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THEME IN CHILDRENS LITERATURE

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Theme or Unifying Truth

Theme in literature is idea that holds the story together, such as a comment about society, human nature, or the human condition. It is the main idea or central meaning of a

Types of theme

Explicit Theme
Implicit Theme

Multiple and secondary Theme

explicit
An Explicit Theme is very clear and easy to find in the story. You don't have to search for it very much, and you can clearly understand what the story's trying to tell you. It's kind of like a moral to a story.

Implicit
An implicit theme is a little harder to find in a story. It could be a theme that comes to you while reading or it's hidden in between the lines of the book.

For example:

Multiple and Secondary Themes

Each reader brings to a story a personal a past, a present, and plans for the future. These elements shape our responses to the story. It seems absurd, then, to expect that diverse human being must agree that exactly that same ideas are most important, and must take from the story exactly the same themes. The story speaks to us out of the our own individual and varying experiences. It speaks a universal truth to us, but Point: our own universal truth, a personal transaction.
-Primary theme -Secondary theme

Special Issue of Theme in Childrens Literature

Traditional Literature Didacticism Nonsense Mature Theme in Childrens Stories

Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature The terms "folk/fairy tales" are interchangeable. They are called "folk" because they are part of the oral tradition handed down from generation to generation by the folk. The term "fairy" denotes the presence of magic, characters like dwarfs, leprechauns, and the like. The characteristics of folktales is presented in outline form below.

Theme - Often universal in quality (That means all people are capable of relating to it, such as unfair treatment by a sibling.) - Generally obvious and straightforward - Usually deals with conflict or contrast, for example good vs. evil
rich vs. poor young vs. old beauty vs. ugliness

 folktales have similiar themes even though they originate in different cultures.

Elements of Folktales Theme Morality and justice. Good and evil. Tells about human nature. They sometimes make us laugh at ourselves. Elements of Fairy Tales Theme Morality and justice. Good and evil. Wonder and possibility. Elements of Myths Theme Myths attempt to explain the beginning of the world, natural phenomena, the relationships between the gods and humans, and the origins of civilization.

Elements of Legends Theme The human ideals most desired by the particular society. The moral code of the country and the time. For example: honor or strength Elements of Fables Theme Good and bad Wisdom and foolishness The story teaches a lesson, which may or many not be expressed in a proverb or maxim. Elements of Tall Tales Theme

Didacticism
Didacticism or instruction, is the function of texbooks. didactic messages made Peter Rabbit a childhood favorite and has kept it a much-loved story for generations. A less didactic theme seems more likely. Animals, or people, mature and go into the world to discover. Mother, scared to death about the consequences accepts them because of her love for her children.

Nonsense
Literary Nonsense is a style of literature where conventional rules of language and general logic do not apply. nonsense-fantasy: Alice in the wonderland Pippi long stoking

But each has as its core the idea of wonder and delight at the order and disorder of life.

Mature Theme in Childrens Stories

A story that refer to theme of grasp.

stories like those from Hans Christian Andersen may introduce children to ideas far more mature than we would expect them to grasp, ideas we find difficult to explain in other ways.
For example: Fear is very much a part of childhood. o Attractiveness of evil in Snow white and seven dwarfs o The fear of going out into the world Dick Whittington and His Cat

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