The Themes In Jane's Distant Waves

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Register to read the introduction… Even when given proof of things that could be real, she dismisses them without a glance. She is stubbern and not easily persuaded, but loveable and kind so therefor, she is my second faveorite character in Distant Waves, Jane taking first plave. Emma/Amalie- These are the quirky twins who posess the “gift”- - that means that they are mediums and could see into the spirit world. Amalie has the gift more, and never speaks unless through Emma, which is why they are tetnically two people in one body. Near the end of the book when Emma dies, her soul goes into Amalie's body and they truly become one. They can also hear eachothers thoughts.

THEME: The theme in Distant Waves is the impossible is always possible. There is various evidence throughout the book with the various inventions. Here is an excellent example! (p.316) I think I know what might have happened. I hope so, at least.
Telsa's time travel device threw him and me two hours and forty minutes into the future. For some reason, it sent Thad and Mimi two years and four months forward in
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LAUNCHING INCIDENT: The whole morbid turn of events starts when Maud, Jane's mother, decides to pack up her whole family (four girls and herself) to move to Spirit Vale where she preforms medium services at the sake of her children not being around many others and lacking some social skills.
RISING ACTION 1: The first rising action is when Mimi discovers that the woman who she thought was her mother, the woman who had raised her, is not her real mother but the wife of her father, who had a love child with a Haitian women. She finds out that she is actually African.
RISING ACTION 2: Jane and Mimi travel to New York City in search of their futures and to find Niccola Telsa, a great inventor and scientist who was not as well know because he was scammed and blackmailed, and frowned upon by Thomas Edison.
RISING ACTION 3: The family, all accept for Maude, their mother, gets trapped on the Titanic while frantically warning their sister Mimi not to go on it because they figured out that it would sink by several spiritual

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