Theme

I would have to say that one of the themes that keep popping up, is the theme of parent child relationship. It seems in all of these stories that all of the kids have a bad relationship with their parents. In "The life you save may be your own", at first you think that the old lady takes very good care of her daughter and protects her. It ends up though that she trusts some random guy with her daughter, and the daughter ends up getting ditched. In "Book of the Dead", the father throws out the sculpture that the daughter worked very hard on. The story "Rules of the Game" has a parent that seems to be more of a chess drill sergeant than a parent. The story "Teenage Wasteland" has parents who work so hard to try to get their son to succeed, but their son will just not cooperate.