...Emotions and thoughts on being different Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, and Langston Hughes the author of I, Too display many differences throughout their work. Each author’s use of imagery and the tones they convey allow the reader to understand their emotions. To begin with, in the novel Night by Elie Wiesel and the poem “I, too” by Langston Hughes, the two author’s use of imagery is different because they both give really different images in your head...An example of this difference in the novel is “Our backyard looked like a marketplace. Valuable objects, precious rugs, silver candlesticks, bibles and other ritual objects were strewn over the dusty grounds.” The imagery helps create an image of a backyard full of things with price...
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...that they have no control over. Perhaps the most iconic example of this is the Holocaust. The concentration camps altered the behaviors and beliefs of those in them. Elie Wiesel explains these consequences of the environment through his personal story in the book Night and his speech The Perils of Indifference. Another great example of these changes that people undergo in specific situations is in the movie Life is Beautiful. These examples justify the idea that the environment in which a person is placed helps to shape their personality,...
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...government and society. When life is attained from a human being, their outlook on life becomes devious. Having a positive on life conceives comfort in many people’s lives. When an outside fury comes along and changes someone’s life, his or her attitude is going to change drastically. In three books I’ve read, “Night”, “The Handmaid’s Tale”, and “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, each struggle with the society they are dealt with. To be more specific, each main character has to struggle for freedom in the society that is surrounding them. When someone is enforced to go against his or her accustomed state of life, a negative state of mind is most likely going to be perceived through that person’s actions. In Elie Wiesel’s novel “Night”, a gloomy conduct is shown towards freedom, faith, and life. One of the most important rights as a human being is the capability to live willingly. Freedom gives people the right...
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...Dehumanization in Night Dehumanization; the process that made the Jews living during the Holocaust seem less than human. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel writes about his life as a young Jew trying to survive while living in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Throughout his story, multiple examples of dehumanization are shown. Jews begin to lose their rights as citizens. Eventually they are stripped of their identities, and are being treated as if they are nothing but animals. Elie, his father, and the rest of the Jewish people were seen as not being worthy of humane treatment. Millions of Jews were murdered as if they were nothing but objects for the Nazi's to work and starve to death. Following the period of time that the...
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...He witnessed over thousands die and more suffer. He survived one of the worst events in human history and is now sharing his unbelievable journey with millions across the world. In his Holocaust memoir Night, Elie Wiesel discusses the theme of Race. Through his use of diction, imagery, and dialogue Wiesel powerfully expresses to the reader that the Holocaust was an extremely painful journey with many struggles along the way. Wiesel’s use of diction specifically demonstrates the dehumanization and racist effects shown toward the Jews everyday. In chapter 6, one of the SS officers addresses the Jews as “Filthy dogs!” (Wiesel 63). This use of diction shows that the SS officers did not even view the Jews as Jew or as any race at all. Instead they viewed them as dogs, filthy dogs. The word filthy implies the meaning of disgust or unsanitary. As if it is their own fault that they are dirty. Another use of diction was in chapter 5, “I had ceased myself to be anything but ashes.” (Wiesel 50). “Ceased myself to be anything,” means nothing. He has become nothing but ashes. It is very straight to the point, short and brief....
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...#2 Use details from the text to explain how human beings respond to the concentration camps. How do the attitudes, personalities and behavior change over time. In the story, Night by Elie Wiesel, a story is told by Elie Wiesel himself about how he and his family were captured by Nazis in 1944 and thrown into concentration camps. He recalls events that happened in that dark time period like how he and his father were separated from his mother and three sisters when they arrived at the first concentration camp, Auschwitz. Also, he talks about all of the horrible things that went on around him including the horrible conditions that he and his father had to go through. The people in the concentration camps changed throughout the story due to the circumstances they were in. The first thing that the reader notices about the people in the camps is that they had turned on each other and helped destroy each other physically while imprisoned by the Nazis. The reason for this is because they are each desperate to survive and will do anything to stay alive even if it means killing each other for food. Also...
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...Holocaust seem less than human. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel writes about his life as a young Jew trying to survive while living in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Throughout his story, multiple examples of dehumanization are shown. The Jews people begin to lose their rights as citizens. Eventually they are stripped of their identities, and are treated as if they are nothing but animals. Elie, his father, and the rest of the Jewish people were seen as not being worthy of humane treatment. Millions of Jews were murdered as if they were nothing but objects for the Nazi's to work and starve to death. Following the period of time that the Jews in Elie's community spent in the ghettos, which separated them from the rest of society, they were sent away. The Jews were transported using...
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...(Goldsmith, n.d.). This quote by Oliver Goldsmith (n.d.) focuses on how every life is a journey that they need to go on. No matter what happens in live, the only place to go is forward. In the movie "Life is Beautiful" (2000) and Elie Wiesel's (2006) book Night, Elie and Joshua's lives are not bright. They are going through one of the hardest times of their lives, whether they know it or not. God provided for both boys to keep their paths straight and keep them moving through the torturous times. With love, life is hard to live; thankfully, both Elie and Joshua had their fathers to stand beside them and give them the encouragement to...
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...The Psychology of Evil: Night "Nobody is ever just a refugee. Nobody is ever just a single thing. We dehumanize people when we reduce them to a single thing and this dehumanization is insidious and unconscious," said Chimamanda Adichie, a Nigerian novelist, and former refugee. As Adichie said, dehumanizing, being treated like animals, is a horrendous thing and it has happened in the past and continues to happen today. History is full of situations where victimizers abused their power resulting in deindividualized and dehumanized victims. Such as Elie Wiesel was not just prisoner A-7713, he was a human being as were others put into concentration camps and many who have been oppressed and dehumanized. In Philip Zimbardo’s experiment the guards dehumanized and deindividualized the prisoners (Zimbardo). In Night the prisoners were dehumanized when Dr. Mengele made them...
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...Comparing Beloved and Night The two novels I am writing about are "Night" by Elie Wiesel and "Beloved," by Toni Morrison. Beloved tells about slavery and an ex-slave mother's struggle with a past which is projected as the haunting of her people. It tells the story of Sethe, a mother compelled to kill her child, rather than let the child live a life of slavery. Toni Morrison uses ghosts and the supernatural to create an enhanced acceptance of the human condition and the struggled survival of the Black American. The novel is set in Ohio in the 1880's. The Civil War had been won, slavery had been abolished, however, the memories of slavery still remain. Although the story itself is fictional, the novel is based on real events. The events are based on the trial in Cincinnati of Margaret Garner, who with her husband, and seventeen other slaves (Kentuckian) crossed the Ohio where they supposedly found safe shelter. When it was discovered that they had been pursued and surrounded, and her husband overpowered, Margaret knew that any hope of freedom was in vain. She refused to see her children taken back into slavery. Without delay, Margaret quickly took hold of a butcher's knife which was laid on a table and cut the throat of her young daughter. She then attempted to kill her other children as well, then herself, but she was overpowered and held back before she could follow through. She was arrested and put on trial on the grounds that...
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...Jose Cruz Ms.Tran English-10 March 5, 2015 The Suffering of Jews The horrifying smell of burned flesh in the air is what the smell throughout the day during the harsh time at the concentration camp. Living like an animal in a human body, the Jews became nothing. Day by day the lives of the Jews became more and more distant from the life they used to know; the outlook of the Jews become grim, darker than night. Everything started to become empty. Throughout the time of the Holocaust, the Jews faced starvation, loss of freedom, and even got their identity of being a human snatched from them. Death everywhere in sight and food no where to be found, many Jews had to face starvation; children, men, and women dropping dead everywhere. Elie...
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...Building a Repertoire of Examples The SAT essay is intended to measure your writing skills, not your knowledge of any specific subject. Therefore, the essay prompts given on the SAT must be fairly open-ended, so that anyone with a highschool education and life experiences common to all teenagers can respond to them. Most of them deal with basic philosophical, psychological, moral, or social issues. In my experience as a teacher, I’ve seen that the biggest challenge students face in writing the SAT essay is coming up with rich and relevant examples to discuss within the twenty-five minutes you’re given for the essay section. Quite often, students end up using examples that are inappropriate or superficial, or they don’t know enough about the examples they’ve chosen to write about them in detail. The way to combat this problem is to create your own repertoire of examples that you are well prepared to write detailed paragraphs about. Then, when you read the prompt you’re given on the day of the test, you can simply choose the examples from your repertoire that are most relevant to that particular topic. (Of course, this method isn’t fullproof; it may happen that you are unfortunate enough to get a topic that your prepared examples aren’t really appropriate for. If that’s the case, don’t try to force your examples to fit the topic. The process of coming up with these examples and writing several practice essays will also help you learn how to come up with new examples on the fly.) As you...
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...Meaning and Existentialism in My Life - Existentialism is a phiosophy which revolves around the central belief that we create ourselves. External factors are not important. It is the way that we let external factors affect us that determines who we are. As individuals we all have the freedom to choose our own path and that is what life is all about. Along with the freedom of choice comes the responsibilty of one's actions which can make some people anxious but give others meaning to their lives. To overcome this anxiousness and accept responsibilty is to meet the challenges of life and to truly live it.... [tags: Existentialism, ] 675 words (1.9 pages) $14.95 [preview] Understanding Existentialism - Do we matter. Do we seek personal happiness in life. These are questions from existentialism. The dictionary defines existentialism as an individual’s experience filled with isolation in a hostile universe where a human being attempts to find true self and the meaning of life through free will, choice, and personal responsibility. Hamlet is an existentialist character who believes that he is forced to avenge his father’s death and the hatred builds in his heart because of the many betrayals which direct him towards a senseless life and constant thoughts about suicide; this ultimately leads to his demise and he is left with naught.... [tags: Existentialism] 872 words (2.5 pages) $14.95 [preview] Life Value vs. Existentialism in Grendel - A main theme in John Gardner’s Grendel...
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...The Write Approach: English Language Arts Research and Writing Guide Student Name: John Burroughs High School Burbank, CA The Write Approach Table of Contents Glossary of Terms The Writing Process Thinking Maps The Six Types of Writing Prompts Jane Shaffer Writing Terms Writing a Thesis Statement Writer’s Signal Words 1 4 5 6 7 8 11 Things NEVER to Do in an Essay 12 MLA Guidelines and Style Sheet Sample Essay Formatting Guide to Formatting Essays Using MS Word Revising and Proofreading Essays JBHS Proofreading Symbols Proofreading/Editing Worksheet MLA Quoting and Citation Guide Quote Integration FAQs Work Cited Page Why Did I Get This Grade? JBHS Academic Honesty Policy List of Resources and References Academic Honesty Contract 14 15 © JBHS English Department 2009 19 27 28 30 32 33 35 38 40 43 44 Glossary of Writing and Research Terms Annotated Bibliography: Includes a summary and/or evaluation of each of the sources used for researching a topic. Audience: Those whom you want your writing to reach. A writer needs to choose the appropriate words and style for his or her intended audience. Body Paragraph: Makes up most of an essay and has three main parts: a topic sentence, concrete detail/commentary, and a concluding sentence. Citation: [also known as parenthetical or in-text citation] Names a source and page number for text which quotes from, uses specific details from, or paraphrases source/research...
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...___________________________ LIVING HISTORY Hillary Rodham Clinton Simon & Schuster New York • London • Toronto • Sydney • Singapore To my parents, my husband, my daughter and all the good souls around the world whose inspiration, prayers, support and love blessed my heart and sustained me in the years of living history. AUTHOR’S NOTE In 1959, I wrote my autobiography for an assignment in sixth grade. In twenty-nine pages, most half-filled with earnest scrawl, I described my parents, brothers, pets, house, hobbies, school, sports and plans for the future. Forty-two years later, I began writing another memoir, this one about the eight years I spent in the White House living history with Bill Clinton. I quickly realized that I couldn’t explain my life as First Lady without going back to the beginning―how I became the woman I was that first day I walked into the White House on January 20, 1993, to take on a new role and experiences that would test and transform me in unexpected ways. By the time I crossed the threshold of the White House, I had been shaped by my family upbringing, education, religious faith and all that I had learned before―as the daughter of a staunch conservative father and a more liberal mother, a student activist, an advocate for children, a lawyer, Bill’s wife and Chelsea’s mom. For each chapter, there were more ideas I wanted to discuss than space allowed; more people to include than could be named; more places visited than could be described...
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