The themes of “Skellig” is life, death, freedom, pain, despair, hope and for the last, `light and dark. For all of the themes they both have the other side of their meaning so it will be easer to say two sided. It means that any thing will have two sides. Skellig is one; baby will be the other side or Michel is one; Mina will be the other and Dr death is one; Dr MacNabola will be the other.
There is the other side of any character in the “Skellig”. First you feel sad, then suddenly some thing mysterious arrived or Michel was at Mina’s house but soon he find out that his baby sister is going to have a surgery. This make me think two things about that quote that it said “ We often think if him, watching us from Heaven” because this quote come when Michel find out that Mina’s dad was gone and now he was thinning that this might come to the baby. I was very shocked that I think the baby was going to die. In “Skellig there is many part that I get shocked The 27 and the 53 that was a Chinese food take out or the part that Mina found that Skellig was on Austerities that make your body not fixable or so. The other part that was very shocking to In “Skellig” the mood change very fast that sometimes I can’t realize what’s happing. At the end, this will get slower but it is still fast if I compared to other. In the end it is a happy ending but there is many mysteries at this book that will take at least a chapter to salve the mysteries. I think the reason that there was many parts that it was not clear is because David Almond want us to find out by our imagination what was the hidden information.
There is one very big question that it is not explained. It is “Why does Mina does not goes to school and Michel does go to school? I think this is because David Almond hates school very much his self because maybe he has a bad experience that happened at school or he was poor and he could not go to school. Any way, there must be something that happened about school or there wouldn’t be so much about hating school.
The only reason that they put in Michel that goes to school is because he needs to have a variety of people to make magical reality. A main character needs to be a basic person that doesn’t have anything spatial but one thing. For “Skellig”, that is that he has a sick baby sister.
There can be more and more themes of “Skellig “ that is a two-sided meaning and it will take a lot of time to find out them all. The part that this book is different with the other book is that it ends with many mysteries that is not solve in the story. This is something that David Almond had left for us to create the missing part of the book, “Skellig” to make it to a great story.