A lot of life issues are addressed in this novel. They aren't all issues you might encounter in everyday life, since the circumstances of the story were pretty rare. I mean, not everybody becomes the youngest soloist in the American Ballet Theater and snaps her leg in half on her debut, then gets drunk at her mothers wedding and gets carted off to Alabama where she sees ghosts and witnesses voodoo rituals, right?
However, the novel does teach some valuable lessons, if you apply them correctly to your life. I think a particularly important theme is trust. One must place trust in another to achieve happiness and content. But at the same time, one must be cautious in who to place trust. There are people who are genuinely willing to help you, and there are people who are just out or power, and this can be demonstrated in the relationships between Sylvie and Rhys (the good guy) and Sylvie and Shawn (the psycho).
Also, another lesson is to respect the balance in nature. Never try to change the way things work just to make things go in your favor, a lesson learned by Shawn, when he tried to twist fate so that he could have everything he wanted. Instead, he ended up unleashing a huge storm and a torrent of tortured spirits. Need I say more?
But, like I said, I feel that the most important theme is trust. Trust other people, trust your instinct, and trust the fact that everything will eventually be fine.
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