Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in There There, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Cultural Identity vs. Personal Identity
Storytelling
Interconnectedness, Coincidence, and Chance
Generational Trauma
Summary
Analysis
As gunfire and screams fill the stadium, Opal runs downstairs to the main level. She pulls her phone out and calls Orvil, but gets no answer. She calls Loother, and though she gets through, the reception is terrible and she can barely hear him. Opal begins sobbing, unable to believe that “someone [has] really come to get [them.]” Opal runs out the front of the coliseum and sees Loother and Lony waiting for her—but Orvil is not with them.
