The theme of the story is the difficulty in maintaining the balance between friendship and duty.
What is the point of a story:
- The theme is a message that the story wants to convey to the reader.
- This message is not placed directly in the story, but is identified through an interpretation of the text.
In "After Twenty Years" we can see two friends who meet after 20 years. These friends broke up after one of them committed a crime and was arrested.
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