ZombieNinjaPirates;+Lessons+Learned

One theme in "American History" is that you cannot always get what you want. Elena learned this through a couple different events. At the begining Elena talked about how she wished she could jump the rope like the "black girls" (pg.203), but she can't. So she didn't get what she wanted. Another way she learned that she cannot always get what she wants was toward the end of the story. She wanted to study with Eugene, but when she went over there Eugene's Mom told her she couldn't and to go home. She didn't get what she wanted that time either.