Checkouts By Cynthia Rylant The theme in “Checkouts ‘’, is winnings. Cynthia uses the theme of love. Love eventually leads to sarcasm. The setting is in Cincinnati, in a supermarket down the street from her home. When she went to the supermarket, she met someone who was the bag boy. He dropped the mayonnaise jar; she instantly had fallen in love with him. She kept coming back wanting to see him again. The red headed girl, and he ended up living different lives, they forgot about the time they once fell in love. “As fate would have it her visits to the supermarket never coincided with his schedule to the bag. (Hyperbole) “That was enough to distract him, and when finally it was her groceries he was packing she looked at him and smiled, and