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Example Theme:

What, if anything, is more important than survival?

OR (reworded as a statement)

There are some things that are more important than survival.

Prompt: In groups of 5, write down the literary elements in "Survivor Type" in list format; utilizing what you wrote, come up with a theme that stems from these elements

Literary Elements To Look For:

Relatable Literature

Protagonist & Narrator

Plot: sequence of events

Setting: time and place

Protagonist: main character

Narrator: person who tells the story

Narrative method: way the narrative is presented

Dialogue: what the characters say

Conflict: issue around which the story revolves

Mood: general atmosphere of a narrative

Symbolism: objects or actions that can be seen as a metaphor for something larger

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Theme: central idea /concept of a story

Subject:

Plot Summary

  • "A Modest Proposal": a satirical essay written in 1729 by Jonathan Swift that suggests that the impoverished Irish should solve their poverty and overpopulation issues by selling their children as food for the rich
  • "The Most Dangerous Game:" A jaguar hunter learns what it means to be prey when hunted by an aristocrat looking for a human challenge
  • "The Lottery": A small town holds a lottery each year to sacrifice one person (via town stoning) for the harvest: "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon"

Richard Pine is a round character because he has multiple facets to his personality, some likable and some despisable; his self-motivation perseveres against generational poverty, his narcissism causes him to become a drug pusher who only cares about getting ahead, and his will to survive allows him to make even the most excruciating sacrifices.

This subject of this story is a man's fight for survival (and subsequent loss of sanity) on a deserted island with only his surgeon skills, heroin, knives, and his will to survive.

Climax

Conflicts

  • A combination of shock trauma, starvation, heroin, and other factors causes Richard to become insane. After eating his earlobes, he begins to eat his prized possession: his surgical hand. Mood: Confidence that turns progressively manic
  • External: Richard is struggling to survive.
  • Internal: Richard has to find out how much he wants to survive and what he's willing to trade for survival.

Rising Action

  • Richard reveals in a diary (narrative method) that he is a surgeon who smuggled heroin through a cruise that sunk.
  • Richard writes that he will destroy the diary when he is found.
  • After days with no food, he kills birds and eats them raw to survive.
  • After trying to catch a plane's attention, he breaks his ankle and has to amputate, taking heroin to numb the pain of the surgery.
  • Richard eats his foot to avoid starvation.
  • No longer able to chase birds, Richard amputates his other foot and both legs to feed himself.

RESOLUTION

  • Because the diary was not destroyed, we have to assume Richard Pine died on the island.

Exposition & Setting

  • The narrator reveals that his name is Richard Pine and that he is stranded on a small island with knives and heroin, but no food.

Plot Diagram

Theme: Message About Life the Story Communicates

Survivor Type

There can be many themes, based on what an individual reader gets from the story. Your theme is valid as long as you can utilize literary elements to support it.

Influenced by Jacob Oakley

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