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River Runs Through It Theme
The theme of A River Runs Through It is acceptance because through the whole movie Norman and Paul are having to accept the choices they make and each other make. The topic is how to know when you should just accept what has happened and work through it. The three topics are then Paul and Norman went over the rapids and Paul took all the blame for it. The second one is Norman comes back from college and learns that Paul is a well-known newspaper journalist, and the last reason is that the end when Norman has to tell his parents that Paul was beat to death. The first reason is when the boys went over the rapids and Paul took the blame.
Paul believed since he was the youngest son that he needed to take blame for at that happened. It shows Norman
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