This document provides guidance on comparing the theme between a novel and film adaptation. It instructs the reader to identify the theme of their novel, watch a film with the same theme, and describe similarities and differences in how each medium portrays the theme. The reader is then told to prepare a 5 minute oral presentation comparing the novel and film's treatment of the theme, and to practice and record their presentation. The document also provides examples of common themes and discusses how to identify a work's theme by examining its plot, characters, setting, and narrator.

1. Module 4
Comparison of the Theme in a
Novel and Film
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2. Sid
Step 1
● What is the theme of you book?
● How do you know? Explain.
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3. Sid
Step 2
● Watch a movie that has the same theme.
● Explain how the theme is dealt with in the movie
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4. Sid
Step 3
● Describe similarities and differences between the
novel and the film.
● Do they have the same view on the theme? Explain.
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5. Sid
Step 4
● Write down some notes.
● Prepare an oral presentation:
– What are you going to say?
– In what order?
– Practice many times! Check that your presentation is at least
5 minutes.
– Make a video recording or make an appointment with your
teacher.
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6. Sid
Theme
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● Examples of themes: love, hatred, loneliness,
romance, jealousy, loss, betrayal, sexuality, revenge,
racism, persecution, greed, freedom, forgiveness,
abandonment, addiction, ambition etc.
– Find evidence of this theme, by looking at:
• The plot
• The characters
• The setting
• The narrator
• Etc.

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The plot
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● What is the story about?
● Main events – basic storyline.
● Give some examples of events that clearly shows the
theme of the story.

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The setting
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● Where does the story take place?
– City or countryside?
– One place or many different?
– One room/building or a larger area?
– How do we know this?
● When is the story set?
– What time in history? Modern time/future or past?
– Short/limited period like one day/one hour etc?
– Long period like several years?
– How do we know this?
How is this connected to the theme?

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The characters
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● Protagonist – main character
● Antagonist – a major character, opposes the
protagonist.
● How are they described?
– Physical appearance
– Psychological qualities
– Actions and dialogues
How is this connected to the theme?

10. Sid
The narrator
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● Who is telling the story?
– One of the characters?
– Someone from the outside?
– Thoughts, feelings, opinions? Whose?
How is this connected to the theme?

11. Sid
When you read
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● Keep a notebook close by, to write down page
references or other things that might be useful.
● Don’t worry if you don’t understand every single word
in the book. Keep reading, you will probably
understand the gist of it anyway. Don’t look up all the
words in a dictionary, only the once that are crucial to
understand the context.
● Give yourself mini-deadlines. How many chapters
should you read every week (or pages per day)?
● When you write: stick to the topic and don’t include
unnecessary information.

12. Good luck!
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