Our fist impressions on the book Fish In A Tree

        In the book Fish In A Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt the main character Ally faces challenges in school as she is underestimating herself of her abilities to work she thinks that she's dumb and that you can't cure dumb. After reading the first few chapters we think the theme is to not let people control your mind to make you think a certain way for example because of the common laughter about ally and her classmates saying that she is dumb Ally would believe that she is dumb and is unable to work especially when a new teacher Mrs. Halls wants to know how Ally describes herself Ally refuses to do the full paper because she doesn't like to show her emotions and when Mrs. Halls sends Ally to the office that is when she does agree to do the paper.