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Chapter 35
Themes
and Colors
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Counting by 7s, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Independent Thinking
Bureaucracy
Grief and Survival
Chosen Family
Summary
Analysis
Lenore comes to visit at Dell’s apartment, where Pattie is pretending to live with Willow and Quang-ha. She doesn’t stay long, which makes Willow think they must have passed the test. When Lenore drives away, she passes Mai, who is walking and finally made it there.
After all of the work that Pattie and the others put into fixing up Dell’s apartment, the actual visit from Lenore ends up being a little anticlimactic, showing once again how one of the problems with bureaucracy is that it often focuses more on fulfilling a checklist (like Lenore’s test) than actual results.
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Willow thanks Pattie for everything she did. They try to reach Dell before dinner, but he doesn’t answer. After dinner, they watch television on the new couch. Suddenly, Willow feels something and realizes that she’s sitting on an acorn. Mai sees it and says maybe it's a lucky acorn.
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