Theme Analysis
The author- Hope Edelman, is the same young woman in the story,...she is just referring to her past. The theme that Edel is trying to convey is that, age doesn't really matter when someone passes away. Everyone realizes that its horribly upsetting when a young child or baby dies, but its also very sad when someone who has lived well up into their 80's has died. She trys to get the readers to understand that natural causes aren't always the reason for a persons death, and that we as daughters, children and people in general, need to understand and comprehend that unordinary things can happen, but only when God is ready for them to.