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- From: branwen@cerebus.ccc.amdahl.com (Karen Williams)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Theme?
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- Date: 5 Nov 92 19:56:15 GMT
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- In article <92310.095916KVJLC@ASUACAD.BITNET> KVJLC@ASUACAD.BITNET (Jon L. Campbell) writes:
-
- > My problem with this, is that writing a story with a theme implies
- >that every story has a moral to be told.
-
- I think you're confusing "theme" with "moral," which aren't the same thing.
-
- >Dick meets Jane at the park, they fall in love and
- >through a series of events marry each other. Their chance encounter
- >in the park is not a moral passage in time, but characteristic of the
- >chaos that occasionally brings unlike events together. What is the
- >moral of a love story if the people involved are unknowingly pawns in
- >the chaotic scheme of the universe?
-
- So it sounds like your "Dick meets Jane" love story would have the
- theme "Love is a characteristic of the chaos that occasionally brings
- unlike events together, and the people involved are unknowingly pawns
- in the chaotic scheme of the universe."
-
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- Karen Williams
- branwen@cerebus.ras.amdahl.com
- "Don't whine. Warrior women speak in a husky whisper."
- -- Brat Pack #3
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