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Read the story "The Cake" from The Pig Brother and Other Fables and Stories by Laura E. Richards

Once a Cake would go seek his fortune in the world, and he took his leave of the Pan he was baked in.

"I know my destiny," said the Cake. "I must be eaten, since to that end I was made; but I am a good cake, if I say it who should not, and I would fain choose the persons I am to benefit."

"I don't see what difference it makes to you!" said the Pan.

"But imagination is hardly your strong point!" said the Cake.

"Huh!" said the Pan.

The Cake went on his way, and soon he passed by a cottage door where sat a woman spinning, and her ten children playing about her.

"Oh!" said the woman, "what a beautiful cake!" and she put out her hand to take him.

"Be so good as to wait a moment!" said the Cake. "Will you kindly tell me what you would do with me if I should yield myself up to you?"

"I shall break you into ten pieces," said the woman, "and give one to each of my ten children. So you will give ten pleasures, and that is a good thing."

"Oh, that would be very nice, I am sure," said the Cake; "but if you will excuse me for mentioning it, your children seem rather dirty, especially their hands, and I confess I should like to keep my frosting unsullied, so I think I will go a little further."

"As you will!" said the woman. "After all, the brown loaf is better for the children."

So the Cake went further, and met a fair child, richly dressed, with coral lips and eyes like sunlit water. When the child saw the Cake, he said like the woman, "Oh, what a beautiful Cake!" and put out his hand to take it.

"I am sure I should be most happy!" said the Cake. "And you will not take it amiss, I am confident, if I ask with whom you will share me."

"I shall not share you with anyone!" said the child. "I shall eat you myself, every crumb. What do you take me for?"

"Good gracious!" cried the Cake. "This will never do. Consider my size,—and yours! You would be very ill!"

"I don't care!" said the child. "I'd rather be ill than give any away." And he fixed greedy eyes on the Cake, and stretched forth his hand again.

"This is really terrible!" cried the Cake. "What is one's frosting to this? I will go back to the woman with the ten children."

He turned and ran back, leaving the child screaming with rage and disappointed greed. But as he ran, a hungry Puppy met him, and swallowed him at a gulp, and went on licking his chops and wagging his tail.

"Huh!" said the Pan.

In a paragraph of 5–7 sentences, respond to the following questions:


What is the theme of this story?
Is it stated or implied?
How did the theme develop over the course of the story?

Use complete sentences, your best writing skills, and details from the passage to support your response. PLEASE ANSWER QUICK

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ProfChris1idn

We can see here that the theme of this story reveals that one must learn to appreciate and help generous poor people because the nice looking greedy people might be a bait to destroy one. The theme of this story was actually implied.  The theme of the story develops over the course of the story as the Cake keeps looking for a perfect person to eat it but ended up in the mouth of an hungry puppy.

What is theme?

Theme of a story is actually known to be the underlying idea which a writer or author wishes to share with the readers. Themes are usually known to help readers to grasp what an author is passing across in his story.

We see here that the theme develops over the course of the story through the way the Cake kept looking for perfection in the person that will eat it.

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Answer:

1) The theme of this story is to learn that you need to respect and help people who may not be rich. If you are not in need of resources, food,water etc., you must share with the poor who are in need.

2) The theme of the story is not stated, it is implied.

3) Cake was looking for someone who would benefit from eating him. This shows that he wanted to help someone who wasn't greedy and some who was willing to share, even if they were rich. Cake ended up benefiting the starving puppy who was in need of food.

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