My school work requests that I state a theme for some short stories that I am reading but not all the stories seem to have a theme. Such as "The Monkey" (Stephen King), the story is about an adult man who finds a long lost toy monkey with his sons. The story explains a mysterious evil power that the monkey has that the man discovered in his youth. With the return of the monkey, evil begins to arise again until the man discards it in a lake.
As much as I love the story, I can't see any real theme to it. Am I simply not thinking deep enough or does the story really lack a universal theme?
2007-07-15 17:13:57 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The battle of good and evil. The man fought off the evil in his youth, it has returned again no and he must fight it again.
The theme of a recurring evil hich mut be overcome or pushed back to fight another day, is a common one in Stephen King's work.
A story must have a theme.
2007-07-15 17:19:57 · answer #1 · answered by farmacistdmc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seems to me you just described a theme in "The Monkey." The return of an old evil for the man's youth and how he has to defeat it.
2007-07-16 00:20:43 · answer #2 · answered by knight1192a 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
possession.theme often used. objects are used in that matter by evil sources. in others a magic ring. in Lord Of The Rings it was a mountain it was thrown into. there is astorie of the use of a magic ring by a skeletal or zombie groom to bind a bride to them in a magical and ceremonial way. hero saves the bride usually.
2007-07-16 00:25:00 · answer #3 · answered by darren m 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋