All 7 Uses of
theme
in
The Outsiders
- You're failing this class right now, but taking into consideration the circumstances, if you come up with a good semester theme, I'll pass you with a C grade.
p. 169..9theme = essay
- What's the theme supposed to be on?
p. 170..4
- And it isn't a reference theme; I want your own ideas and your own experiences.
p. 170..4
- I tried to write that theme when I got home.
p. 172..2
- This one started because I hadn't done anything on that theme, and I wanted to go for a ride.
p. 173..5
- That theme— how long can it be?
p. 179..8
- I wondered for a long time how to start that theme, how to start writing about something that was important to me.
p. 180..6 *
Definition:
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(theme as in: wrote a 2-page theme on my summer) an essay written by a student
(This sense of theme is much rarer in recent decades than in the past.)