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160. Alfred
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Salt to the Sea, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Agency, Willpower, and Fate
Storytelling and Fantasy
Memory and Survival
Family and Community vs. Selfishness
Summary
Analysis
The sea is full of corpses. Florian tires to rescue a girl in the water, to the protestations of a woman in the boat who worries he’ll capsize it. He pulls the girl in anyway.
Florian slumps down next to Joana and Klaus. He thinks, “Fate is a hunter. Its barrel pressed against my forehead.”
Throughout the novel, Florian has repeated the phrase “fate is a hunter.” He believed he was somehow cursed, and the sinking of the ship has only confirmed this.
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