Before leaving, Margaret gives Lily, a budding writer, the key to the Dillon summer place, so she can escape her sometimes bossy grandmother and work on her stories in its wonderful attic room. Her dad has taken a job on a bomber-plane assembly line there. Unfortunately, when Lily arrives in Rockaway she promptly learns that her longtime summer friend, Margaret Dillon, is moving away to Michigan, at least for the time being.
(Her mother died from a heart condition when Lily was an infant.) Lily’s father, “Poppy,” an engineer, is to join them for weekends. Giff’s 1997 Newbery Honor Book opens in June 1944 with ten-year-old Lily Mollahan and her grandmother packing for their annual summer stay at Rockaway Beach, a vast five-mile stretch on the Rockaway peninsula in the borough of Queens, New York. Lily starts learning that lies can hurt others. When they get over their initial distrust of each other they soon find common ground in their fears and wishes. Lily Mollahan gets introduced to a Hungarian refugee named Albert. The war is ruining everything in her life. Every year Grams, Lily, and Poppy head to their summer house in Rockaway but this year her best friend has to go to Detroit and her father goes overseas to war. This is a girl with abandonment issues, mix that with a dead mother, a father willingly going to Europe, WWII and we get to the source of her personality. While I didn't care for her attitude I took a moment to understand her. Lily Mollahan was a liar, a thief and a disrespectful little girl throughout the novel. She could see herself reaching the troop ship, climbing aboard, and sailing to Europe to find Poppy. The theme of grief is present a great deal in many ways: losing family, missing people, the toll of war, and fear of losing loved ones.And then, just for a moment, it almost seemed possible. Lily and Albert have both experienced grief, and this makes them closer. The love and bond of family is consistent throughout the novel. Lily and Albert both have lost family members, but continue to have a strong family value. She learns that he is a true friend and their friendship evolves and grows throughout the story. When Lily first meets Albert, she thinks he’s strange and does not want to get to know him. Lily has two close friends in the novel, Margaret and Albert. Lily learns that her big lies can get her in trouble, and even be dangerous to herself and others. This constantly worries her, and she wonders why she lies. Throughout the book, Lily finds herself telling lies and getting lost in the lies that she has told. For this activity, students will create a storyboard that identifies and illustrates the themes in Lily’s Crossing.Įxamples of Themes in Lily’s Crossing Honesty Many stories have more than one important theme. A theme is a central idea, subject, or message in a story.
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