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Chapter 20
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Skellig, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Weakness, Strength, and Hardship
Curiosity, Nature, and Transformation
Love, Empathy, and Caregiving
Imagination, Magic, and Faith
Summary
Analysis
Michael and Mina leave the garage. While they pick cobwebs from their hair, Mina notes that the creature is “extraordinary.” Mina shows Michael a ball of dead skin and bones she found beside the creature. Dad comes to the window; Michael and Mina part ways, planning to meet at dawn the next morning to move the creature. Michael goes back to weeding the yard, feeling reassured that the creature won’t die. Later, Dad comes out with juice. When Dad asks if Michael likes Mina, Michael says she is extraordinary.
After showing the creature to Mina, Michael believes in the “extraordinary,” or that which is beyond the ordinary. Before, the creature’s “extraordinariness” led Michael to think negatively that the creature was merely a figment of his imagination. Now, Michael believes in the extraordinary as nonetheless real, a belief he demonstrates in his observation that Mina herself is extraordinary. Though Mina is real, she is also magical and remarkable in ways that transcend the ordinary.
Themes
