Knowing the Truth

The second word the book is “truth.” The first word is “the.” In the first two pages, the word “truth” is mentioned four times. In this context, truth is interchangeable with the word “fact”, and “fact” is repeated five times. The words “know (knew, knowing)” appears ten times. In addition, there are the words, “realize”, “found out”, “trust”. The book starts out with the very explicit theme of knowing the truth.

Heidi wants to know what “soof” means. She wants to know where she comes from, how she got her name, who her grandparents are, who her father is. She is happy with the life she has but she feels that it is her right to know where she comes from.

The beginning of the book foreshadows that she may be misguided in sureness that the truth is out there for her to know...