Siddhartha Themes Preview
10th Grade English
Name: ___________________________________
Date: ____________ Period: _________________
Read the 4 sentences listed below and decide whether you agree or disagree with them. Then, explain the reasons behind your opinion. After
we discuss each theme as a class, you will be asked to add information or ideas brought up by your classmates.
Topic
Theme
Agree or Reason for
Disagree? Your Opinion
Add New Ideas
From the Discussion
1. Seeking means to have a
goal; but finding means to be
free, to be receptive, to have
no goal.
2. People have to change a
great deal and wear all sorts
of clothes.
3. Knowledge can be
communicated, but not
wisdom.
4. Everything that exists is
good – death as well as life,
sin as well as holiness,
wisdom as well as folly.
Of the themes listed here, which one is the most interesting for you?_________
Rewrite that theme as a pithy aphorism or bumper sticker slogan with modern wording: ___________________________________________