Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in A Hundred Flowers, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Redemption
Journeys and Growth
Suffering, Strength, and Resilience
Home and Family
The Promises and Failures of Communism
Summary
Analysis
On the day Tao’s cast will be removed, he listens to Kai Ying slip out of the gate early in the morning to go to the market. School has been in session for two weeks, and recently Little Shan visited with the news that, in Tao’s absence, he has become second student. Seeing Little Shan again made Tao realize how much life has changed since his fall.
Climbing the tree was, in part, Tao’s attempt to return his life to the way it was before his father’s arrest. As if to emphasize the impossibility of this wish, not only did his climb fail, but when he fell and injured himself, the repercussions of his actions shook up his life even more.
Themes
