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 writes a letter to God, asking him to leave Callum’s family alone. She amends that request—this must be the devil’s work. But maybe that’s not right either. Maybe God invented hate, and now people blame him or the devil because that’s easier than blaming themselves. This is so confusing. But God should help Callum’s family—and everyone else.
Sephy is so confused by her world that the only place she feels she can turn is to God. But even then, prayer doesn’t seem to offer much relief. Sephy is trying to figure out where racism comes from, essentially, and she’s coming up empty. But she does know that her world needs help, or tragedies like Dad’s death are just going to keep happening.
Themes
