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I believe the theme in the book Picture us in the light is, the past will always catch up to you at some point in your life you cant just leave it unresolved. This is shown how dannys father loses his job and danny having to move schools because of it. The book illustrates the consequences of those who choose to run away from the past rather than face it. The book also talks about how concealing the truth only hurts relationships between people, but also delays the inevitable. This is shown how they try and hide what happened to his sister for all these years but danny just finds out on his own. The truthwould hurt alot less if they were just honest and told the truth in the first place.

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setting being new for the reader and the character 

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setting being new for the reader and the character 

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I mean this by we the reader are stepping into Danny's world and experiencing his thoughts and emotions in his life, and we experience the new setting along with the character in the book. The social setting is what drives Danny's curiosity to find out what happened to his parents in the past. This way the writer can make a lot of story behind the parents and where they came from and who they were before Danny was born. The setting starts to change as the past starts to catch up to the parents, for example, “you lost your job, why were u fired!!, what are we gonna do now, my mom screamed at the top of her lungs.”. This single event is what changes the setting alone, not only the economic setting but it also changes the social setting of the book. Danny's father is not being able to renew his green card due to his past charges of assault.

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In the novel picture us in the light, it is important to note the setting in the book and how it slowly gets worse along with Danny's relationships with his friends. As his dad loses his job due to getting fired, Danny and his family are forced to move due to a low amount of income coming in. Having the setting be new for the reader but also the character opens a lot of doors for mystery and storytelling

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the consiquinces of running from the past 

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the consiquinces of running from the past 

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Healthy honest dialogue is important to any family as it builds trust between everyone and makes everyone closer. Later in the book, Danny finds out his missing sister was actually adopted and his parents are wanted for arrest after trying to steal her, this forces Danny to make an important choice, either he stays and helps his parents with healing the past and help them financially, or go on with his life and go to college. The theme that this moral dilemma serves is you can't run from the past forever it will eventually catch up to you. This is because as much as his parents try and run from the past it always comes back to bite them. Ultimately his parents make the choice for him forcing him to go to college and leaving his life without a trace.

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how curiosity drives the story  forward 

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how curiosity drives the story  forward 

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In Picture us in the light by Kelly Loy Gilbert, the main character, Danny Cheng is an Asian American high school student on his way to college. Danny demonstrates a natural sense of curiosity that drives the plot forward as he starts to discover the past about his parents and his mysterious missing sister, This curiosity about his parent's past is his primary motivation for most of the book. His interest peaks higher and higher as his parents shove it away, and always get mad at him for trying to bring it up or talk about it, for example, “why can’t you just tell me already, we’re all family here so whats the big deal?”(pg 155).