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30. Florian
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
As the group of refugees enters the estate, many of them feel relief. Ingrid, in contrast, has a bad feeling about the place. Everything inside the house has been destroyed, either by looters or roving soldiers. Joana sees that the family’s dinner was left unfinished on the tabletop, meaning they had to evacuate suddenly.
Ingrid’s premonition is related to her often preternatural ability to sense the emotional quality or texture of a place, which Sepetys attributes to her blindness.
Themes
