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Part 5: Caitlin, November 2002
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in I Will Always Write Back, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Kindness and Generosity
Friendship
Family
Education
Summary
Analysis
In Zimbabwe, Martin finds that he’s the only one at his school without a definite plan about where he’ll be going to university. His friends debate where would be best to go, but Martin says he just needs one to give him a full scholarship.
Martin, too, is finding out that his dream doesn’t quite match up with reality—because he has applied to U.S. universities, he must live with an uncertainty that his other classmates don’t have to deal with.
Themes
Martin gets to the SAT test site early and feels that the test is challenging, but he doesn’t let it discourage him. He goes back to school, says goodbye to his headmaster, and then goes home to his family, where he makes daily trips to an internet café to check in with Caitlin and Caitlin’s mom.
Though Martin is anxious about his future, he remains dedicated to his goals. His trips to an internet café show that he is increasingly connected to the outside world, even as he goes back to his family.
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