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Part 4: Pretty
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The 57 Bus, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Gender and Sexuality
Adolescent Crime vs. Adult Crime
Binary Thought and Inclusive Language
Discrimination and Social Justice
Accountability, Redemption, and Forgiveness
Summary
Analysis
At the dance, everything is perfect. “The dress is pretty and Sasha is pretty and the room is pretty and Nemo is pretty,” Slater writes. Sasha loves ballroom dancing, and tonight “nobody is going to mistake them for a boy.” “What I want,” Sasha explains, “is for people to be confused about what gender I am.” That doesn’t “happen too often.”
