Course 10—Lecture

Theme—what it's all about

The elements of fiction—plot, characters, setting and symbols—work together to form the central ideas of a story.

Theme is a generalized statement about a story —and must be supported by the text. But be careful—theme is not . . .

• the story's moral
• a plot summary
• the story's subject

Let's look at what themes are not by revisiting a few previous LitCourse stories