For those of you who are checking my blog, here are some of the thesis statements that I created from
our reading of Night. If you take one of these, you must use evidence from the book to prove the thesis.
You can also take one of these and revise it to create your own that you like more and that you feel you
can support with the evidence you have found.
1. Through the use of the word and images of “silence,” in the book Night, Elie Wiesel develops the
theme that the worst sin one commits other than those who created and executed the
holocaust itself, is the silence of those who witnessed the atrocities and never said a word.
2. Elie Wiesel, in his memoir Night, reminds the world that “silence” or “indifference” to atrocities
committed anywhere is an unacceptable answer to those in need.
3. By using the images of darkness and Night, Elie Wiesel explores the theme that “night,” once
known to a Jewish boy as a time of solitude and learning, soon becomes a place where hell is an
inescapable reality and full of human cruelty.
4. Elie Wiesel explores the archetypal battle between good versus evil in his memoir Night;
through his repeated use of symbolism of darkness and night as evil and blue or day as good,
Wiesel shares his memories of his time spent battling the evils of humanity during the
holocaust.
5. Elie Wiesel, author of Night, uses language to examine the breathe of human behavior in a
world turned upside down for a young child confronted with the horrors of the Holocaust in
1944; by sharing his memories of his time spent in concentration camps, Wiesel reminds the
world that cruelty breeds cruelty.
6. Images of silence, night, and darkness abound in Night, the memoir by Elie Wiesel; through
these images, Wiesel creates a haunting reminder to readers of the battle between good versus
evil, waged not only between nations fighting war, but also within the human spirit.
7. Through the memoir Night Elie Wiesel explores the relationship between fathers and sons;
these fragile bonds shared between fathers and sons are tested in the confines of concentration
camps, causing both to feel the strain of love and the guilt of hate.
8. In times of great strain, human beings often resort to behavior very different than their normal
behavior; Elie Wiesel, in his memoir Night, explores the kindness, cruelty, selfishness, and
unselfishness of man under the strain placed upon him during the holocaust.
9. The patterns of symbolism, through the repeated use of fire and night, seen in Night by Elie
Wiesel, help to convey the theme of a world turned upside down due to the holocaust.