Theme Blog- Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie Propmt:Your blog for your 40 Book Challenge this week will focus on theme. You will need to determine a theme and analyze its development throughout the novel. By looking closely at character's actions, the setting, plot events, and/or the conflict, you can identify clues that are written by the author to help teach you (the reader) a message about life or human nature. Start first by looking at your 'Universal Theme' sheet to help you get started.
The book Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie, by Jordan Sonnenblick is a book that conveys many themes throughout the book however one that is major is family comes first. I believe that this is one of the themes in the book because in the book Steven (the main character) is faced to deal with his brothers medical issue (leukemia). In the book Steven now has his brother in the back of his mind because he feels like it's his fault however Jeffery his brother has been diagnosed with this disease before hand. In conclusion Steven actually helped because if it wasn't for him his parents wouldn't have known about it. There are many ways that the author tells this theme to us, "The longer I pretended like everything was normal at school, the more I believed everything was normal." (P.52). I believe that this quote helps represent how family always comes first is because he was constantly worried on how his brother Jeffery was/is doing.
Another theme that I find important in the book is neglect. I find this quote important because in the book the parents seem to be in their own world. In the book the mother says, how could she not realize her poor baby was limping all this time. I also believe this is important because in the book the character Steven is longing for contact with his father. His mother has now left with Jeffery to go see a doctor leaving Steven and his father in a house alone. Steven says in the book "Dad, how about sometime this week, just for kicks, you try making eye contact with me." (P. 58). I find this important because in the book Steven has no way to let out his emotions besides drumming and because of this thats the only way he can vent. I think that this is sort of unhealthy because Steven and his father should be able to talk about important things like his brother having Leukemia and reassuring Steven that it will all be okay.
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