This Is How You Grow

The moral of the argument is that themes are not concrete pavements or cement sidewalks, they are the roads not traveled by and twisting trails in the back of the woods, all different and unique to themselves.  Digging deep to find what an author is trying to say is part of a learning process, and breaking the cycle of cliches is just one way to expand in this process.  Too often we get quarantined into simplistic ideas that we have seen in other texts, but by looking deeper into the text, we can find more insightful messages that  the author sends. By creating more insightful responses, we grow as a person, a student, and as a writer.