Answer:
the themes in The Star Beast are, human hypocrisy, pride and cowardice.
Explanation:
hypocrisy: priests should advocate peace and forgiveness, however, the priest in the star Beast treated the beast ruthlessly when it says formulas have nothing to do with religion.
pride: humans don't want to be seen as at the same level as the beast. they think it's just a beast because of its appearance.
cowardice: the humans act cowardly, trying to deceive themselves into thinking that nothing can be superior to humans as they are animals of the highest wisdom and intelligence.
The benefit of group work that is demonstrated in this example is enabling a complex task be broken down to simpler and fewer works. Since each individual had been given fewer task, it leads to increase of productivity while saving the time consumed in finishing the project.
All of these could be considered an "author's purpose". An author is technically anyone who writes anything, therefore the purpose of writing is theoretically limitless. If you have to choose one of these, however, it would be "to remind".
What language is this? Russian >.<
