In this short excerpt of Anna´s Secret Wish, the most common theme is the perspective of beauty compared and contasted between the main character, Anna, and the other characters, like her friend Olivia and her teacher, Mrs. Moreno, as well as her classmates and then her mother. This is why the correct answer is A for the first part. In fact, the narrator, which is not Anna, has a first glimpse of what beauty is to the main character when he/she has access to how Anna is feeling in regards to the difference in beauty between a drawing where color and lack of sameness reigns, vs her feelings of boredom when she sees the charcoal drawings of her classmates, the sameness of the landscape when she is at the bus and when she arrives at her neighborhood. Again, it is contrasted when she sees that like her, her mother also perceives beauty as splashes of color that contrast the sameness and bleakness of darker colors like white and black. But her teacher, classmates and even neighbors do not see things like her; they accept and deal well with the charcoal colors and drawings, while her friend Olivia does not want charcoal at all; she wants to deal with oils, which are stronger and brigther in color than charcoal. This also establishes the theme.
