Theme Analysis
The theme of "Blood on the River" is make decisions out of love not anger.x One event that showed this theme was when Samuel needed to make decisions out of love not anger because Samuel had stolen his dead mother’s locket. The text states, “There is the locket, displayed on a piece of beaver felt. I close my fingers around the cool, smooth silver. I haven’t touched it since the day she died. Mine. It should be mine, because it was hers.” (2). This quote shows that the theme is make decisions out of love not anger because if Samuel had thought about love, he would have remembered his mom and knew that she wouldn’t like him stealing her locket. Samuel had made the decision of stealing the locket out of anger because