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Chapter Twenty-Eight
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Children of Blood and Bone, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Prejudice and Inequality
Duty to Family vs. Self
Faith and Tradition
Cycles of Violence
Summary
Analysis
Overwhelmed by the number of boats, Zélie feels like she’s losing faith in herself. Tzain looks into her eyes and says that their mother was strong, and so is Zélie. Gathering her strength, she summons an animation of a spirit and commands it to help take down a nearby ship, wishing her mother could see her.
Zélie’s faith wavers when she is faced by extremely difficult situations. But, once again, her connection to her mother strengthens her faith and gives her confidence in her abilities.
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