Luna Themes

A whole lot of the action in Luna happens at the homestead, which isn't quite as safe as you'd think. Luna has to go by Liam all the time when she's around her parents, and Regan also has to keep u...

Sometimes things get a little dicey between Luna and Regan in Luna. Though the sisters are awfully close and share everything, Luna sometimes gets jealous—after all, Regan has what she wants more...

Talk about sitting on a heap of lies—in Luna, the titular character can't show anyone who she really is, not even her dear old mom and dad. Instead she has to take on this double persona: by day...

Things are neither easy nor fun for the main character of Luna. It may seem like dressing up at night in frilly frocks and fun wigs is a blast, but inside Luna's pretty much dying. And Regan hurts...

We'll tell you one thing: it takes a whole lot of guts to do what Luna does. In Luna, Regan watches as her sibling goes through the gauntlet in order to live out her true self. When they go to the...

There's a part in Luna where Chris tells Regan that he has a gay uncle and that he totally understands that her brother is different. Regan appreciates the sentiment, but it's not quite the same be...

In Luna, both of the main characters are struggling to create identities for themselves. For Luna the struggle is to come out with her female identity and to stop hiding behind the disguise of Liam...

In Luna it's super hard for Luna to come out because she's facing resistance on all fronts—the kids at school think she's a freak, strangers recoil when they see her at the mall, and her very own...

In Luna, the two siblings have the added complication of growing up in a family where their dad really likes to conform to societal rules and expectations. And when we say conform, we mean the man...

Even though the titular character in Luna has always identified as female, she has to undergo a change to present as female to the world at large. A great deal of the story deals with this transfor...