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Miranda's Story 'Life As We Knew It'
The theme in the story “ Life as we knew it “, is staying together as a family for survival. I know that because in the story Miranda's’ family is always struggling to gather food, and supplies that they need, and they need it for survival. For example, at the end of the story Miranda goes outside and she finds a yellow letter. It was talking about the “ City Hall “ and Miranda went and she found out that they were giving away food in bags. She told the mayor that they really needed the food and they believe her so they take her back to her house and all of her family was proud, and they finally had food for at least a week or so. Also they are surviving as a family because whenever they run out of food they are always eating about

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