Flipping Fantastic: Themes, Values and Viewpoints

What are the messages that you got after reading this short story,"Flipping Fantastic"?

If you should look closely,these are the themes that comes to light.

• Learning to be self reliant-independence.
• The importance of being self-assured-self confidence
• Sense of responsibility - to take care of another that may need assistance
• Telling the truth-do not hide feelings-learn to be open,to share and to be supportive

So what about the values that we can discern from the story?

• One must plan one path in life and be brave to walk it
• One must be truthful to oneself and to loved ones
• One cannot be selfish at the expense of others' happiness
• One should learn to respect the wishes of others
• One must take note that different people have different interests

Interestingly the story is told from the first person viewpoint through the pages of three persons's diaries.