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The road to family is often tough, and hard to cross, but it is always worth it. -Eric Coppé

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The kid thinks ahead, it is evident from the story when he says that he asks teachers for assignment due dates so that he can make schedules and he has his clothes on rotation, and seeing his dad as the opposite of him maybe he realizes that he plans TOO much and wants to be more like him in that sense, or he sees his dad is irresponsible and strives not to be like his dad, OR he wants to find a balance in between himself and his dad.

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Finding joyous moments in an event as momentously dreary as a divorce is difficult, so this moment must have been rare, and thus worth commemorating.
-Kiley

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The theme of powder is that, If you try to enjoy the moment, you can find the good in everyone. At first, the narrator is skeptical and looks at his father with icy contempt. But after he realizes resistance towards his dad is futile, he changes his attitude and sees the good in not just his dad, but the moment.
-Olivia

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Don’t let worry or emotion take control of you and embrace the moment.

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One theme of Powder is that when you let go of worrying and enjoy the moment you will ultimately be happier.

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An important moment is in the second to last paragraph when he finally loosens up and lives a little.

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When he realizes that he can relax and doesn’t need to worry about where he is going, and doesn’t need to keep his guard up. He calms down, relaxes, and actually starts enjoying himself.

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There is no point in trying to change the inevitable, it's better to try to enjoy what you can.

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The nightclub is a place of improvisation, where rules are abandoned and rewritten, similar to the protagonist’s father.

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“I knew we’d get caught” and “I stopped moping and began to enjoy”
These 2 quotes, right after each other, demonstrate how the main character changed from thinking ahead and over thinking everything, to just living in the moment and enjoy himself.

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One important detail is the fact that he father calls his son “doctor.” This detail displays to the reader that the son is very serious and doesn’t know how to loosen up. This also solidifies the idea of role-reversal between the father and the son.

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Important quotes:
“If you haven’t driven fresh powder, you haven’t driven” This could be a metaphor to say if you haven’t taken risks or broken the rules, then you haven’t lived a full life.
“sneaking me into a night club during his last visit” Giving the readers a glance into who the father is as a person, and the relationship the father and son have.

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“Because he didn’t believe that they would make it because he was worrying and assuming the worst would happen, then he was proved wrong and started to have fun without worrying”

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Risks are an essential part of life

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1. When people take risks they are more capable of experiencing the thrill of life.
2. An individual’s age or past experience does not determine their amount, or in this story, lack of responsibility/good judgement.
-Jahnavi

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Significance - jahnavi, rose, caera, and paulina 

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Significance - jahnavi, rose, caera, and paulina 

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He started to admire the spontaneous and carefree mindset his father had. His entire life he always thought through things before doing something, and the memories and experiences he made with his father were always careless (given little thought). This is significant because it serves as a reminder to live life spontaneously every once and a while.

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A significant moment was when his father removed the barricade; it highlighted the contrast between the personality of the father who was eager and the son who was cautious. The father said “Joke, Son” after the barricade displaying his care free attitude, while his son remained silent.

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Maybe the author wrote this story to commemorate the divorce of his parents. It is a big moment in anyone’s life, especially a child’s, and he wanted to include the moments leading up to the divorce.

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The car is knowledge in this theme
-Kiley

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Powder symbolizes living in the present; with the powder on the road, the protagonist could not see in front or behind him. Symbolically, this means that he could not see the future or worry about the past, and is thus forced to live in the moment and enjoy the present.

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Successful parenthood is dependent on a parent-child relationship filled with trust.
-Kiley

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The use of knowledge determines bliss or anxiety
-Kiley

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“I knew we’d get caught. I resigned to it, and maybe for this reason. I stoped moping and began to enjoy myself.”

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There is no use in fretting over the inevitable

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You should trust the people around you and take chances.
-Marianne

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One does not need to understand someone in order to love them unconditionally.

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Don’t let worry or emotion take control of you and embrace the moment.