The Sculpture of Memory Themes

I think there are a lot of themes in this book because each of the characters are so complex and different and there are so many issues that they talk about in this book. I don't focus on themes a lot but when reading a book with so many different events going on it is easy to get distracted and i feel that writing about all the themes is a easy smart way to organize your thoughts.

One big theme in this book is trust. I think this is important because they are a group of orphans living alone with just each other. Obviously you have to trust these people if your going to go on a great adventure with them and spill a lot of your secrets. But what also comes with trust is secrets. You can have a ton of trust with someone and you can tell them everything but there will always be that one thing that is just your secret. I think everyone deserves to have their little secret no matter what, unless it is harmful in some way i think you owe it to yourself to keep some things private.

 One secret is different then many secrets which brings me to the theme of secrets. Its okay to keep one little secret but if you have your "best friends" telling you everything you should at least share something, and it should be the truth! In the book the boys Clove and Angus share a lot of their past even if it isn't always pretty. But Mary has been hiding a lot and even what they think might be true, most likely isn't. I don't want to spoil it, because this book is not actually published yet but i will say that you can't anyway believe what you hear or even worse what you remember, especially if your a character in this book.

Memories can be deceiving. You might be positive that something happened this way and then be proven completely wrong and realize what you remembered was just a figment of your imagination. for me dreams sometimes get mixed up with reality and i can't even remember if this certain even even happened to me or it was a dream. In this book the main character can control peoples memories, and make them remember stuff that isn't even close to reality. It makes me wonder if what i remember from my childhood is even true or not.