One theme found in the story "Hanging Fire" is being along/ isolation. It talks about a fourteen year girl who is having teenage issues about herself and fears that she going to die at any moment, maybe because its due her social issues. Her state of mind is more about worrying about not growing up because she has braces, dry skin and the boy who she can't live without still sucks his thumb. It more internal problems with herself as she struggles to hold on to herself by second guessing or worried about what others think. Then her "mamma's in the bedroom with the door closed", it could symbolize she is keeping her feelings to herself and not telling her mother or she is keeping secrets from her mother that she doesn't want her to know or maybe its just could be her mother keeping to herself and not really being there for her kids.
Then the author Audre Lorde, writes how a teenager life is hard and it can be a struggle because you can be alone/ isolated from others or just becoming more of an outcast. The character has this feeling of being depress and sad because she feels alone, then in the story she is going to a party and had to learn how to dance. So she is not alone but more afraid that she going to make a mistake and get made fun of and low her confidence level.
Everything you write is true, but try to be more specific. For example, if you want to talk about the symbol of the door being closed, decide what exactly you think it means, and explain why. You don't have to discuss all the possibilities. Part of an analysis is making an argument and explaining why you think as you do.
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