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The title of the novel Ellen Foster is self explanatory. Ellen Foster was the main character in the book. It is a story about a child, Ellen, who has many experiences with deaths of members in her family. This causes her to move from house t ....

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... her every place. When she was bored this amused her. She even told Dora that it was a gift given to her by her “imaginary” boyfriend. Ellen kept the microscope hidden from other people. She didn’t want people to break it. Ellen kind of kept her life secretive from others just like she had kept the microscope. Two themes can be discussed in the novel Ellen Foster. The first theme mentioned is self-reliance. Throughout the whole novel Ellen had to rely on her self to make it through life. After her mother died she had to survive on her own with the threat of her alcoholic father always in her way. She had to survive at her grandm ...