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Chapter 12. Two Years Before the Before
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Monday’s Not Coming, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Child Abuse
Family, Community, and Responsibility
Growing Up, Independence, and Friendship
Secrecy and Shame
Poverty, Social Support, and Desperation
Memory, Repression, and Trauma
Summary
Analysis
If Mrs. Charles were a color, she would be bright yellow, like a banana, pineapple, or dandelion. But Claudia notes that a single drop of another color will spoil the yellow—and “dandelions are nothing but pretty weeds.”
Here, Claudia suggests that Mrs. Charles isn’t all bad. But saying that dandelions are just pretty weeds suggests that Mrs. Charles is actually a sinister character—it implies she’s a “weed” existing amongst other flowers.
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