How can authors reveal a theme throughout a literary text?

Themes are developed by authors through the following ways.

1. What happens:key events

2. Characters:Character qualities,character actions and how characters respond to situations may all relate to theme.

3. Character development:The ways characters change and the lessons they learn indicate themes for the reader.

in night, why are wiesel and his father evacuated from the auschwitz concentration camp? a massive escape makes the nazis question the security of auschwitz. they are assigned to work as laborers in a factory at another camp, buna. hitler has ordered that all remaining jews be relocated within german borders. the german army needs the camp guards to go to the battle front for a last-chance defense.