Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Monday’s Not Coming, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Child Abuse
Family, Community, and Responsibility
Growing Up, Independence, and Friendship
Secrecy and Shame
Poverty, Social Support, and Desperation
Memory, Repression, and Trauma
Summary
Analysis
Daddy would be forest green if he was a color. He’s calm and can impart “refreshing wisdom.” Michael would be brown, like bark. It’s the color of earth, quiet and supportive. Claudia thinks of them as the tree that supports her, “The tree of life when surrounded by death.”
Claudia implies here that she needs people like Daddy and Michael, especially as she comes closer to unraveling Monday’s mystery. She has other people to lean on aside from Monday, if only she acknowledges them and leans on them.
Themes
