LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Forty Rules of Love, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Love and Spirituality
Connections Across Distance and Time
Appearances vs. Reality
Storytelling and Truth
Summary
Analysis
Ella. Northampton, August 12, 2008. Ella wakes up and prepares breakfast for David, Avi, and Orly. She spends the rest of the day cooking an elaborate dinner. She has packed a suitcase and wonders if there is still time for her to make a change in life.
Ella’s visit with Aziz has changed her in irreversible ways, and this passage shows how she is prepared to pack up and leave her old life without looking back, all while her family doesn’t realize what has changed about her beneath the surface.