Theme

The themes that can be found in We Are On Our Own are togetherness, fear, overcoming, perseverance, struggle, love, and war. The large amount of themes in the book is common among most tragedies because crisis often pushes us to our limits and brings out a version of ourselves that we normally wouldn’t show. The memoir does a good job of showing the themes mentioned above through dialogue, images, content, and behavior of the characters which displays strong emotions throughout it.

Included below is a photograph taken during world war 2 of one of the things that being pushed to extremes causes.

http://www.ww2shots.com/gallery/d/817-1/Hamburg+WWII+_2_-ww2shots.jpg