What are some themes and morals for a short story?

Answer 1

No, the moral of a story is implied by the text. The story implies the moral. The reader infers the moral.

Answer 2

Common themes are that not all things are what they seem to be; money cannot buy happiness; the grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence; virtue has its own reward and other common statements about life in general.

1. It is best to prepare for the days of necessity

2. Clumsy jesting is no joke

3. It is easy to propose impossible remedies

4. Union gives strength

5. People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

6. Better starve free than be a fat slave

7. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction

8. A little thing in hand is worth more than a great thing in prospect

9. Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties

10. It is easy to despise what you cannot have

11. One bad turn deserves another

12. Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction

13. Work before play

14. Treat others the way you want to be treated

15. One mans pleasure may be another mans pain

16. Better no rule than cruel rule

17. Greed often overreaches itself

18. He that has many friends, has no friends

19. Plodding and plodding wins the race

20. It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds

21. Love can tame the wildest

22. Little friends may prove great friends

23. Do not count your chickens before they are hatched

24. Wealth unused might as well not exist

25. Much outcry, little outcome

26. We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified

27. Only cowards insult dying majesty

28. Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ales in fear

29. Kindness affects more than severity

30. It is easy to be brave from a safe distance

31. Appearances are deceptive

32. Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten

Answer 3

Sometimes it is sometimes it isn't like say if you have a story about a guy liking a girl and him trying to get her to like him the moral would be to be yourself but the theme can be like him growing up or something but in other times like say a person got encountered with a bear then the moral would be to be brave and it would also fit into that theme. :)