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The Great Gilly Hopkins The Great Gilly hopkins The Great Gilly Hopkins was an interesting novel with many themes, some were hidden and others were obvious. Katherine Paterson has a way of telling a story in a manner that is interesting to the reader yet has a very strong theme, life is what you make of it. Gilly made life hard for herself and never realized it until it was too late. Paterson also had a hidden theme of prejudice. Family was another main theme to this book. This story will help any child who is having difficulties with family or dealing with who they really are. In the beginning of this book Gilly is a selfish and immature little girl who hasn’t learned what life is all about. She has this attitude that she is invincible to pain and will not allow anyone to hurt her. She has it set in her mind that this new foster home will not work and she will do anything in her power to get to her mother. In the first chapter Gilly thinks to herself “Nobody wants to tangle with the great Galadriel Hopkins. I am too clever! and too hard to manage. . .Here I great, gilly, hopkins, family, life, children, very, trotter, make, way, story, paterson, novel, mother, about, theme, really, people, out, never, ms, harris, book, wrong, written, work, time, shows, randolph, prejudices, new, mr, made, hidden, herself, been