Universal Theme in Night by Elie Wiesel

The directions are: In less than 750 words, discuss the universal theme of the text.
a. Use a minimum of five direct quotes to support your theme.
b. You may not use personal pronouns in your writing.
c. Be objective and unemotional in your writing, yet be persuasive; make me see your view of the text.

The book is really good.. but i have a really hard time finding the theme in all books. If you could just give me a lil help with that area, and examples of the quotes (from the author or other characters). Thanks soo much!!

theme: sparknotes.com/lit/night/themes.html
imporant quotes: sparknotes.com/lit/night/quotes.html

just some ideas and what to look for!

That's great advice, Sandra! Sparknotes is a good resource to help students understand themes in a literary work.

Taylor, your job is like this: Skim through and find 5 quotes. Then, think about each quote and the ideas it expresses. For each quote, write a paragraph about how that quote relates to the theme.

You can do it with anything. For example, if I was writing about the theme of leadership, I could take your quote:


This quote demonstrates the leader's ability to give specific instructions about what is expected of her human assistants.

I don't know if that example is easy to understand, but... if you DO understand it, you will be able to write about any theme/quotes.

Write one paragraph about each quote -- i.e. that is, write one paragraph about how each quote is related to the main theme of the paper.