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  1. Unit two project. I chose to try to explain that and be persuasive about the fact that
  2. themes kind of like we can use the same
  3. theme and it looks different amongst all genres.
  4. Alright, so before we get started,
  5. I think it's important to clarify what the theme is and then what
  6. genre is because some people often get those entangled into the same thing
  7. when they are really not the same thing.
  8. So a theme
  9. um the google definition is the subject of talk, a piece of writing,
  10. a person's thoughts, essentially just your main topic of your story
  11. and then an idea that reoccurs in or pervades work of art literature.
  12. So
  13. it's essentially just kind of
  14. what they're doing, what they're trying to prove inside their story.
  15. So to find the theme, you can list some like main topics of the text,
  16. it can be like a word, a phrase.
  17. So if you're reading something and it has like
  18. they are going to discover something they've never seen, they go travel,
  19. then they find what they have been looking for
  20. and they're like satisfied.
  21. So with all of those,
  22. it kind of leads to more that your theme is going to be maybe discovery.
  23. So that's just an example and then some different themes among literature,
  24. our death, compassion, perseverance, hard work, family, love.
  25. And then for genre,
  26. the google definition is a category of composition
  27. as in music or literature characterized by similarities,
  28. informed style or subject matter.
  29. It's essentially your overall um
  30. category
  31. four.
  32. Alright, so it's going to be your like, overall category of your story
  33. um like you can pick stories and put
  34. them in different categories like different genres.
  35. So if you're reading through the story again,
  36. you kind of want to use context clues if there's like various
  37. dragons um magic things that we rarely wouldn't have in our world.
  38. It's like super mystical stuff
  39. that's probably gonna tie it more too like a nonfiction story
  40. and then things where you could put yourself
  41. in their exact shoes like same feelings,
  42. idealistic scenarios like real world things
  43. that's probably gonna tie more into like
  44. um nonfiction.
  45. And so some genre examples are going to be history fiction, nonfiction, novel,
  46. romance.
  47. Um. Yeah
  48. and so for my thesis I decided if we all decided to write an
  49. essay following the same theme but chose a different genre or way to present,
  50. it could change the way the theme is portrayed.
  51. So like if you take death
  52. and you're you know for sure your theme is going to be death.
  53. If you write it in a fiction it's gonna look one way
  54. and then if you write it in nonfiction it's gonna look another
  55. like genres change what your theme looks like.
  56. But your theme could over all be the same.
  57. It's just based on the evidence,
  58. explanations and details used throughout your story.
  59. So for some examples of themes that look different in
  60. genres is death is presented in fiction and nonfiction.
  61. And so in fiction, death looks more like a character or persona.
  62. Somebody's gonna embody death.
  63. Usually like gods of the underworld or death that has the cloak in the south,
  64. there's going to be somebody or a person or present that's gonna more embody death.
  65. Where as in nonfiction, death is more something written about how the person,
  66. how the person died,
  67. what they did to die.
  68. The people,
  69. what the people around them are going through the feelings tied to death,
  70. like grieving anger, sadness.
  71. The more real world stuff is where nonfiction and
  72. then fiction makes it look almost like a persona.
  73. They're both death but it's just different genres.
  74. And then another example
  75. is
  76. love
  77. that's presented in a drama versus comedy. So love the theme.
  78. If you put love into the genre of a drama, it usually is more complex, confusing,
  79. intricate, it's kind of that side of love.
  80. Usually there's going to be an obstacle or something
  81. stopping the two people from being in love,
  82. whether it's their forbidden for whatever reason, religion stops them.
  83. Family stops them.
  84. Um Other people involved stops them,
  85. there's going to be an obstacle usually that stops them
  86. and then love is in the comedy, the genre is more lighthearted.
  87. Um funny, not as heavy weight as like a drama would be.
  88. They take humorous plotlines from different romantic ideas.
  89. Okay,
  90. and then some stories that shared the same theme just kind of dabbled
  91. into different genres were a story by William Bradford and robert Frost.
  92. So a road not taken by Frost end of Plantation by Bradford share this theme,
  93. the same theme of Discovery,
  94. Bradford explains in his writing that they're discovering more of a new world
  95. and frustrating, he talks about the different paths he's going to take
  96. and he discovers his own personal identity.
  97. They both share a theme,
  98. they're both traveling somewhere and they're both
  99. making decision that's going to lead to
  100. an overall satisfaction in the end.
  101. And then some differences are in Bradford's story.
  102. Um he comes into contact with indians who
  103. um follow them,
  104. take them out of their way of their travels and they
  105. but they do eventually find like fresh water is good land
  106. and so they're satisfied with their discovery and what they discovered.
  107. But Frost
  108. ties his more to like the personal aspect, whether it's like
  109. instead of something that you're going to go out and do, he chose a path,
  110. he chose the one that is less traveled and it led him to more personal discoveries.
  111. So there's some really big differences due to how they
  112. were written and the genres they were written in.
  113. But they're both overall themes are Discovery.
  114. And then another
  115. two stories that share a theme is tim O'brien's story and john Steinbeck's story,
  116. an ambush by tim o'brien and symptoms by john Steinbeck.
  117. They both have similar themes within the war and what happens
  118. with your feelings within the warm memories within the war,
  119. but they use different genres to go about writing these similar themes,
  120. but they both stay in the same kind of theme and like what those feelings do to you,
  121. what they don't do to you.
  122. But they convey like a very different contrasting messages due to
  123. the way they were written in the genres they've fallen,
  124. so ambushed by tim O'brien is essentially about how the soldiers carry all their
  125. guilt and all the weight they have from what they did in the war,
  126. and those memories still deeply affect them.
  127. So it's almost like a PTSD
  128. And then in john Steinbeck's story,
  129. he talks more about how soldiers block out that
  130. because it was just so traumatizing to them.
  131. So instead of the PTSD they're really dealing with just
  132. blocking everything out and because they were so traumatized,
  133. they both had dealt with war, but they were just written so differently.
  134. And so in conclusion, a theme can be a variety of things,
  135. but any theme you choose to look at
  136. can look different based on how you write it. What genre you put it in
  137. genre is like your category of the story.
  138. And while theme is going to fall into any genre, theme is like your overall main idea,
  139. okay