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Hi guys, this is a pallet presentation made by Keiran and I, as you see, our topic is theme. To start us off, I'm going to ask you all this question...
What is a theme?
A theme is the main idea of the story, the lesson the author is trying to teach us.
Let's say, for example, "Malala". The theme of that book would probably be equality ( between women and men).

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We need a theme because it gives a story a purpose. All stories have a theme, it is one of the 5 conventions of a story. It makes the reader want to read a story because there is something for the reader to understand about this story. If you don’t have a theme, the story will be very shallow and meaningless.

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How do you figure out a theme of a story? Good question! To determine a theme, you will have to read through the story , and then understand what the story is trying to teach you. For example, let’s use the book “Malala”again. Malala kept on mentioning how much she desires to go back to school, raising awareness about how important it is for girls to do to school with his dad, being interviewed, getting shot, etc. It is all around one main idea, so this information in this story apparently made it kind of clear that the main theme would probably be “equality “ or something like that. Remember, there is no necessary right or wrong answers, and that a story can have many themes.

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looking at the title( gives the readers a basic idea of what the story might be about)

reading the blurb( a very customized summary of the story)

reading the story( being a supportive source to help determine a theme)

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As the theme of The Breadwinner is not objective, we have to speculate about what it’s main idea is. As The Breadwinner is about Parvana and her family surviving in Kabul without a Male escort and Males were more valued than women, I would suggest the Theme be along the lines of, Survival, Cooperation and Equality

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Events that impact the theme, usually has something to do with the main character. For example in page 119 the stadium was a place where people got executed. It affected the theme by revealing what really happens n this situation, and making it more scary or desperate

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If I told you a story and it was taking place in a haunted house, you would most likely think it was a horror story. These cliches of storytelling often give away some idea of what the theme is. For example, in the breadwinner the story takes place in Kabul, once a great city, now full of people on the edge of life. Most of you would think survival, cooperation or some other theme related to that. This is how the setting impacts the theme

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That is the end of our presentation. We hoped this gave you some more insight of themes.