Accident Has Changed Nyle Sumner's Life In Phoenix Rising By Karen Hesse

The novel Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse,a nuclear accident has occurred and changed Nyle Sumner's life. Various themes can be used to represent the book. Acceptance is one of the themes that shown up during the novel. Nyle doesn’t want to do anything with Ezra. Accepting the accident that happened, she took in the fact that the radiation took innocent lives, but Muncie will be there for her because of friendship.
Friendship is a big factor in our lives. Feeling accepted for who you are and having a companion is a desire everyone urges to have. “I liked Muncie. Nobody else ever bothered getting to know her. They just looked at her big head, short arms, and legs, and thought they knew everything about her.” People judge based on looks, social

We all have to do things we don’t want to do, just like Nyle. In Ezra’s letter, he addresses how he knew Nyle didn’t want him there. Even though she never told him, Nyle says a lot without talking. She was the one who guided him back to health. Even though he was a stranger. This shows how Nyle accepted Ezra gradually as she took care of him, though at first she didn’t want to do anything with him. “Ezra would be alive come spring. He had to be.” Although Ezra got his strength back slowly, Nyle tells herself that he will make it and he will still be alive until Spring comes. “It’s too late for Ezra, I said. But it’s not too late for the rest of us.” From this, Nyle accepted that Ezra died and that it isn’t too late for her to do something on Ezra’s behalf. When a loved one dies, it’s hard to accept the fact that they are gone from this world. Everyone has an expiration date but some take the fact that their loved one died and move on, others take more

“With the plant capped, people would come back…..But after the things Mr.Sobel had said about radiation and waste, I really couldn’t relax.”, although Nyle accepted the fact the accident has happened, she can’t really feel relaxed about it. Ripley Powers, his dog had gone missing. Four months later Tyrus died of radiation poisoning, Ripley had blamed Ezra. Ripley couldn’t accept the fact that Ezra didn’t kill his dog through the accident but radiation had. “But accidents happened before.They happened in other places.” Nyle accepted that Cookshire left an impact on her life, and how accidents happened and you just need to accept reality. This reminded me of the Fukushima nuclear accident. People had to face the reality of dangers of