Sharp Objects: Themes to start tracking in the book

I have just started the book Sharp Objects, which definitely seems to be a book of mystery. Well obviously it must be since the book is about a journalist who is asked to track down a story of two teen murders, in another place. This is all in desperation, because the main character who was asked to go on the trip was made because the competition between other newspaper businesses. I'm starting to track down themes that could have major effects on the book in general.

The first theme that i clearly notice is desperation, from the beginning of the book I could obviously tell that this book would have a lot of desperation involved in it. The tone was a very rushed and hurry tone because in the beginning of the book the main characters boss is talking to her about the competition that is going on between the other newspaper companies. So he makes her go on a trip to some unknown place and track a murder down to get the full story. It obviously is a very dangerous task to do especially if you have no protection. I know in real life journalists do thing like this, but it' with other people sometimes, yet it's still dangerous to do in real life. It just shows how far someone will go when they're desperate to do something. I hope this them becomes more apparent along the way,and shows the consequences of desperation when it gets out of control.

Another noticeable theme in the book is theme of mystery like associated with killing, it seems that whole book will have a scary and mysterious touch to it that will mostly be coming from the murder scene that the journalist is trying to investigate in the book. Which is pretty much obvious for any book to contain a mystery in murders. I will be tracking how the mystery in the book decides what the character will do defensively, since I think that it will be an act of defense when she is scared by the mystery going on the book. So far the character feels no regret or nervousness in going to some foreign place for a murder.Which is quite odd, I would be very scared to face a murder. I guess me as the reader forsees all of the tension that this myster seems to be building up which will all explode in the face of the main chrarcter in the climax to the end of the book.

In conclusion, these were the two main themes that I found in the book that seemed worth while tracking down for their relation to characters. I hope to see more interactions as the book goes on.