Sriram's Final Post

The theme I see in this story would be "friendship can take you a long way." This is easily expressed in the story in many ways, for example. Only a true friend like Andres would give up himself in the escape of his friends to Florida. Some people would have just lied low like Juan and Raul and try not to be seen by the gunboat. Andres was obviously thinking of his friends before himself. I believe he would do such a thing to just anybody he saw. He did because he wanted them to escape freely without any problems, and not have to get deported back to Cuba. He took the hit for his friends in the situation. Another reason would be the fact that they all worked as a team to build the raft. The desire probably can from there longing to leave the island and to help there friends in the escape. I think one of them was only thinking of only escaping and not about his comrades in the escape too. I do believe that the theme would be "friendship can take you a long way."