for example, the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel. What would be one theme?
2007-03-08 14:12:09 · 12 answers · asked by Kiara 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
The theme of a fable is its moral. The theme of a parable is its teaching. The theme of a piece of fiction is its view about life and how people behave.
Here are some ways to uncover the theme in a story: Check out the title. Sometimes it tells you a lot about the theme.
Notice repeating patterns and symbols. Sometimes these lead you to the theme.
What allusions are made throughout the story?
What are the details and particulars in the story? What greater meaning may they have?
In "Night" by Elie Wiesel, the recurring themes are Wiesel's increasing disgust with mankind and his loss of faith in God, reflected in the inversion of the father-child relationship as his father declines to a helpless state and the teenager becomes his resentful caregiver. "If only I could get rid of this dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my own survival ... Immediately I felt ashamed of myself, ashamed forever." In Night, everything is inverted, every value destroyed. "Here there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends," a Kapo tells him. "Everyone lives and dies for himself alone."
Themes:
Death
"Someone began to recite the Khaddish, the prayer for the dead.
I do not know if it has ever happened before, in the long history of the Jews, that people have ever recited the prayer for the dead for themselves."
This moment of prayer comes right after arriving at Auschwitz—"Haven't you heard about it?"—when the group is being marched "to the crematory." They will not be killed (not yet) but the terror this welcome march inflicts serves to instill despondency, melancholia, and separation of the prisoners from each other. The Germans knew this, they knew that their prisoners could not have empathy: the faster the prisoners live for themselves alone, the faster they die together. Eliezer grasps the message of their first walk, saying, "[h]umanity is not concerned with us." There is no one to witness their death and no one to mourn them with the right prayer except themselves. Later, when Akiba Drumer is selected for .....
2007-03-08 14:23:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The main theme is the holocaust. Elie Wiesel is a holocaust survivor, and the book is about the experience in Nazi concentration camps.
2007-03-08 14:17:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
in english literature each book has a theme or themes. In literature it recognises certain themes such as : LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS, WOMEN IN SOCIETY, HEROISM, FAMILY LIFE, just to name a few. In all there are 5 theses are the four i know. A book can have more than one theme, sometimes all five. Read the book and discuss the story along these particular themes and you have your answer.
2007-03-08 14:32:15 · answer #3 · answered by hershey's kisses 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the theme is the main idea or subject of a story.
2007-03-08 14:15:21 · answer #4 · answered by I know, I know!!!! 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A theme could be anything you want it to be like a mystery like the mystery would be the main idea!!
2007-03-08 14:15:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Obtused
2007-03-08 14:18:16 · answer #6 · answered by WAPOS 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you do your reading? Or are you just looking for an answer to your homework?
Look up the word theme in the dictionary and then you will know what your looking for.
2007-03-08 14:16:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
umm segregation.. sorry i dont even know if im talkin about the same book.;. theme means a one worded main idea
2007-03-08 14:14:50 · answer #8 · answered by luhb u much!! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same as the plot.
2007-03-08 14:15:08 · answer #9 · answered by Ted 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic:
2007-03-08 14:15:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋