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Sally Ride persevered and overcame many obstacles.

Space is scary.

In order to be successful, you must learn to never give up.

We should not go into space because we don't know what's out there.

The theme will be something we can learn about the world.

The theme is usually a sentence or two about a life topic.

The theme is usually something we infer, not written in the story.

The theme will explain what a specific character did and learned.

Crickets should get ready for winter.

One should prepare for the future before enjoying the present.

The ants should have helped the cricket.

You need extra food and warmth in the winter.

We can learn from what happened to the cricket.

We can learn from when winter shows up in the story.

We can learn from the cricket's violin.

We can learn from the the ants collecting food.

The Crow was successful when he stopped and thought of a solution.

You have to be creative to solve some problems.

Using your mind and persevering leads to success.

In order to survive, you have to think of solutions to problems.

It's not a lesson.

It mentions the main character

It doesn't start with "the theme of the story is..."

It doesn't make sense.