The Ultimate Gift and the River have analogous literary themes throughout the story lines. The literary theme us the universal truth the story teaches, it is what the main character learns. Throughout these stories, both of the main characters are struggling with the conjoint theme of forgiveness breaks the bondage of grief. Occasionally the main character in The River struggled with forgiving people and The River. Such as having clemency on the person who endangered Gabriel’s dad’s life. Since his father died when he was a kid, he isolated himself from people because of that grief. As a result of his father’s death the main character, Gabriel, had a grim interval of forgiving the cause of Gabriel’s dad’s death. He could not cope with the
