9) this quote shows how he conveyed the message that bravery and courage are vital in this time of their life and the choice of being coward was never a good idea.
2. “In the midst of death we are in life”(Chapter 10)This could be the message that life is full of a mess but there will be always for you to experience joy. You need to stay strong whatever tribulations will come into your life, fight until you gain your freedom. 
3. “Why did people call it Hell? I wondered. All those cliffs and rocks, and that vegetation, it did look wild. But wild wasn't Hell. Wild was fascinating, difficult, wonderful.” (Chapter 4).The quote is the best meaning of the conveyed message that despite the fact that a something is labeled as bad, there will be a good and wonderful side of it.
4. “People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly anymore. Every time they looked at them or thought about them the first thing they saw was a huge big sign saying 'Housing Commission' or 'private school' or 'church' or 'mosque' or 'synagogue'. They stopped looking once they saw those signs.”(Chapter 4) and “It’s terribly, terribly important recording what we’ve done, in words, on paper, it’s got to be our way of telling ourselves that we mean something, that we matter. That the things we’ve done have made a difference. I don’t know how big a difference, but a difference. Writing it down means we might be remembered. And by God that matters to us. None of us wants to end up as a pile of dead white bones, unnoticed, unknown, and worst of all, with no one knowing or appreciating the risks we’ve run.” (Chapter 1) These two quotes represent the message that there are some stories that need to be out in this world.

There are so many quotes that can support my analyzation and most of it you can read in the book.