Clue #3

What is a literary theme?
The theme of a story is the universal idea about human nature that the the writer wants to tell us. It gives you a view of what the author agrees about life. Many subjects used for a theme would be topics like love. Many people may have different insights about love, and the theme of the story about love would be just the authors view of love.


Examples
1. Love is like a flower, a flower blooms for a while and then withers.
It gives us an idea that love is temporary
2.Imagination makes a person dangerous
I heard it in a movie, doesn't remember the movie thought. The unlimited imagination makes people dangerous.
3. Every story has an ending.

3.In your opinion, what is the theme of God's plan for this world?
I think that God had a theme for making this world because he loves us. He all made us for a purpose, and I'm sure that he did for the world. In the Bible, it talks about how we should love many times, so its about our love to God. So that's why he sacrificed Jesus for us, and why he made the world.


1.What is the theme of your life, as you see it right now?
I think the theme of my life is currently, you choose how you want to live your life. I think that I am living in a very busy life. I do not have a lot of extra time to do things just for comfort. After school, I have to either go to volleyball practice, or practice basketball by myself, or study in the library. I have massive loads of homework. Travel for volleyball games. But I believe that all of these are going to pay back. For example, while I do homework and volleyball, it makes me spend a big portion of my time. However, if I didn't want to do my homework or sports, I don't need to do it. The things I do get for doing these activities are: I get to travel around with the team to get more experience, become more athletic and fit, make new friends and it will helps me with college. I'm doing all this hard work because I know that it is all going to help me and I enjoy to do it. Your life isn't chosen by anyone, its made just the way you wanted it to be.





1.How can you figure out a theme in a short story?
When you want to find out the theme of the story, you can just keep reading until you find some meaning in it, but there is a process for it. First, you look at the title to find a theme, it gives you basic idea of whats going to happen. The shot film "Bunny" gave us an idea its going to be something about a bunny, and the main character is a bunny. Second, looks for the main conflict and character, what is the internal and external conflicts that they face, you can find what the character faces. Third, you looks at the climax, and what it solves in the story. Finally the resolution and how the story ends, usually as the story ties up, it gives an idea of what the story was about.



2.What is the theme of "The Utterly Perfect Murder" and how does this theme relate to your own life.

I think the theme of the "The Utterly Perfect Murder" is a bad relationship is still a relationship. Doug Spaulding is this small guy who was always picked by Ralph Underhill. Ralph Underhill made fun of him. He made unfairs deals, he joked around with him, and he felt like he didn't really care about him as much as Doug cared about him. Doug wanted revenge, so he went looking for after like 40 years. Even though its a bad relationship, he still remembers him. You can still hate him, but if you still remember after fourty years, I think that Ralph Underhill is a important part of his life. Also for Ralph, he still remembers him after thrity years. I don't remember 90% of the people that I met in my elementary school because they werent really special to me. However for the people who felt really special to me, good or bad, I remember them very clearly.

3.How is a moral of a story different from a theme?

The moral of a story is like a life lesson that the story wants to tell you. The theme is the universal idea that the author has about human nature. You can think of the difference of the two devices as theme is a little broad then morals. Morals are usually lessons that usually everyone could agree about. For example, respect your parents. It is a moral, because is talking about how we should act and it is a lesson, and everyone would usually agree with morals. In my opinon, a theme is a point of view how you see a topic. For instance, when you talk about love, many people have different thoughts about love. Love is sad, love is short but life is long. It is usualy more arguable then a moral.

4.Read John 3:16.Is this a theme statement of God's story.How does this relate to the truth you might find in literature.

Yes, because its explaining that he loved us so much that he sacrificed Jesus for us. It's talking about how much he loves us. For everyone who believes in him will have eternal life. I think there is some relations between the verses theme and literature, or even life.For example, I remeber reading the Harry Potter. In the last book, there was a part where Harry had to sacrifice himself for others, he would need bravery for it, but since he loves everyone so much, he sacrificed him self. As Harry sacrificed himself, he did it because he needed to do it to make other people live. If he didn't love the people there, he wouldn't of have sacrificed himself. I'm not really sure, but there were many books that had similar moments.