I'm trying to find the theme of the book I'm reading, but I don't really know what exactly is a theme, could anyone give me an idea of what a "theme" of a story is?
-Is the theme = What is the author trying to teach us? Or is it the central message of the story? Thanks
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The theme of the story is the central message and what the author wants you to know.
a theme is the central topic a text treats. Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept is what readers "think the work is about" and its thematic statement being "what the work says about the subject".