Themes to the Shining Mountain

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The theme of the story could be: Growing up, is the main theme. In the story, we follow Pangma-las journey to become a grown-up. In the text we see (p. 18, l. 5) that her father have great ambitions for her and that is a big part of growing up. It is wonderful to see a little ugly duckling who is insecure and scared of the world, growing up and becoming a beautiful, independent swan, who is ready to change the relationship between her and her father. It’s not only Pangma-la who is growing up during the story, her father also learns a very important lesson about parenthood and realises his daughter is perfect as she is, and that she doesn’t need to be like him. The father realises that his daughter has to find herself. Pangama-la has been lonely since she got born, when she was a little she got bullied for having strange name (p. 8 l. 2-3) of course loneliness is a theme. Another theme I the story is parenthood… When reading the text we understand that “the father role” is an important part of raising a child. In this fairy-tale the daughter is scared of disappointing her father, until one of the biggest moments of the fairy-tale (p. 22 l. 9-10) the father breaks down and cry. Therefore, expectations is one of the themes of the story. At the end we realise that love never ends and always will be a part of human
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