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Powder The theme in the story Powder is that you have to live life on the edge sometimes you can’t always be a goody, goody, but you cant always be living it on the spur of the moment and always taking risks. In Powder the boys father is very unreliable, financially unstable, likes spending his money like on expensive sport cars, and always going things on the spur of the moment. Like skiing on Christmas Eve when he probably knew he should have left to bring his son home. He also likes taking risks like when he called in the false report to get the sheriff watching the closed road to leave. Then he takes an even bigger risk when he drove down the closed snow covered road to bring his son home. On the other hand the boys mother is totally oppo