Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Memory and Meaning
Love and Vulnerability
Freedom
Art, Creativity, and Expression
Wonder and Knowledge
Summary
Analysis
New York City. March 13, 2014. Henry walks home after leaving Addie. He says her name over and over again inside his head. Finally, he has met someone who “s[ees] a boy with dark hair, kind eyes, an open face. Nothing more. And nothing else.” He’s so happy.
The novel has hinted at the possibility that meeting Addie is as special—and unexpected—to Henry as meeting Henry has been to Addie, and this parallel scene of Henry repeating Addie’s name to himself further supports this idea. It’s as unusual that Henry has met someone who sees him for who he really is as it as for Addie to have met someone who remembers her.
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