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Patience Pays Off Theme

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A similar theme that can be found in both texts can be, "Patience pays off." In the passage, “Boy’s Life,” it is about an impatient boy who can’t wait for school to end, and the first day of summer to begin. The young boy grows more and more impatient because his teacher wants to keep the students as long as possible. Towards the end of the story, he starts to understand why his teacher is holding on to them as long as she can. Maybe she doesn’t have anyone to go home to. Maybe outside of school she is just lonely. The boy grows more patient since he understands his teacher and soon it pays off.
I feel that the theme “Patience pays off applies to this story. For example, the passage "Boy's Life" says, "The world was out there, waiting beyond

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