What is a story’s message, and what is its theme? Are those different things? Have we been using words wrong this whole time? This week we aim to find out. Listen as battle lines are drawn over academic vs common word usage, and then as battle lines are erased so we can talk about what classic books mean. We discuss reader interpretation vs author interpretation, the importance of context, and why some messages are better than others.
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Trying what I learned on this podcast to the song The Princess Who Saved Herself, I’d say it’s about saving yourself. The lesson I took away from the story is that you have to save yourself. You can’t always rely on others to save you.