The novel Wicked and the poem If both have a theme that can be shown through characterization. Both texts have a similar theme with the acceptance of …show more content…
This is shown through characters fighting themselves or others in a positive and negative manner. In the novel Wicked Charles Halloway is fighting himself in the fact that he does not accept himself as a person. “I’ll go there, thought Charles Halloway, I won’t go there”(Bradbury 55). Although, Charles Halloway is not fighting anyone besides himself the fact that he cannot make a decision shows that he is having emotional turmoil. The poem If expresses the theme through a similar act of character. “If you meet you meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two the same”(Rudyard 11/12). Similar to Wicked, If describes the theme through the emotional turmoil of a character. In fact, both texts expresses the theme of emotional acceptance through the conflict of characters. Wicked’s theme is connected to the text The Art Of Resilience through emotional