Writing a quotation essay is not as easy a task as one would think. It is not the writing that is difficult, but the selection. The staggering number of quotes in existence makes it difficult for an author to select one. After all a quote, by definition is mealy something that any person has said or written down. This opens up the entirety of all human experience for discussion. A way that one can begin …showed first 75 words of 499 total…

…showed last 75 words of 499 total…hope to recognize the distorted silhouettes for what they are. The interpretation pertains to the writing of a quotation essay because, like the prisoner staring uselessly into the darkness, the student cannot ever hope to come to a true interpretation of the truth of the quote. They can only sit in the dark in front of their computer and sift through the reams of human quotes, trying to determine what any of them really means.