Theme

Whether it’s a reoccurring theme in our daily lives, in a TV show we are watching, or in a book we are reading; we see theme's everywhere. When I read the chapter on theme and realized that even in a little story that we all know, such as little red writing hood, we can see so many themes that can come out of it. The first version was a generic, typical, and basically the story that we are used of hearing. Then there was the second version of the story where the ending was different (the girl shot the wolf) and the moral was a one liner and very blunt. These stories here show how themes of stories can really change the mood of the story and what the reader gets out of the story. When I read the second version of the story I about fell out of my seat at the ending that the author wrote because I couldn't believe that the author wrote that kind of an ending. This ending puts such a different theme on the story which is such a big part of reading a piece of literature. When reading Lewis' 'Grief Observed' you don't sit and smile as you read it, the theme presents a saddened feel and at moments you feel like crying. Theme is something we never get away from. We have good days, bad days, in between days, and all around days. Its such a big part of our lives and such a big part of literature so we really have to understand it when/as we read the literature we read. When we understand the theme we better understand what the author is trying to convey and what they are trying to have us understand through the theme. If a story has no theme, is it still a story? Are we interested in stories without themes?...