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Night He D Reach Out To Touch The Boy Sleeping Theme

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The first main theme in this novel is the paternal love that the man has for the boy. This theme shows in many different examples. “And the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping" (1). This shows the paternal love in the book because the dad is worried about the child throughout the whole book. Some examples of the man showing love for the boy are so deep the at one point the man gives the boy most of the food out of the small amount that they do have. The man barely ate anything because he has more worried that the boy wasn't getting everything that he needs to survive, but at the same time, the man wasn't getting everything that he needed to live.The man's wife even says that the boy will be his only reason for survival.
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