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Mass And Frye Theme
In the book and in the poem both authors convey similar themes. In the book it is about a boy trying to find what the meaning of life and trying to find out what is in the box. And the poem is about someone who is dead and people will never forget the person who died Therefore Mass and Frye covey the message of death through the use of metaphors and personification.

The importance of this passage is that it indicates the theme of the book."To be fully in the moment. Because that's all life is, really, a string of moments that you knot together and carry with you.'' (pg:272) This implies that life is something that can be remembered as a series of events that happened through out life and death and how you can remember the person with
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