Theme is the pulse of the story and if you choose correctly you will feel compelled (in a good way) to complete your story. If your theme is not compelling to you, it will certainly not be compelling to your readers. So think very carefully, not just about your themes but about how you intend exploring them. EXAMPLES OF THEMES. You might like.
Read below our complete study guide on the short story “Araby” by James Joyce. Our guide covers Araby summary, introduction, characters, themes, and analysis. Araby is one of the fifteen short stories that with other stories make James Joyce’s collection Dubliner. James Joyce wrote the stories from1904 to 1904 but he published them in 1914.
The three main points that will show you how Lizabeth has planted marigolds will be mentioned throughout the next three paragraphs, they are, how the marigolds in this story have been used to symbolize happiness, how the marigold have been used to symbolize hope, and last but not least, how everyone some how has planted marigolds, just as Miss Lottie and Lizabeth have.
Many of us know Gore Vidal through his novels and essays so it was quite a find to get a copy of these seven short stories. He wrote them from 1948 to 1956-- the dates are given after each story-- and like his ground-breaking novel THE CITY AND THE PILLAR, published during the same period (1948), several of these stories are about controversial topics for that period and were well ahead of.
This short story, by Nadine Gordimer, overall, speaks on the deep-seethed racial tension that influenced the individuals in this story.In essence it is about a presumably white woman being mugged by an equally presumable black male (Gordimer is from South Africa and frequently wrote about racial tension).The tension in this story is so saturating that it even manages to conquer the language.
A theme is the general message or statement about a subject that all the elements of a story or a poem work together to develop. Without a unifying theme, a story contains only arbitrary events and characters. Theme functions as the understated but essential ingredient to make a story or poem meaningful. Every work of literature contains a.