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Analysis of themes of the book
Critics have noted numerous themes in The Birthgrave, particularly the theme of power. Within the different societies the narrator encounters, the image of a healer recurs. The narrator takes on the role of the healer in these societies and then abuses her ranking and her use of power to control the societies .While the narrator travels through the different societies, gender issues affect the narrator while she stays in these societies.The narrator also struggles with self discovery and while reading the book the reader sees how the narrator struggles to find herself and where she came from. Throughout the novel, the narrator struggles to find out who she was and how her race became extinct.The Birthgrave features a “vigorous heroine, warrior, sorceress…” who eventually finds herself as she travels on her quests.