The theme of the story, If You Come Softly, is best known as true love has no color. In this story, Jeremiah who is African American and Ellie who is Jewish began to like each other.
Many people throughout the story didn't approve the fact that they were dating because it's adnormal to see a white girl with a black guy. "No one at Percy said anything. It was strange the way the students seemed to turn away from it, from him and Ellie holding hands on the Percy stairs. From his arm around Ellie's shoulder as they walked through the halls. Turn away from them kissing outside their classrooms. Sometimes Miah imagined their turning away in slow motion-the eyes cast downward, the heads moving slowly above the collars of Percy uniforms. yeah, they looked, and once, Miah had caught two black girls staring at him and Ellie and whispering. When he looked up, the girls turned away. They didn't seem angry or suprised or hurt. Nothing like that. Just two girls talking-saying something about him and Ellie, then getting caught. And slowly, turning away." (If You Come Softly, page 123, paragraph 1-2)
Although the people they were surrounded by was unsupportive, their love for each other made all the problems go away. They didn't care who saw, they just wanted to be together. As they liked each other for WHO they were, people looked at them for how they LOOKED.
After I read this book, this is what I got from the book. The color of the skin, the culture, or the gender should not ever get into the way of love. Love is determined by the feeling the person has for another.
By: Joseph Ebiotu (edited by Michelle xia)
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