Themes In The Age Of Miracles

The age of miracles is a suspenseful and thrilling novel that depicts the life of a young girl named Julia struggling with everyday teen problems as well as a apocalyptic world. Humanity is having feelings and being brave. In this text walker explores the two themes first love and betrayal as they are brought up in this novel.

First love can be alluring and confronting. It’s a feeling that at the time is so compelling and foreign. We first learn about Julia’s secret obsession at the bus stop when she hears a skate+b

oard across the street and instantly knew that it was Seth, the boy she secretly watched and longed to know about,”I knew who it was without looking, but I wanted to look “as the novel progresses Julia and Seth’s relationship
The corruption and loss you suffer as a result of betrayal is one of the harshest and most corrupting situations you will ever face. Through the use of internal monologue and emotive language.” Maybe I should not have been surprised to see my father emerge from her house like that, but I was. He stopped when he saw us. I heard him take a sharp, quick breath. He set the suitcases down on the pavement” walker expresses julia's natural hesitance to assume her father wouldn't do such a thing, him being the man she should be able to look up to and trust,after this julia automatically has a new and disapproving perspective of her father and sylvia this is further developed when julia's thoughts are revealed to the reader”i hted him right then sweeping into our house in his white lab coat as if he hadn't just thrown it on moments before opening the door” this is further confirmed when ulia is confronted with another incident when her father lies yet another time as he tells julia's mother that the man helen had recently hit with her car had survived when he infact had died, julia finds out this information from eavesdropping and hearing her father on the phone to a doctor after this event it makes juli realise that her father is not a good