Hiding (initial theme, underlies other themes)
Citizenship (redefined as a result of hiding)
Bravery / boldness (overarching theme, umbrella theme that includes the other themes) (bravery represents emerging from hiding, or the opposite of hiding)
Answer:
What can Vargas’ informative and brave memoir provide its readers?
Through the guidance that he gives in his memoir Vargas
becomes a bold, uplifting voice for unrepresented,
undocumented immigrants. By also sharing his journey of
how hiding took a serious toll on him, but how it [hiding]
ultimately led to him to discover that being a citizen does not
involve having the proper legal documents, Vargas gets us
to think long and hard about our immigration system.
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