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The theme of the story is respect your elders and you can follow in their footsteps because, In the story it talks about the grandfather who traveled as a young man and seeing all these new places. Then at the end of the story it talks about how the little boy followed in his grandfathers footsteps of traveling and now the boy is older and still respect the things his grandfather did.

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The story is about a grandson who wants to follow in his grandfather's footsteps and eventually create a life of his own. The main character of the story is Allen Say's grandfather who explores America after leaving Japan. The setting is 1800s, during the immigration phase. The place setting was in America. Being a Japanese man, he was quite different from the locals, this may have caused difficulty to acquire certain resources. After a few years of moving back to Japan, the war started, which caused famine, destruction, and other difficulties. to summarize, the theme of the story is that Allen Say and his grandfather have a shared love of Japan, and California.

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The theme is people can follow the path elders had taken. I know this is the theme because the grandson had followed his grandfathers steps, and because of that he lived with everything he could have wanted.

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I looked at all the candy I could buy. I had the dollar, right here in my hand, but suddenly I didn’t feel hungry. I wished that I hadn’t stolen the dollar. I wished that I hadn’t taken the money from my brother’s bank.

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THEME: The theme is you can take negative things and make them positive like being stuck in the desert he only said the rock sculptures amazed they even though he knows that his grandfather worked longer and harder so he pushed though like the text states he walked days on end he learned from his grandfather and try to follow his grandparents footsteps.

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I came up with the theme because the kid went into his grandfather footsteps even though it was long and hard .

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I know that the theme of the story is that experices of elders live on to other peoples footsteps. I know this because, in the story the  naorater grandson learned to love the homeland of his grandfather so he is learning and following in his grandfathers journey.

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The theme of the story is respect your relatives no matter what they did.

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You have to respect the relatives troubles that they have or had to their problems. In the text he understands how his grandfathers problem was hard and he really respects the problem that the grandfather and him (The narrator )faced together and the narrator had also learned his problem.

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The theme of the story is to learn from elders and also follow their path in life. I know this is the theme because in the story his grandson went to his grandfathers homeland and lived on his dream.

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The theme is you should respect your relatives and their experiences they have gone through. In the text the narrator misses his home in California but from everything his grandfather went through he is grateful for the land he has.

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The theme of the story is that you should respect your relatives past life and respect the troubles that they went through in there life. The narrator in the story respected the troubles and adventurers that his grandfather went through.

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theme: I know the theme is to learn from your elder's footstep's because the text show the grandson/narrator following his grandfathers footstep's and traveling around the world and loving his grandfather's home/childhood land.

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I know that the theme of the story is that experience of people live on to be in others people's footsteps. This is because the grandson is following the footsteps of his grandfather.

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Theme: The theme of the story is people crave for what they don't have and they should follow your elders wisdom, California was the son's hometown where he grew up, he was homesick and wanted to go to Japan following his Grandfather's foot step.

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I know the theme of the story is you should respect your relatives and trouble they have or had. In the text the narrator knows about the trouble his dad had and respects it by living in Japan and visiting California even though California is his hometown.

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I think that the theme in the book grandfather's journey  that you have to appreciate  what you have because in the past, an ancestor has been through many things to result in where you are here now. For example, in the book, the grandfather has been through many things causing the grandson to appreciate where his homeland is.

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The theme of the story is that people should respect what their elders have to go through in life and  be happy for what they have right now. This is because the grandson is doing what his grandfather wanted to do.

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The theme is that respecting and learning about the trouble that the elders went through helped me apreciate the place they lived at or made because it tells me near the end of the book.

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I know the theme is that experiences of people live on to there elders footsteps because the text shows the grandson following into the footsteps on his grandfather traveling and loving his homeland.

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I know that the theme of the story is that experices of elders live on to other peoples footsteps. I know this because, in the story the narroters grandson learned to love the homeland of his grandfather so he is learning and following in his grandfathers journey.

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I know the theme is you should respect your  relative and the trouble they have been through and the troubles they had. In the text the narrator understand the troubles grandfather went through.

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I know the theme of the story is to respect your relatives home land and live in it even though you didn't grow up there. I know because in the story the narrator learned to live in his grandfathers homeland even though he did not grow up there by learning what his grandfather went through.

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The theme of the story is you should respect your relatives journey and the problem they went through  and how they faced it . I know this because in the story the boy learned his grandfathers journey and followed in his footsteps by moving to California and visiting his homeland .

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The theme of the story is You should respect your reletives and the trouble they had. In the story the narrator knew what trouble his grandfather had went through for him to live in japan and visit California.

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The theme is to follow your elders  lead and footsteps. I know because in the text it shows that the grandson learned about his grandpa's journey and then respected where he lived even more. Even though he felt homesick remembering about his grandpa's journey he felt as he was at home.

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I know the theme is  experiences live on to be  in other people's  footsteps. This is because, the grandson followed in his elders footsteps.

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The theme of the story is to learn from your elders and build upon their vast wisdom to live a positive life. I know this because the narrators grandfather constantly wanted to go to the country he was not in. He learned that he should love his home and avoid craving for the things he did not have which was his grandfathers mistake.