Scarlet The Lunar Chronicles Analysis

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In Scarlet The Lunar Chronicles the author is trying to teach the reader you don’t need to trust strangers . The author is trying to teach the reader you need to trust strangers. When Wolf says “I want to help”. Scarlet should’ve just told him to go away because she just met him a couple days before, she knew nothing about him. Scarlet knew she shouldn’t have trusted him when he turned her over to his “Pack”.

You can’t trust strangers. For example when you first meet a person you wouldn’t tell them a very private secret. You can’t trust strangers. For instance when a stranger ask you for your credit card you won’t give it to them because they might take tall your information.I chose to not get in this strangers car because they might

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