Malala Yousafzai, the girl who fought for schools for girls survived a major injury from people who disagreed. The now 23-year old is still fighting for women’s rights. “Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don’t think power is in the hands of the woman, who takes care of everyone all day long and gives birth to their children,” said Malala. Malala makes me think of Aventurine, the main character of The Dragon with the Chocolate Heart. Aventurine won’t give up on anything like Malala won’t give up on fighting for what’s right. The main character, Aventurine, from The Dragon with the Chocolate Heart pushes through all the problems that come up in her life and tries to get through them so she can find who she truly is.

Aventurine finds solutions, so she can find herself. She pushes and finds solutions for every problem that comes up because Aventurine knows that if she doesn’t do something, it is not going to end very well. Aventurine knew what she had to do when the King came to the Chocolate House and the Lord Mayor’s workers told lies to the King about the Chocolate House. Aventurine stood up and told the truth about the Chocolate House. Aventurine stands up but adds more problems to the problem. On page 137 she tells the Lord Mayors’ workers that those are lies that they told about the chocolate house. “Those are lies.”Says it with a powerful tone in her voice. Like she is serious and won’t back down until they stop telling lies. She says. But the Lord Mayors’ workers just kept telling more lies. When Aventurine heard that the dragons were coming to find her she had to stop her family from burning down the town, she had to tell the king about her plan, otherwise, everything would be burned to the ground. She told the king she would climb to the top of a sign where the dragons would see her, she also said she needed his youngest daughter in order for this to work. After Aventurine pushed through these problems she found her strength and braveness. 

Aventurine pushes through all the problems to put herself together like a puzzle. At the end of each problem, Aventurine finds a little piece of herself, each part of her she finds herself she puts herself together. Like a puzzle. Aventurine pushes and pushes just so she can put herself together.  Like a big chocolate bar, Aventurine finds herself getting pieces of her getting taken away. On page 14 Aventurine feels the Chocolate going through her nose and not wanting it to leave. She imagines that she is floating away from her problems when she smells the Chocolate. She imagines the Chocolate coming to her and just smelling the sweet scent and all of her worries just float away. 

When Aventurine finds all the pieces of who she is, she puts them together to find herself. Aventurine puts herself together like a puzzle. She has to find all the pieces, and find where they all go. After she has put herself together, she looks at herself and puts them into her body to have that strength. To put a puzzle together, Aventurine does the same thing. The more problems Aventurine solves or may just add on to more of the problems to make them bigger, she always finds herself. 

Aventurine looks and looks for herself behind every corner. She thinks that she lost herself when she was turned human. And she might be right, she was a dragon, for and the next minute she was a human. Things might have been different for her. Aventurine always finds solutions to problems, she pushes through all the problems like she is pushing through a crowd, and once Aventurine finds all the pieces, she puts herself back together like a puzzle. Aventurine had mixed emotions throughout the book, confused when turned human, excited to hear about the chocolate house, and many more. Like the theme, when Aventurine pushes boundaries, they lead to consequences.