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Chapter 58
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
Dell puts on a suit and tells his boss that he has to show up in court for a student. He’s been losing weight recently. Down the hall from him in the other apartment building, Pattie also gets ready for court. Over in her history class, Mai is mad that she can’t go to court too, so she eventually she gets the idea to lie about a family emergency to get out of school for the day.
When Dell puts on formal clothes, he demonstrates his firm commitment to both improving himself and helping Willow. His lower weight suggests that he has been sticking with exercise, in spite of the difficulties. Although Willow feels alone and isolated at the foster care facility, this chapter emphasizes how many of the people in Willow’s life are planning to show up to support her. The fact that so many people care about Willow shows what a positive force she’s been to them.
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