This will help later in the writing assignment. Whether a story is fiction or non-fiction, it a wonderful thing, for a good story both entertains and educates. Stories in literature are meant to carry themes, lessons to be learned. Stories in life do the same, but the air of reality makes their themes more meaningful and lasting. The death of Keith Seymour is a tragedy which imparts a lesson just as explosive as the mortar shell which killed this man.
Fireworks are dangerous.
A Thematic essay seeks to relate a story to the readers, stressing the lessons that story presents. In Task 3 of the ELA Regents, students must read and analyze two works of literature and compare their content and theme. This Language Arts lesson seeks to make students aware of how the literary device of plot and climax are necessary in transmitting the theme of a story. By seeing how the events of this fireworks tragedy led to a lesson all of us should take to heart, students may see how a plot analysis of literature can yield the same results. A Thematic Essay seeks to present and explain a story to a reader, stressing the theme or lesson the story seeks to illustrate.