Theme plus the things they carried part 2

So theme is defined as a readers take or the overall moral of a story. It's where we get the moral of little red riding hood from when we dive into the text and see what really lies behind all the metaphors and such. Theme can be anything from love and death to friendship and lies. Theme is not really limited and sometimes isn't supposed to be discovered. There can be more than one theme to a story just like The things they carried had many many themes, some strong themes of death and love but also of mayhem and memories. When we look at the story of The things they carried when compared to Little Red Riding hood Death plays a role in both stories. Little red riding hood more of a moral message of be careful who you trust with the things they carried being a message of "moral" or "no moral" in war. Love is represented by the lieuntenent looking at the pic and little red riding hood loves her grandmother. If you ask me I think Love and Death are probably pretty much represented in most literature, movies, art work things like that because well those are the two biggest themes of life or at least the most important themes of life in which we think about these things everyday because whether we are off at war or being decieved by a wolf we face them every day.