LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in I Am the Messenger, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Circumstance vs. Choice
Heroism, Sainthood, and Ordinariness
Purpose, Success, and Meaning
Hope, Caring, and Beauty
Summary
Analysis
The children dance in the Christmas lights and Ed watches Lua and Marie holding hands. He realizes how happy they are. Lua kisses Marie gently and she kisses him back. Ed thinks about how beautiful some people are, not because of how they look, but because of how they live.
The beauty Ed sees in Lua and Marie’s affection for each other shows how caring for others will lead one to recognize and appreciate how other people also express caring for one another.