Themes For Runaway Short Story Themes

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There are many themes in works of literature. My 2 topics of comparison have some themes that pop out from the stories. For Runaway, my fiction topic, a significant theme is poverty. Makes sense, because Holly is an orphan, since her dad died from a tractor accident, and her mother died,due to being a heroin addict. Holly says ‘’It’s a cold, hard, cruel fact that my mother loved heroin more than she loved me.’’ She also has hardly any personal belongings and no riches left behind by her parents. Another very major theme is survival. Holly needs to know how to survive on her own after she ran away from her 5th foster home. Holly has ran away before, but got caught that time and got handed over to social services.This time, Holly for sure has