How to develop a theme of a story?

Question

*** FROM A SHORT STORY I JUST READ< HOW TO DEVELOP IT FROM THERE< what Do I look for?

Answer 1

Look at the last act's final climax. What value do you see? Good triumphs evil? Evil triumphs good? What caused this? No one fought the criminals? The good fought like criminals?

Your theme will be the Value plus the Cause.

For example, in the Harry Potter movies, Harry begins each story as a fish out of water. At the last act's final climax he defeats his foes and and is accepted among the wizards. So, we can say the value is Acceptance. The cause is when we're confident of our abilities. So the theme will be "We are accepted when we're confident of our own abilities." We could also go with a good triumphs evil when we're confident of our own abilities. So, either way you go, you'll need to support it. Both would be correct.

Answer 2

Developing the theme is the basis of creative writing. You need to use your imagination. Use your life experiences or stories you have heard and then use your your imagination to develop that into a basic idea for a story. If you can write that idea into one clear sentence you have a theme. Using the theme as the base you make an outline of how the story should go, and then fill the story from there. Remember the outline is a guide and should keep you on a basic path, but if the story needs to change and go somewhere else, don't be afraid to experiment. You can always go back to the original outline if the new idea doesn't work out, just as long as you have an idea of what the story is about.

Answer 3

First, you need to come up with a theme in order to develop a theme. Once that happens the theme will develop as the story develops.

Answer 4

Pick an event you know the most about, and then build on that. If you have, for instance, a "wierd friend", you might build a theme about that person. The important thing about writing any story is to borrow from your own life experiences. You can build a complete story on one thought-line that you might remember, even from childhood.

Answer 5

You'll have to first remember something from your life that was of great interest to you, and just write a few notes on your machine or paper.

Then fictionalize it... make up place names, people's names... make up different ways the people are, how they dress and talk and even how they eat, really know them again in this fiction form. Know the place too...

Now you are ready to set your memory into this fiction place, and you embroider on that, too... make up things you wish had happened, leave out those you want to, really KNOW this event in this place, all fiction now... your theme.