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Finding Theme in Complex Stories: Looking for Patterns in Multiple Conicts! Step 1: Conicts

Step 2: Theme Starters ! What issues or states of being do these conicts have in common?!

Step 3: 1st Draft Theme Statement! What does the protagonist learn about the theme starter from the conicts?

Step 4: Revising Your Theme Statement! Double check your work to make sure your theme statement...1) is precise and 2) addresses the storys resolution. Use the following prompts to help you revise your rst draft theme statement.!

! How? Why?! ! ! ! Under what circumstances?! ! ! ! So what?! !

* Re-read the last lines of the story!

Step 5: Final Theme Statement! Revise, if necessary, to make the theme statement more precise or to better account for the storys resolution.

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