Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Noughts and Crosses, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Racism, Division, and Tragedy
Awareness and Privilege
Love, Lust, Power, and Violence
Friendship
Youth, Innocence, and Growing Up
Family
Summary
Analysis
Sephy screams that she loves Callum as the trapdoor opens and Callum’s body swings on the rope. She can’t tell if he heard her, and she asks God to let Callum have heard her—if God’s there.
Sephy realizes that there’s nothing she can do to stop Callum’s execution. All she can do is hope that Callum died knowing he was loved.
Themes
A newspaper birth announcement states that on May 14, Sephy Hadley and the deceased Callum McGregor had a baby girl named Callie Rose. The baby’s last name is McGregor.
Giving Callie Rose Callum’s last name is a way for Sephy to honor Callum. His legacy will live on not just in his baby’s blood, but in her name as well.
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