The Colomber Short Story Theme

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The theme of “The Colomber” is you should face your fear. This is the theme of the story because it effects the main character Stefano Roi’s actions. The two main actions that show this is the proper theme for the story are his decision to leave the inland city and his decision to spend the rest of his life sailing. The theme of “The Colomber” is you should face your fear this is the proper theme for the story because Stefan Roi spends his entire life running away from a shark called the colomber which he fears because he was told by his father it would devour him. At the end of his life he does face his fear only to find that the colomber was not sent to devour him but to deliver to him the Perla del Mare a gift from the King of the Sea. If

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