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Perrine
(
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in the
follcwing :
"'rne
theme of a plece of fiction is its centroBing idea
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its central insight.
It
is the !.lnitying ger:.eraiization
about
state
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Theme
must
state
something
that
happens
in
rea! life.
So that
peopie can
easily
understand
the
problem that
the
story presented. lt
might
be about love,
happiness,
despair, hope and :he
like. Those are things that commorly
happen
in our
daiiy
life.
So,
readers
can
easily
understand
and
interprete
the
theme
of
one
story
to be
taken
as
a
moral
lesson. DiYanni (2001) also says :
'Simply
put,
a
story's theme
is its idea
or point formulated
as a generalization".(p.86)
Different
readers
may
differently
interprete
the
theme
of
a
story.
It depends
on
the
perspective of
th·ei.r
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However,
because
of
the
theme
is
expressed
as
a
generalization, readers can
accept those different
interpretation as
long
as
it
makes
sense,
The theme
cannot
be seen
directly
iJ.>
the story
but it is oniy indirectly
felt
by
feeling
after finishirg reading the
whole story. Due to
its
status as an
abstract work, the
author's meaning
is usually
not
openiy
stated in the
paragraphs.
The theme
can be seen from
the ac:tions
carried
out
by the
character.
A
main
caharacter, for
example,
is
the
one
who
is responsible for
revealing the
theme because he
is
the
one who
the author
focuses
on. The changing
of this character
can support a
story's themeas it does
in a John
Steinbeck story,
The
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