Blue Skin Of The Sea Analysis

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In the novel, Blue Skin of the Sea, the theme of the chapter is to never underestimate nature.This means that you should never have doubt in anything. One example is that the book states, “The fish market was gone! Waiakea Town was gone!” (page 102) This meant that when Sonny and Keo were on the search of Sonny’s dad, they had been everything had been fine, but as a soon as they had arrived at the sight, the town and others were in danger. The book, it also says, “. . .rows of bodies laid out on the ground covered with blankets. . .” (page 101) This explains that the many people had been hit critically. A few people: Keo and Sonny had probably thought that all the power outage and cell phone services were just a blackout, but it was astonishing

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