This connects with the theme because later on, she learned to respect her culture. In later parts of the text, she uses this to help her survive in the towers. This implies that Alia found peace when she prayed to her god, so she respected her culture. For example, the author states that “Allahu Akbar….Peace seems to flow into me…” (Mills 13). One way the theme is expressed is by showing how Alia felt about praying. This is the theme because both Alia and Jesse don’t respect cultures in general, including theirs and others. Jesse and Travis have their own troubles as well, but as characters their function is to have their misconceptions explained to them and then be redeemed-Travis through heroic death and Jesse through repentance and romance-making this ultimately a timely plea for reconciliation suited to teens whose entire lives have unfolded in the lingering aftermath of 9/11.The theme of, All we have left, by Wendy mills is that we should all recognize and respect our culture. Both plots involve explorations of complicated it is for Muslim teens to figure out who they want to be under conflicting religious and cultural expectations. Jesse’s narration chronicles her brush with vandalism and later relationship with a Muslim boy, which forces an air-clearing confrontation between the members of her dysfunctional family. Alia’s story is a minute-by-minute account of how she and Travis meet up in the north tower and attempt to escape in the chaos as the 101 minutes between the hit and the collapse unfold, readers learn why Travis was in the tower in the first place, a mystery that has plagued Jesse’s family and that Jesse ultimately solves. Jesse, the 2016 narrator, has walked on eggshells since she was a toddler, not wanting to trip the delicate balance of her mother’s tears and her father’s rage that have engulfed her family since her brother Travis was killed in the attack. Alia is a Muslim girl arguing with her parents, which ultimately leads her to the North Tower to talk to her father on that fateful morning in 2001. The two sixteen-year-old narrators of this book are separated by the fifteen years between 9/11 and the present day.
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