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The Messenger Theme

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Messenger by Lois Lowry is a dystopian book about a boy who wants to be known as “The Messenger” so he does anything he can to deliver messages while the whole village wants the forest to be closed because they think it's dangerous.There are many themes in this book, but one of the important ones is: “Be Grateful for the things you have in life because you never know how long you’ll have them.” The story demonstrates this theme when Gatherer died Matty realized he took him for granite. Another theme in the story was “Be your own person even if you don't have things in common with other people.” The story demonstrates this theme when Matty would be the only one to deliver messages to and from the village and the forest.

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