Witness By Karen Hesse Analysis

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Every book has a theme, a main idea that is carried throughout the story, and most novels have more than one. Main ideas are threads that weave the story together. Ideas like friendship or love often are used to tell the story. Witness by Karen Hesse has an obvious theme of racism; however, love, hate, and sacrifice are woven into the plot with sacrifice being the most important.
A few of the many themes in witness are love, hate, and sacrifice. The Theme of love is present in many aspects of the story. The theme of love is present in almost every character of this story, a few examples would be Viola and Harvey Pettibone fight throughout almost the whole book, but at the end harvey starts to realize the Klan is making him lose his

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