The Three Learning Themes

Author’s note: This piece is about three main ideas from the book The Wizard Heir, by Cinda Williams Chimes. Also the three main ideas are something to learn from too.

            Have you ever read a book that has themes to learn from? In the book The Wizard Heir, by Cinda Williams Chimes, there are three learning themes. The most obvious one is always using the help you can get. Also these themes carry throughout the story like with the first one, the main character, Joseph, went to go get revenge on his old principal, Mr. Leicester, and he denied having his friend’s help.  As I said before, the three themes are definitely the themes that carry out through the story, and they are also themes to learn from.

            One of the most obvious themes was defying stereotyping. The main character’s friend, Madison, was treated like a helpless little girl. During one of the events of the book when Madison had to go attack a bad guy, the bad guy told her that she couldn’t do any harm (p.419). Then when they fought against each other, she won.  Also when she met Joseph for the first time, Joseph was treating her like a harmless person. It was so obvious that Madison clearly had been treated like a little girl when she was actually a really powerful person.

            Even though that was the most obvious theme, another one is that friends always have your back. When Joseph always went to attack people, he would always deny his friend’s help. Like during the time he was going to attack Mr. Leicester, Madison offered him help and he said, “This isn’t a good time.” (p.). Also during the book, Joseph and Madison were having a picnic and a couple of Mr. Leicester’s student came to attack Joseph and he told Madison to run and not help him. If Joseph would’ve had accepted his friend’s help, he would’ve succeeded more on fighting against people.

            Finally, another theme that was interesting was always using the help you can get. During the same time when Joseph went to go get revenge on Mr. Leicester, a man got in his way, Mr. Hastings, and was about to attack him but Madison saved Joseph from the man. Eventually he said thank you on page 323, and always used Madison’s help whenever he could get it. Also during the book when Joseph was getting attacked by Mr. Leicester’s students, he was about to lose until his friend Ellen came and saved him.

            It is clear that the three themes carry throughout the story, and the events deal with the theme too. Two of the main themes also tie together. Those two are that friends always have your back, and that you should always use the help you can get. Those two tie together because the main character always makes those two mistakes and it has to deal with his friends. The three main ideas are lessons to learn from and they carry throughout the story.