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1a. Literary theme is what the story’s subject is talking about.
1) You’ll ruin your life if you think like a frog in a well.
2) Showing how tiny causes can mean enormous outcomes.
3) Giving up the final hope that’s just around the corner.

1b. In order to figure out the theme in a story, there could be various ways. But what I think the best way is starting out with the title. The title is usually related to the text in a way, which can be ironic or literal. I think the title is the best choice to build a structure for starting out to figure out the theme of the story, because it sometimes summarizes the whole story in a word or a phrase. Then the next step is to read the story. The theme of the story usually doesn’t come to me by reading the text once. After reading the story few times to know exactly what’s happening, I concentrate on the first paragraph to look for the theme. This is the similar reason why I looked into the title. The first paragraph plays the similar role, but it gives more clues to what the theme is than the title has.

2a. The theme of “Utterly Perfect Murder” is how Doug’s plan of revenge basically became unworthy for him right before he was about to make his final step towards the payback. This kind of thing usually doesn’t happen to me often. But occasionally there are cases where I set up plans with effort, and the perfectly seemed plan turns out to be a vain by an event that I would’ve never expected.

2b. What I think is the theme of my life is like a whole process of learning. I bet at least few people will agree with me if they are a student, because learning and being taught is what students’ main part of the job. But I guess this is too early to decide what my life’s theme is, because I’m just getting started with my life. So I guess I can’t really state firmly what my life’s theme is as I see it now, because I still have a vast range of knowledge to reach for.

3a. Moral and theme can be similar in a way, but it can also differ from one another. Both are obviously related to the story, and they need to be thought out in order to be figured out. But these two words have a different notion. The moral is like a lesson the writer is trying to teach to the readers, but a theme is like a combination of main idea and moral. So the moral can be defined as only one or two things, but a theme can be concluded in a totally different way based on how the reader comprehends the text.

3b. As a Christian, I can’t even dare to think what God’s plan for this world is, but I do know that God has a plan for this world because he loves each and every single one of us. So I can come up with only one conclusion. Maybe the theme for God’s plan is to have as many of our spirits in his kingdom to be beside him. God is beyond everything, so I have no idea of what and how God’s plan can be for this world. Nobody knows for sure what his plan is and how he’s going to make it happen, except God himself.

4. Every Christian would know that John 3:16 summarizes the whole bible in a single verse. It states that anyone who believes Jesus as their savior will gain eternal life. Statement like this lets me know that there is a cause and effect for every affair. The cause part of this verse is where it says for anyone who accepts Jesus as their personal Christ and the effect is where it says that person will gain the eternal life. It can sound more like a hypothesis if you look in a different view, but as for the text, it relates more as a cause and effect. I concluded like this because I know for a fact that God plans every single event that happens in our life, and he knows every result of it. In a same way, the truth that I might find in the literature will be based on the moral of the story, which is taught by a cause made by the character and the effect they intake.