Themes In Blue Skin Of The Sea

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The theme of in the chapter six from the book Blue Skin of the Sea was that life is unexpected. One ways that this shows that this is the theme is because in the book the tsunami was unexpected, no one knew that it was coming. In the book it says, “Some came back just before the waves hit, thinking it was a false alarm.” This quote proves that everyone thought that it was a false alarm so they would have never known that this tsunami would wipe out a town and kill people. A second piece of evidence that shows that this is the theme is because Sonny didn’t expect that in that morning he would wake up and have to worry about his dad being dead. In the book it explains, “Dad and Uncle Raz had driven over to the other side of the island, to

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