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Part 1: Gender, Sex, Sexuality, Romance: Some Terms
Themes
and Colors
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The 57 Bus, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Gender and Sexuality
Adolescent Crime vs. Adult Crime
Binary Thought and Inclusive Language
Discrimination and Social Justice
Accountability, Redemption, and Forgiveness
Summary
Analysis
Slater also includes a list of Sasha’s preferred terms. It reads: “Agender. / Gray-cupiosexual. / Quoiromantic / Also: Vegan.”
Sasha’s sexual identity is so nuanced that they must hyphenate their terms in order to be adequately represented, even within this more inclusive list of terms.
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