Theme Of Loot How To Steal A Fortune
In Jude Watson’s Loot How to Steal a Fortune, readers learn that theme is family and friends stick together but you can’t trust family all the time. You would be surprised about how many conflicts happened in the story. It was obvious that the kid gang was struggling. They were young children who were doing crime to find moonstones. There were so many antagonists that got in the way of them. The risks they were taking were very dangerous. They still managed to stay together though. The theme of this story is family and friends stick together. In the beginning of the story the protagonist March loses his father during a heist. He didn’t really have anyone after that until he found a group of friends that stuck by him. He met these group of
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While this is a good claim, there are some problems with this, however. In the story it is true that they went to a foster-like home. But the people in charge treated Jules and March like they came from a dump. “Mandy twisted in the front seat to look at Jules. Her smile was brightly false. “Okay, throw your packs and duffels down on the ground!” she trilled. “Is there a bellhop?” March asked. “Bedbugs,” Mandy Sue said. “Nobody gets in my house with their suitcases until I make sure you’re not carrying any little hitchhikers with ya! I seal up the luggage in plastic bags and then stick em in the deep freeze for two days.” “I don’t… have… bedbugs,” Jules said. But you lived on the street, riiigggght?” (Watson, 50). They just weren’t happy there and they rather have been anywhere but there. This proves they are not at fault for leaving. Yes they decided to leave on their own but they weren’t treated right. They were a lot happier leaving then they were staying. “The moon was still hanging on, not giving up on nighttime, even though pink was streaking through the stacked clouds in a sky so charged with dark, luminous blue it seemed electric. They ran, laughing at nothing except the fact that they were running, flying down blacktop roads, past the dark windows, gulping down morning air.” (Watson,
While this is a good claim, there are some problems with this, however. In the story it is true that they went to a foster-like home. But the people in charge treated Jules and March like they came from a dump. “Mandy twisted in the front seat to look at Jules. Her smile was brightly false. “Okay, throw your packs and duffels down on the ground!” she trilled. “Is there a bellhop?” March asked. “Bedbugs,” Mandy Sue said. “Nobody gets in my house with their suitcases until I make sure you’re not carrying any little hitchhikers with ya! I seal up the luggage in plastic bags and then stick em in the deep freeze for two days.” “I don’t… have… bedbugs,” Jules said. But you lived on the street, riiigggght?” (Watson, 50). They just weren’t happy there and they rather have been anywhere but there. This proves they are not at fault for leaving. Yes they decided to leave on their own but they weren’t treated right. They were a lot happier leaving then they were staying. “The moon was still hanging on, not giving up on nighttime, even though pink was streaking through the stacked clouds in a sky so charged with dark, luminous blue it seemed electric. They ran, laughing at nothing except the fact that they were running, flying down blacktop roads, past the dark windows, gulping down morning air.” (Watson,