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Among The Hidden Themes

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Among the Hidden Themes One theme in Among the Hidden is “survival”. This is a theme because when you're a third child you have to know how to survive. You have to hide, or you’ll get caught and killed. Luke hid for so long until one day, when he saw a face in the neighbor's window. This leads us to our second theme of the story. The second theme for Among the Hidden is “Standing up for what you think is right”. This is very important because it is referred to most in the story. Luke thinks it is the right thing to do he wanted to make a change, so he went to see if there was another third child. He was standing up for what he thought was right. Another theme of Among the hidden is “love”. Luke's parents cared and loved him so much that they

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