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English I

English I. September 23 rd , 2013. Theme: . Definition: The underlying message of a text . Stated: stated by the narrator or a characters in a text. Implied: suggested by the plot and the reader has to infer. Theme. The theme of a text develops over the course of the story.

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English I

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  1. English I September 23rd, 2013

  2. Theme: • Definition: The underlying message of a text. • Stated: stated by the narrator or a characters in a text. • Implied: suggested by the plot and the reader has to infer

  3. Theme • The theme of a text develops over the course of the story. • To understand the theme of the story we have to look at the plot and it how it develops over the course of the story. • Look at “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town”

  4. Claim: The theme of “The Road Not Taken” is, all choices have consequences Warrant 1: “And sorry I could not travel both” Impact 1: The speaker has to choose between two life paths and each path will have a different consequence.

  5. Claim: The theme of “The Road Not Taken” is, all choices have consequences Warrant 2: “Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back.” Impact 2: The speaker has realized that by choosing the path he did he now is unable to go back to the other choice, this is a consequence because he has to give up the other choice completely.

  6. Claim: The theme of “The Road Not Taken” is, all choices have consequences. • Warrant 3: “Two roads diverged…and that has made all the difference.” Impact 3:Because of the speaker’s choice the consequences are different compared to the other path Impact 3: The choice the speaker made made him face a different consequence compared to the other path/life choice.

  7. Warrant: “And sorry I cold not travel both” • Impact: the man comes across the two roads which represent his two life choices and he realizes he can only choose one.

  8. Warrant: “then took the other, as just as fair…I doubted if I should ever come back.” Impact: these two quotes show that the speaker has made his decision and now cannot go back making his decision that much harder.

  9. Warrant “ and both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black.” • Impact: both choices were equal but would have different outcomes. By both choices being almost equal it made the decision more difficult for the speaker.

  10. Warrant: “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” Impact: After all of his troubles and worries he finally decides he made the better decision. Impact: This shows that the outcome would not have been the same if he had chosen the other path. Impact: He makes a choice that changes his life, if he had chosen the other path the outcome may have been different.

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