Theme is always an important part of a book. The whole book revolves around the them. Themes can be love, friendship, or leaving a place to find hope just like in the book "The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie.
On page 43, the main the main character Junior, and he teacher talk after school about an incident that happened in class. Instead of yelling, he gives him advice, he tells him that you are going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation. And Junior takes his advice by transferring schools. After he transferring a different theme opens up, betrayal.
When he leaves, his home town hates him and his new school picks on him for his race. Having his home town think that Junior betrayed them shapes a lot of his book, like a lot of it is getting over his lost best friend.
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