Based on the passage below, analyze how the passage connects to a key theme in the wider text. In other words, how is the theme you see being addressed in this specific passage representative of a theme that is being explored in the whole story?
“She hustled them into the canalboat and they floated up the canal under the evening stars, Tom lying on his back, his eyes closed; asleep or not, there was no telling. The old man looked at him steadily, wondering. Who is this, he thought, in need of love as much as we? Who is he and what is he that, out of loneliness, he comes into the alien camp and assumes the voice and face of memory and stands among us, accepted and happy at last? From what mountain, what cave, what small race of people remaining on this world when the rockets came from Earth? The old man shook his head. There was no way to know. This, to all purposes, was Tom” (Bradbury: “September 2005: The Martian” – page 167-168).
