Theme is the goal in question form.
Luke Skywalker - I want to be a Jedi
Theme: What makes a Jedi?
Thesis: skilled warrior who can force weapons
Thesis: warrior who allows the force to use the weapons through him
Thesis is how the goal is achieved.
Thesis 1: Trains and tests himself in fights with weapons
Thesis 2: Trains and allows the force to take control of the weapons
May help to ask "What would the main character want, even if the group goal, story goal, changed?
If the story goal wasn't to stop the death star but to stop some other weapon or to catch darth vader, or to win a space race....what would Luke still want. To be a Jedi.
That's how I parse out theme from all of the goals floating around in a story. I look at the personal goal of the main character. What he would want even if these other events changed.
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