Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Themes vs. Messages

I kind of like that idea, and I'm not sure whether it would be a theme or a message. I'm not even sure what the difference is. Maybe it's that a message is something the author tries to communicate using a theme. If that's the case, then I think what Jordan said would be a message: you can find connections between seemingly unrelated things, and finding this relationship can in turn reveal more about each subject.

I think that if that is the message, it's sort of a minor aspect of what the book is trying to communicate. Because, like we've established, the book isn't really trying to communicate information but explain that economic theory can be applied to unusual subjects and yield interesting information. Maybe the idea that you can find connections between unconnected subjects is just a sort of a subplot. I don't know, thoughts?

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