An interesting topic in Chasing Vermeer is how humans, especially adults, don't understand that there are things we can't scientifically explain and how we overlook incidents like these. I've learned that there's a lot more to the world we don't understand, and that we just have to observer and smile or sight at them. Like the topic itself, there's still a lot I wonder about occurrences like these: Why do they occur in the first place? Why can't we explain them scientifically? Why are adults more ignorant of them than children, like in Chasing Vermeer? There's still a lot to know.

Lastly, these coincidences are the main force that lead the main characters, especially Calder and his pattern recognition, to finding the painting. Petra has a dream of the woman in the stolen painting despite never having seen the artwork, for example.

Connotation- valuable, elegant, delicate, expensive, desirable 

Using the word chandelier adds a positive and sophisticated mood to this section of the story.  

The author used the phrase fancy chandelier so we can learn how Esperanza's great-grandfather views her great-grandmother. We learn that he loved her and really wanted to marry her. He values her and sees her as a delicate, elegant, desirable woman. The message would have been significantly different if the author said, “As if she were a sack of potatoes.”