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I need help thinking of a theme please?
Okay we're supposed to summarize the first quarter of our book and then it says "Theme: in the first quarter of the novel the author is trying to say that:" and "Theme shown through setting:"
I don't know HOW to come up with a theme from my summarization but i did summarize so if you could just read through this and help me somehow, I'd really appreciate this:
Christopher John Francis Boone, an autistic 15 year old boy who lives in Swindon, Wiltshire, comes across his neighbour’s dead poodle (Wellington) with a garden fork sticking out of his body in his neighbour’s front yard. Mrs. Shears, his neighbour, comes across him holding Wellington and believes that he killed him. She calls the police and Christopher is taken to the police station after hitting a police officer (he does not like to be touched) and his dad (Ed Boone) bails him out. Ed runs a business and does heating maintenance and boiler repair. Christopher tries to solve the mystery of who killed the black poodle to clear his name. Siobhan, his teacher and friend, gives him the idea of recording his adventures in a book; therefore he is the narrator of the story. As the story progresses, Christopher shares that his mother, Judy Boone, died two years ago. He also mentions interesting things to know such as prime numbers, stars, a simile, metaphors, slander, spazzer, and Red Herring between the storyline. The reader learns that he is gifted at math, detests the colours yellow and brown, likes red, has a dream of becoming an astronaut, and relates well to animals, especially to his pet rat Toby. Despite his father’s wishes, Christopher uses logic to start off his investigation by going around his neighbourhood and asking questions (which is very hard for him to do). His efforts seem useless until he arrives at the home of Mrs. Alexander, who gives him a clue by mentioning Mr. Shears, Mrs. Shears’ ex-husband.
Thanks! You don't have to give me a direct them because that would just be unmorally cheating but it would be very nice to explain it to me or to give me a topic =]
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a possible theme could be like..... to overcome one's physical and mental limitations to acheive a goal
this could be a theme because christopher has autism and had to overcome his fears of talking to people and other fears his diease brings him to prove his innocence
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I've read this book! It was great :)
A theme you might use could be coping... Christopher uses various coping skills to deal with his autism, both ones that he came up with and ones that Siobhan helped him with. His father also copes with the mother leaving by pretending she died.
That's all I could think of for the moment. If I think of anything else, I'll tell you.
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