This is a hard question to answer because ‘The Cider House Rules’ answers to a lot of themes. The life of an orphan is obviously very much a theme, that’s were it all starts and Homer’s orphan side will always follow him. Throughout the whole book we get to see him watch the world through a new perspective: for him, it’s a total new inexperienced world. He learns and his path to adulthood/society member goes on.
There’s a prominent motif in the story and that’s the sentence: wait and see. As an orphan, the only things you do are to wait and see. Wait for what the world has to offer you, and see how everyone else lives in a world that is not quite similar to yours. As a member of society you’re expected to just do what has to happen and follow the stream that we call fate. You have to see how things turn out and then accept that this is your path. You can’t really do anything else. It’s difficult to take the heft in your own hands and then steer the rear of your continuous life. I feel like Melony is the only one who didn’t really wait and see, especially after she found out that Homer left her and broke his promise. Maybe it was then that she fully realized that life isn’t going to offer you things, and that things will turn out how you want if to happen
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Nevertheless, in the beginning of the book it isn’t mentioned at all. Then, at page 300-something slowly the word rules kept popping up. Everywhere in the book, unbeknown or not, are rules. It makes me believe that the writer wanted me to know that you’re never really free, even if Homer thinks so after he gets out the orphanage. There are the rules of the orphanage, rules of the cider house, rules on how to live in a society, rules on how to treat a paralyzed Wally ... Everywhere. There’s no escaping a controlled life, because everywhere you go you need to follow at least some