Explain one of the main themes that emerged throughout the book.

 

A theme that emerged throughout the book that I found important was you don't know how much you care about someone until their gone. Towards the end of the book, Nick starts paying less and less attention to his best friend Jamie. Nick didn't know how much he really cared     about Jamie until he thought he would loose him forever.  "All he felt was guilt. He'd made Jamie mad; that's why he hadn't braked at the intersection. Nick hated himself"'. Nick felt really bad for yelling at Jamie. Now hat he thought he would never see him again, he realized how mean he had been. Nick felt like a horrible friend and a horrible person. You shouldn't be mean to your friends when their just trying to help you, because you never know if that will be the last thing you say to them.