1. The following excerpt is an example of what common literary theme? "He had done this thing to me and I had lived. That was all. I was still breathing. I heard his heart. I smelled his breath. The dark earth surrounding us smelled like what it was, moist dirt where worms and
animals lived their daily lives. I could have yelled for hours.
I knew he was going to kill me. I did not realize then that I was an animal already dying."
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
A. Good and Evil
B. Courage
C. Death
D. Love