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    The document discusses 4 themes found in a story: loneliness, loss, reflection, and love and family relationships. It analyzes how these themes are seen in the characters of Ms. Florence Gates and Esmie Grant. Both characters feel loneliness due to losing family and friends. They bond over their shared loneliness. Both have also experienced loss, with Florence losing her parents and sister, and Esmie losing her parents in a fire. Reflection is seen mainly in Florence as she has flashbacks to happy memories with her family, while Esmie reflects on her parents' tragic death. Love and family relationships is a key theme, as Florence frequently thinks fondly of time with her family and would like to see

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    The document discusses 4 themes found in a story: loneliness, loss, reflection, and love and family relationships. It analyzes how these themes are seen in the characters of Ms. Florence Gates and Esmie Grant. Both characters feel loneliness due to losing family and friends. They bond over their shared loneliness. Both have also experienced loss, with Florence losing her parents and sister, and Esmie losing her parents in a fire. Reflection is seen mainly in Florence as she has flashbacks to happy memories with her family, while Esmie reflects on her parents' tragic death. Love and family relationships is a key theme, as Florence frequently thinks fondly of time with her family and would like to see

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    The document discusses 4 themes found in a story: loneliness, loss, reflection, and love and family relationships. It analyzes how these themes are seen in the characters of Ms. Florence Gates and Esmie Grant. Both characters feel loneliness due to losing family and friends. They bond over their shared loneliness. Both have also experienced loss, with Florence losing her parents and sister, and Esmie losing her parents in a fire. Reflection is seen mainly in Florence as she has flashbacks to happy memories with her family, while Esmie reflects on her parents' tragic death. Love and family relationships is a key theme, as Florence frequently thinks fondly of time with her family and would like to see

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    Mint Tea

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    The document discusses 4 themes found in a story: loneliness, loss, reflection, and love and family relationships. It analyzes how these themes are seen in the characters of Ms. Florence Gates and Esmie Grant. Both characters feel loneliness due to losing family and friends. They bond over their shared loneliness. Both have also experienced loss, with Florence losing her parents and sister, and Esmie losing her parents in a fire. Reflection is seen mainly in Florence as she has flashbacks to happy memories with her family, while Esmie reflects on her parents' tragic death. Love and family relationships is a key theme, as Florence frequently thinks fondly of time with her family and would like to see

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    Mint Tea

    Themes
    Our topic is themes. We have found 4 themes in this story.
    LONELINESS
    This is seen with both Ms Florence Gates and Esmie Grant.
    Ms Florence Gates - Her family members (sister, father and mother) have passed, as well as her
    friends. She expresses her loneliness in where she states that she has lived too long and that she
    needs to move on to the other side. This shows that miss Grant no longer wants to be alive and feel
    the pain of being alone.
    Esmie Grant - Esmie's parents are said to have passed away in a fire. This made her an orphan and
    she was placed into foster care. She experienced another sensation of loneliness when her best
    friend,Juliet, at the orphanage, was taken to live with her aunt.
    Both of these character are able to empathize with each other and bond on their loneliness. Now
    they are less lonely since they have each other. This is seen when Esmie is frightened about loosing
    Miss Grant. They are not related but she is scared of loosing her.
    Loneliness
    Loss
    Loss
    This is seen, similarly to loneliness, in both Esmie Grant and Ms Florence Gates

    Both Esmie and Florence have lost people they were close to. With Florence, it is her mother, father
    and Annie and with Esmie, it is her mother and father. There is no sense of reconciliation between
    them when it comes to feelings of loss.

    Esmie- She can remember her parents dying in the fire. Although she doesn’t recall what happened
    to them, the event affected her deeply. She was scarred by the incident which now makes her afraid
    to lose people that she has become close to. Florence and Juliet can serve as examples. Esmie does
    not wish to lose the connection she has between the people she has come close to which is also the
    reason she decided to make Florence the mint tea.`

    Florence- Florence, who has limited memories, can remember some of the good times she spent
    with her family even though it has been a long time since they died.

    REFLECTION
    This is mainly seen with Ms Gates, but also with Esmie.
    Ms gates constantly has reflections or flashbacks about her parents and sister. She speaks on how
    her mother taught her how to sing and play piano and her father and sister going to concerts with
    her.

    While Esmie has recurring reflections of her parents' tragic accident.

    Reflection
    Love and Family Relationships
    Love and Family
    Relationships
    Love and Family Relationships is one of the main themes in the story. This is seen where Ms Gates
    constantly talks and thinks about her family. The memories that she has of her family are happy
    ones. She loves her family so much, that she wouldn't mind dying to see them again in Heaven
    (she's religious).

    Esmie doesn't have any known living relatives. However, her parents love was shown when they
    saved her from a fire, killing themselves in the process.

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