4.2_Animal Farm Analytical Paragraph
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Celi Oliveto
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Animal Farm Analytical Paragraph
By Celi Oliveto
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Theme
What is a theme?
The theme of a literary work is the author’s central message about a topic or subject; it should be expressed in a sentence, and be a general statement about life, human nature, or the human experience.
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Theme vs. Subject
What is a theme?
Theme cannot be expressed in a single word: that would be a subject or topic. In Animal Farm, ambition, leadership, fate, guilt etc., are all topics. The theme would be the answer to the question: "what is Orwell saying about these topics?"
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Multiple Choice
Is this a theme statement or a subject?
Dictatorships
Theme
Subject
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Subject
This is a subject
A dictatorship can't be a theme because it doesn't answer the question: "what does Orwell say about dictatorships?"
If your theme is only 1-2 words long, see if you can answer that question!
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Open Ended
What do you think the author, George Orwell, is saying about dictatorships or dictators through the story that we read? Generate at least one sentence.
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Open Ended
What are some single word subjects that animal farm deals with? List as many as you can think of.
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Example Subjects
THE DANGERS OF BEING UNEDUCATED
LEADERSHIP AND CORRUPTION:
RULES AND ORDER:
LANGUAGE AS A TOOL FOR POWER:
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Open Ended
Now, pick one of the sample subjects or one that you've come up with and generate a theme statement. What do you think the author is saying about that subject?
THE DANGERS OF BEING UNEDUCATED, LEADERSHIP AND CORRUPTION, RULES AND ORDER, LANGUAGE AS A TOOL FOR POWER:
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Finished?
When you've completed your theme sentence, go to the back of your composition notebook and copy it into the back page for reference.
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