Theme:Anger and Annoyance

Four slaves have escaped from my master's plantation. Two grown men and two little girls. One girl has a hunched back. We have found the two men that have escaped but the two girls slipped away. We caught the men in a grove of trees near a barn in the rushing water. We persumed that the girls were in the barn but they escaped under our noses! We even had the bloodhounds!!!

Theme: Cruelty to slaves.

This theme fits this story because of how I treat the slaves. If the slaves don't do as I say then I whip them to teach them a lesson. The slaves don't deserve freedom or any rights. This theme would not be in this book without me. The other slave owners don't treat the slaves as cruelly. If the slaves don't get any cruelty then they won't always obey their master, then they will try to become free like the boy with Mr.Fox. that is why cruelty to slaves is an important theme.