Running Themes

Member Joined : 19 Jan 2008 Posts : 60

What are some of the running themes in the books?

One of the main running themes is probably the betraying of a child by its mother.

Member Joined : 19 Jan 2008 Posts : 60

One of the running themes is definitely rape, and another, incest.

Admin Joined : 14 Jan 2008 Posts : 114

Yep, all three of those are very prevalent running themes. I would say that another is the death of the parents, or at least the father.

Junior Member Joined : 06 Apr 2008 Posts : 30

Another one would be The poor girl finds out she is rich.
Another one, the mother is always a ditz and only cares about looking good.
The Grandmother rules the family is another good one.

Admin Joined : 14 Jan 2008 Posts : 114

Another is a hero (male) figure who strays off the path of "good" at least once, but we like him again later.

Examples:

Logan cheating on Heaven with Fanny.
Cary is a jerk to Melody at first.

Another is the lead female character straying away from the love interest we think she should be with, but she falls for somebody else.

Examples:

Heaven with Cal instead of Logan.
Dawn with Michael Sutton instead of Jimmy.
Melody develops a crush on Kenneth while she's with Cary.

Junior Member Joined : 30 Mar 2008 Posts : 12

These are all really great. How about... the main heroine is always intelligent, but still naive.

She starts a relationship with the wrong guy, sees that this guy is wrong or bad, and then her hero shows up.