Christina Bally- 12/19/2016

Today in class we discussed the difference between a topic and theme in a literary piece. We were given the definition of both and analyzed the differences. Many common perceptions about what a theme is were given to us and we were told that they were myths. We then were given examples of works where the theme was common to another work yet the theme was different. The example given was two different Christmas stories in which Christmas was the theme for both yet both contained more different topics. We then analyzed two different hip hop songs. Both of these songs had similar topics. Although the topics were pretty much the same, the themes were very different. We then realized that topics and themes don't always coordinate.