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Chapter 40
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Noughts and Crosses, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Racism, Division, and Tragedy
Awareness and Privilege
Love, Lust, Power, and Violence
Friendship
Youth, Innocence, and Growing Up
Family
Summary
Analysis
Sephy is so confused. It’s only been three years since Meggie worked for Mother, but the McGregors today are nothing like what Sephy remembers from three years ago. Sephy feels for the McGregors after what almost happened to Mother. She could easily be in the same place right now, but her attempts to show compassion just keep falling flat.
In Sephy’s mind, she and the McGregors are in the same boat in that they’ve all recently experienced a death or a near-death in the family. But she’s unable to see how her privilege and her power make her an unsympathetic figure to Callum’s family—and make any sympathy she shows them seem contrived.
Themes
