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Chapter 1
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Son of a Trickster, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Dysfunctional Families, Responsibility, and Maturity
Love vs. Violence
Escapism and Confronting Problems
The Environment and Human Destruction
Summary
Analysis
The root of supernatural ability is the realization that all time exists simultaneously. Most human beings do not have magic because they have a limited view of time, in the same way they see the horizon as flat when in reality it is curved. The narrator instructs, “remember that you were not always earthbound,” explaining that every living creature, every drop of water and mountain, was once a star or a beam of light, and that people can remember this.
This passage suggests that humans are interconnected with the natural world and with the rest of the universe, because every living creature and every drop of water were once beams of light or parts of stars. But in saying that humans have to “remember” this, the book implies that humans have forgotten that they are connected to things that are larger than themselves.
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