Essay Archive - Themes in Ellen Foster
Themes in Ellen Foster
The title of the novel Ellen Foster is self explanatory. Ellen
Foster was the main character in the book. It is a story about a child,
Ellen, who has many experiences with deaths of members in her family. This
causes her to move from house to house looking for a final, stable
environment to live in. She is belonging to no one and she must fight to
maintain her own spirit. Her counselor questions her at school about her
name change. Ellen changed her last name to Foster because she felt that
the new family was her’s now. She didn’t understand that foster was the
type of family where lost children were t....
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