Olive's Ocean Poem Summary

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Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes is about friendship. What the author is trying to say about friendship is even if you didn’t know a person well, you still could have been friends with them. I know this because when Olive died, her mother went to Martha’s house and gave her part of Olive’s journal which read, “...What else do I hope? I hope that I get to know Martha Boyle next year (or this summer). I hope that we can be friends. That is my biggest hope”. After this, Martha could think of nothing but Olive. This develops into Martha bringing Olive home a piece of something she hoped she could see one day, but died before seeing it. Martha has many values, but some of the more noticeable ones were courage and kindness. I think this because Martha

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