Refer to Inside Out and Back Again for a complete version of this text. In the story, Hà decides to tell her mother about things she has done in the past that she feels bad about Which theme is developed by this detail from the text? It is safer to suffer in silence than to confess and risk punishment.

People's prior actions define who they are in the present

Some things are better left unsaid than shared with family.

There is comfort in taking responsibility for one's own actions.