It might seem like “Fly Away Home” and “Jake and Lily” are very different kinds of stories. “Fly Away Home” is a short story and “Jake and Lily” is a chapter book. If you look a little closer, you could see that both stories actually have a similar theme. In both stories, the authors teach us to never give up and keep trying.
In the short story “Fly Away Home”, the theme is never giving up. In the beginning, the main character, Andrew, shows hard work and never giving up by earning money for him and his father. In the middle, his dad tells him that he is going to go to school. This also shows how the theme is never giving up. In the end, the bird that was stuck in the airport
