By explaining the concept of being an “also-ran,” the author describes someone who enjoys participating in a contest even though he or she does not win. The quotation from paragraph 9 expresses the author's positive viewpoint of “also-rans” who “finish third in a three-horse race.
You can identify a theme in a text by looking at what the recurrent idea is or what the other sections are trying to support.
<h3>What is a Theme?</h3>
The theme in a story is the central idea that the author tries to pass across to the audience or reader.
Some examples of themes are given below. They are:
Hard work and smart work wins in the end.Teamwork makes the work successful.
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Answer:
audience appeal. noun. Attractiveness to a (target) group of viewers, listeners, or readers.
Explanation:
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This is a short modernist fiction that celebrates the life of the imagination, and points to its shortcomings. As a narrator, Woolf was in the habit of thinking aloud and talking to herself, as well as to her imaginary readers. Here she takes the process one stage further by ‘talking’ to her own fictional creations.
She also shows the process of the artistic imagination at work, raising doubts about its own creations, asking questions, and posing alternative interpretations. She even develops lines of narrative then backtracks on them as improbable or cancels them as invalid, mistaken interpretation, or rejects them as inadequate.
In other words, the very erratic process of ratiocination – all the uncertainties, mistakes, hesitations – are reproduced as part of her narrative. She even addresses her own subject, silently, from within the fictional frame, and reflects on fictional creations which ‘die’ because they are rejected as unacceptable:
