Theme, as I understand it, is basically a one or two word
description of the moral of a story. In other words, “What am I supposed to
learn from this?” There can be many themes in one story. For example, love
is a common theme, and so is unrequited love (that is love where one person feels
something for another, but it is not returned). In Collins’ The Hunger Games,
it is evident that love between sisters, and the unrequited love between
Peeta and Katniss both exist as a tool to make the novel more interesting and to make
the reader feel something for the characters when something good or bad happens to
them.
In short, the theme exists as a backdrop for what
happens in a story and serves as a message or moral. Some other themes in this book are
survival, man vs. nature, man vs. man, and man vs. self.
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