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Nonfiction Themes
These two books share a common theme. In the fiction resource The old man and the sea the theme is easily identified versus the nonfiction where you need to really listen into what they are saying. The theme they compare is when you are faced with a problem instead of giving up try to find a solution to the conflict. The old man only had a 12 foot skipper and the fish was a foot longer than the boat and the line could barely hold the fish's weight but he fought and eventually harpooned the fish.In the nonfiction resource the fish was wrapped in the line and they had to figure out a solution to bring in the fish without causing harm to the fish. Another theme leads that the technology does not matter just get the job done. Even though this theme

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