Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Akata Witch, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Identity and Belonging
The Individual vs. the Collective
Friendship and Teamwork
Education, Power, and Corruption
Summary
Analysis
The following morning, Sunny wakes up to find that Della has created a sculpture of Black Hat out of sawdust—it knocks the figure’s head off as Sunny watches. Sunny laughs, praises Della, and then picks up her newspaper. The first story is about the toddlers who were returned to their parents under mysterious circumstances. Down further on the page, a headline reads that a gas station—the one Black Hat owned—burned down after it was struck by lightning.
When it comes to Black Hat, things seem to be tying up nicely. It’s impossible to tell whether the lightning was natural, sent by someone in Leopard Knocks, or brought on by Black Hat’s own selfishness. But how it is destroyed matters less to Sunny than the sense that finally, justice is being served.
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