The themes of these stories are that change is disconcerting. It is this because both stories have some sort of major change to one's life. In, “A Boy's Life” he gets talked to differently ,and in “Emancipation A Life Fable” the animal finds happiness
The theme of both texts is that Change is disconcerting. This is stated in a boy's life when he said that it is disconcerting when your teacher is talking to you like a normal person.
This is how i saw the theme in a boy's life.
In Emancipation A Life Fable it states that the animal was in captivity for who knows how long but he wasn't comfortable he still got everything he needed like food and water. Then one day he found his cage door open