Theme Of Perseverance In The Running Dream

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Have you ever wanted to achieve your lifelong goal but you can’t or you are psyching yourself out of it? Everyone has obstacles in their life, it just depends on how they handle the obstacle. Perseverance is one way to handle obstacles, just like Jessica. Authors use theme to convey a message to their audience. In the novel, The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Drannen, the author uses the character, symbolism, and conflict to convey the theme. The theme of the novel is don’t let hardships stop you from achieving your lifelong goal. The first literary device that Wendelin Van Drannen uses to convey the theme is character. The plot consists of the events in a story that build toward developing a theme. The main character in the novel, Jessica,