Progress Check 3
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- Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
- Theme
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- Theme Development #1
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- “I was a very close friend of your uncle Finn, and I was wondering if it might be at all possible for us to meet up…I think you are perhaps the only person who misses Finn as much as I do,” (12.3-12.4)
- Progress Check #3: ThemeBy Yu Xiao
- Theme Development #2
- "Toby asked for one of my Finn stories…I told him about how once on Thanksgiving, when everyone else was watching the football game, Finn and I snuck out of the house and walked into the woods until we were lost,” (37.150).
- A major theme in this novel is that loss can bring people together. This theme is demonstrated best by the progression of Toby and June’s relationship. From being almost complete strangers to the closest of confidantes, Toby and June’s development is propelled by the loss of someone they both loved: Finn.
- Theme Development #3
- “I dialed Finn’s apartment…’I’m scared. I don’t know. I’m grounded. I can’t get her home,’ …‘ I’ll go. For you,’” (57.4 , 57.12, and 57.36)
- This theme is first introduced when Toby sends a letter to June, asking her to meet him at the train station. Initially strangers who’ve only met once at the funeral, Toby takes the initiative to arrange a meeting. He urges June to accept, stating that she might be “the only person who misses Finn as much as I do…” (12.4). Finn’s death connects Toby and June together and is initially the reason why Toby reached out to June.
- Thematic Solution
- “But there is another place in my heart that knows I finally kept my promise. I was the one who took care of Toby right up to the very end…One thing I do know is that my superpower is gone. My heart is broken and soft,” (65.15-16)
- The theme is further developed by Toby and June’s various interactions together after June accepted the train station invitation. They share stories of Finn with each other, learn more about Finn’s life, and talk about their grief. In the process, Toby and June grow closer together and understand each other in a way others do not. In this image, June tells Toby about one of her experiences with Finn while walking downtown in the rain.
- June cannot make it to her arranged meeting with Greta at the play's afterparty because she is grounded for making additions to Finn's painting. There is lightning and rain outside, and June is afraid that Greta may be caught by cops. The first person that pops into her mind to help her out is Toby. Their interactions, grief, loss, and understanding of one another show the closeness of their relationship and the progress they have made since the first time they met. Toby is willing to drop everything to help June out.
- The theme is ultimately resolved with Toby's death at the end of the novel. June states that she will always feel guilt for unintentionally shortening his life. She reveals that while Finn was her first love, Toby was her second. She has grown to consider Toby her best friend and the closest of confidantes, bonding over their insecurities, emotions, etc. As June implies in the scene above, Toby will always stay in her heart. Through Toby and June's relationship progression over the course of the novel, it is shown that family, friends, and even strangers will have stronger and more familiar relationships with loss.
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