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"Soon, the people of the house, aroused by the noise, awoke and cried out, 'thieves, thieves!'"
Characters affect theme in terms of conflict and dilemma. If a conflict or dilemma of a given story was altered then the story would take a changed path. Therefore, there would be alteration in the actions of the characters which at the same time would transform the plot of the story.
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