Inkheart Themes

Inkheart is a book about books, so you can expect to see a lot of, well, books. In this book. If you know what we mean. Meggie, Mo, and Elinor all love books, so there's definitely some book-lovin'...

Family is pretty important in Inkheart, in part because a lot of the main characters are related. Meggie goes on an adventure with her dad, a.k.a. Mo, and her mom's aunt, a.k.a. Elinor. The fact th...

Maybe as one of the seven deadly sins, pride isn't something you want to endorse, but a lot of the characters in Inkheart engage in it pretty frequently. From Fenoglio's pride over his literary cre...

Home is where the heart is—usually, anyway. It's a little more complicated in Inkheart, though. If the characters in this book had to update their Facebook information about their homes, they wou...

Liar, liar, pants on fire—if this phrase were true, there'd be a lot of people's pants spontaneously bursting into flames in Inkheart. We're thinking that a support group for compulsive liars mig...

The supernatural manifests in Inkheart in both obvious and not-so-obvious ways. Obvious: It's possible to read people and things into and out of books.Not-so-obvious: All the references to supersti...

They say an elephant never forgets—but Dustfinger, though no elephant, takes holding tight to memories to a whole new level. The characters in Inkheart are all driven by their memories of the pas...

Power comes in many shapes and sizes in Inkheart. Some power is scary and showy, like the power Capricorn exhibits over his men and the surrounding region; Mo's power to read people into or out of...