1. Theme

2. What is a theme?
In contemporary literary studies, a theme is the central topic a text treats.

3. Themes can be divided into two categories:
a work's thematic concept is what readers "think the work is about"
Ex.
Hard work
Love
Identity

4. Thematic statement
From the theme we get the thematic statement being "what the work says about the subject".
Ex.
Hard work will pay off in the end
Love is always stronger than hate
Your identity more than skin deep

5. Fairy Tale Practice The Three Little Pigs Thematic concept?
What’s a Thematic
Statement we could make?

6. Cinderella

7. Little Red Riding Hood