...indicate and identify quotations in the accepted academic way (which I or the Writing Lab will be glad to make clear if necessary) without resort to unnecessary foot- or endnotes. Note that you also have the option of writing on an idea of your own as long as you deal with a work on the syllabus and run it by me first, and that you may expand your presentation, if you have given one. 1. “Primo Levi entitles his first book If This Is a Man (Si questo e un uomo), but it became well known and read widely in translation from the Italian as Survival in Auschwitz aspects of the book.” Discuss. 2. Discuss the possible significance in the narrative as a whole of the episode in Elie Wiesel’s Night (pp. 58-9 in the Hill and Wang edition) where Elie finds his Kapo Idek having sex with a young woman in the empty warehouse. 3. In the last three paragraphs of Chapter 13 of Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi describes a man called Kuhn praying aloud, “thanking God that he has not been chosen” in “the great selection of October 1944.” In the title story of This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen Tadek writes of “naked, sweat drenched men” crowding the barrack aisles, and “directly beneath me [. . .] a rabbi” reading from a Hebrew prayer book and “wailing loudly, monotonously” (Penguin, p. 31). Compare the perspectives in these two scenes and the tone and attitudes of each narrator. 4. In first half of Shoah, in several segments, Claude Lanzmann interviews a group of people...
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...The memoirs Alicia: My Story and Survival in Auschwitz provide two very different accounts of the same event: the Holocaust. There are very basic and obvious differences between Alicia Jurman and Primo Levi, which are shown in the table below. Although these differences seem minor, they had a major affect on the differences between the events Alicia and Primo faced. Age Gender Country of Origin Concentration Camp v. Hiding Alicia Jurman 9 yrs - 15 yrs Female Poland Hiding Primo Levi 24 yrs Male Italy Concentration Camp - Auschwitz Alicia was only nine years old when Poland was invaded by the Germans. Alicia’s young age during the Holocaust earned her the right to be called a “child hero”. It is possible that her young age added to her determination. She knew she was in constant danger, but it did not seem that she had a full understanding of just how serious that danger was. Primo was also very young, and even described how his young age contributed to his naivety: “I was twenty-four, with little wisdom, no experience and a decided tendency….. to live in an unrealistic world of my own…..I cultivated a moderate and abstract sense of rebellion”. Although Primo discussed his immaturity, it still seemed that he had a better understanding of the gravity of the situation. The gender differences also played a role in the different experiences. As a female, Alicia was more able to go into hiding. Even if Primo had escaped, it was too risky for men to hide...
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...downstairs & rented the upstairs rooms to out-patients at the Clinic. One summer evening as I was fixing supper, there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly awful looking man. 'Why, he's hardly taller than my eight-year-old,' I thought as I stared at the stooped, shriveled body. But the appalling thing was his face, lopsided from swelling, red & raw. Yet, his voice was pleasant as he said, 'Good evening. I've come to see if you've a room for just one night. I came for a treatment this morning from the eastern shore, & there's no bus 'till morning.' He told me he'd been hunting for a room since noon but with no success; no one seemed to have a room. 'I guess it's my face. I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments...' For a moment I hesitated, but his next words convinced me, 'I could sleep in this rocking chair on the porch. My bus leaves early in the morning.' I told him we would find him a bed, but to rest on the porch. I went inside & finished getting supper. When we were ready, I asked the old man if he would join us. ' No thank you . I have plenty' And he held up a brown paper bag. When I had finished the dishes, I went out on the porch to talk with him a few minutes. It didn't take a long time to see that this old man had an over sized heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he fished for a living to support his daughter, her five children & her husband, who was hopelessly crippled from a back...
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...In the beginning of this movie there is a lot of communication going on between all the jurors. When it is came time to a vote on whether or not the victim will be guilty or not there is one man who stands out. During the trial he was observing and taking down notes in his mind about the case. Others were also doing the same thing, but did not take in account how to analyze the situation like the old man did. This vote/tally by the whole group is basically a system. They all use this system to see where they all stand on the verdict. The old man decides to state his individuality because these factors: his beliefs, values and morals. This man has a belief that you cannot just send a young man off to possibly die without having talked about it first. He also made this decision based on the context on the situation. He knew some of the people in the room would be too scared to voice their own opinion. Others people’s belief though in the room are not in the right place. Some are more worried about a baseball game or money. Others are basing some things off their background such as the one of the other older gentlemen and his issues with his children. Their background experiences all reflect their actions and attitudes during the whole movie. This was also due to the perception of the situation they were in. Their attitudes and values were also a big influence on them during the movie. The old man that first voted not guilty was definitely a leader. He also had very high self-esteem...
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...A Day in the Museum This is a story about a man sitting in a museum looking at one specific painting: the Stubbs chestnut horse. Doing this, he talks with an older man of near sixty years old about a girl in the museum. This girl reminds the older man about the feeling of rejection in his teen years. The main character is telling the story from his own point of view, as he is the narrator of the story. He is a first person narrator, who does not comment on the characters and the action in an objective way. An example of this is when the girl jokes about the horse in the painting and walks away, just to go back, when she “stared at the horse, which she must have felt she had affronted by her laughter” (page 5 line 6). Of course, the narrator does not know why she comes back to the horse; this is just his guess of what she is thinking. This affects the readers, since we do not get to know the thoughts and feelings of the other characters. At the beginning of the story, the old man tells a younger man about Stubbs the painter and about the horses he painted. But the young man seems restless and he is not interested in listening to the old man. By his exit, he ends up insulting the older man, who does not understand why the young man is not willing to learn anything about Stubbs. Stubbs and the painting of horses seems to mean a great deal to the older man, so he gets insulted, not only by being left, but also because of the fact that the younger man rather wants to go to the...
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..."The Man who loved Flowers" The title of the text is “The Man who loved flowers”. Reading this title made me at once pay more attention to the flowers that have an symbolic meaning. My interpretation of the symbolic meaning of the flowers’ colours is that they represent the girl in the lane, the young man and the relationship between them. The white rose represent the girl, it stands for innocence and ignorance, just like the girl that hasn’t done anything wrong and is unknowing about the man’s intentions. The yellow rose represents the young man. Yellow colour is often connected with lies and falseness as the man tricks the reader and the girl into believing that he is an ordinary man. The last colour is red, it stands for love and is the colour of blood, and love is what connects Nora and the young man. The young man is well dressed (s. 175 l. 11-12) ”he had that look about him. He was dressed in a light grey shit, the narrow tie pulled down a little”. He has got an ordinary face (s.175 l.13-14) “not an extraordinary face, but on this soft spring evening...” . The people that look at him see him as an symbol of spring and young love. You can see that in the way they describe him when he walks by the old lady at the end of the story. This is also what the reader sees him as until the man steps into the lane. Stephen King makes us believe that this is a love story, all the people the man walks by looks at him and think that he is in love, an example is (175 l. 8-10)...
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...boy or “don’t you even start crying, you’re a man and men don’t cry.” These are some of the sentences a young American boy would hear from his father, being a man who has no space for emotions. Most of these ideas stem from the military concept of what an American man should be like. In the military a man should show no fear, be a leader in addition to being aggressive and wise. The thought of a man having feminist symptoms or showing emotions, threatens the American concept of masculinity. Men overindulge in being more aggressive or violent. Secondly, men fear showing signs of weakness or emotions by leading aggressiveness towards the abuse of other women using violent activities. The military concept has shaped American manhood for the worst. Today many American men are becoming frustrated with the idea of what it means to be a man and trying to find their own identity. Many have fallen into depression; question themselves if they have fulfilled their desires of being a man. In the book “Manhood in America” by Michael Kimmel, the author discusses the roles and struggles that American man faces and how the American manhood roles have changed over time. In Temporary About Myself, Kimmel uses different articles to discuss the responsibility of a man and touches on issues of masculinity...
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...come to accept the fact that women can do everything that man can do. It is now acceptable for women to be “manly” without losing their womanhood. The question is: if the image about women only being feminine has changed, how come men are still pressured to only be masculine? Are “macho” men the only “real” men? Does it take a strong jaw-line, defined and muscular abs, and a beer in one hand to be considered a “true” man? Today’s world has summed up men to be just that… In order to be considered real men, they can’t wear the color pink, drink diet soda, do housework, drink fruity-flavored alcoholic drinks, or be anything less than a sports-loving, scotch-drinking, gym-going, and woman-loving guy. In an ad about the new Dr. Pepper soda, “Dr. Pepper Ten”, the slogan that Dr. Pepper used was “IT’S NOT FOR WOMEN” in big, bold letters. This message implies that the drink is meant to be only for men. Underneath the slogan, the ad reads “A lady-free zone of rugged, macho, hair-on-your-chest awesomeness that’s definitely not for women.” In this ad, not only is Dr. Pepper discriminating women, but it is also raising the question that if a guy is not “rugged, macho”, and has “hair on his chest” then, could he not drink that soda? Would he fall in the same category as the women who can’t drink it, therefore not be considered a man? Dr. Pepper made it clear that this drink was for men even though the description of the “ideal man” that they would like to drink their new soda is very specific...
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...Mansfield one conflict that arose was when the fat man tried to put down Leila by telling her that she will lose her youth one day and all of the things she enjoys now will be hopeless when she is old. Leila had a hard time overcoming this conflict as she took the fat man’s words quite harshly. Leila was caught in a dilemma between listening to the fat man or ignoring him. However Leila was able to overcome this conflict by moving on and forgetting what the old man had told her. Leila had done this because she realised that even though what the fat man had said might be true; in the sense that she will grow up one day. But Leila realised that since that day isn’t tomorrow, she knew that it is important that she lives the life to fullest while she is still young. The conflict was important to the text as it showed how Leila reacts to and overcomes the conflict, the conflict also showed that at times it is important to not take everyones opinion to heart, and the conflict showed that it is important to move on from a bad situation. The conflict that Leila faced was that the fat man had said to Leila that her youth wouldn’t last forever. In the text the fat man had told Leila that one day she will have lost her youth, and become an old lady who is unhappy and no longer desired by other men. The fat man says some harsh words that makes Leila upset as she realised he was right in a way, that she will grow old eventually. The fat man had changed Leila’s perspective of the ball from...
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...Many people think that a boy becomes a man when his facial hair starts to grow out, how much money he makes, and what he starts to wear. A man is not defined by his age or looks. Men can have all the money in the world or looks but that doesn’t necessarily make them a man. Men are not born but men are made and raised. Responsibilities, maturity, and respect for women turn a boy into a man. Many boys grow up fast to take they can take care of their families at a early age. Because of no father figure around boys usually end up the man of the household, and start working. Therefore age never determines when you become a man or not. Many 15 years old take many responsibilities while some don’t know the meaning of responsibilities. A man is responsible for keeping food in the fridge, paying the bills, keeping clothes on, etc. “Being a dad is the most manliest job you will ever have”(144) Many young boys today become dads at a very early age and most of them end up not taking the responsibility of their child. “Fathers have stopped passing down the art of manliness to the next generation”. Many fathers neglect their families and children and let them be on their own. This means not having a male figure around for the little boys. Boys look up to their fathers and want to see a good role model. They need a man figure in their lives to teach them how to be a man. How will a boy learn how to be a man if his own father is not around to teach him about manliness and responsibilities...
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...A strong belief I have is that the man should be the head of the household. In the Bible, God says that the man should be the head of the house, but often men do not lead the house and force their wives to. There are many reasons that I hold this belief. One of those reasons is that I have seen men not leading their families or their churches and how it can affect people. Such as my friend whose father left him and his mother, leaving him without a father figure to look up to. Also I have seen my father leading our family and it has shown me how a man is supposed to lead and how God designed the man to be the head of the household. I began to believe in this when I was young and saw a friend who lived with his mom, who was divorced, and didn’t...
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...The Man Who Was Thursday The story of The Man Who Was Thursday, It is a very symbolic Story. The writer G.K. Chesterton takes you inside a mysterious anarchist group. One of the more symbolic characters of the story is Sunday. Sunday is a very intricate character and Chesterton decodes Sunday in a very spiritual way. He is portrayed in a very interesting way. Chesterton suggests ideas of that of which Sunday represents. In the book The Man Who Was Thursday, takes place in London, in the early 1900's. It stars the main character Syme. Syme is a poet who was recruited to a secret police force. The police force that he is recruited into is looking to stop an anarchy group. He gets into the organization and becomes a top member of the group. He is sworn to not tell the police about the group by a fellow poet named Gregory. The top member Sunday has organized this anarchy group and has named the top members of the group after the days of the week. Thursday or Syme, learns that the other days of the week members are also undercover police officers. By the time he figures this out, the whole town has turned on them as anarchists. Even through everything Thursday never breaks his word and tells the police of the group. In the end he is rewarded for keeping his word and staying true., but who is Sunday? Sunday, portrayed by Chesterton in once sentence can be described as a larger than life man. Not only large in the physical sense but in a spiritual sense. In the book Chesterton...
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...Dahl shows this in “The Boy Who Talked With Animals,” when on a vacation in Kingston Jamaica, a little boy, David, tries to save a turtle, and that leads society to rethink what they have been doing. Since the little boy is motivated by compassion his decision to stand up t a crowd of men creates an understanding by the end of the story. In the story, David is shown as a young boy instead of a man to represent innocence. When the family of three first arries, David calls out to his dad to do something, but simply, the reply was,”I can’t do that David...It isn’t any of our business” (Dahl 7). Although David understands he needs help, he doesn’t understand that the world is not perfect and and not everything can go his way, all the time. He is losing innocence, but he is still a child with a lot of world to learn. If the author would have used a man, the idea that not fully understanding the world affects how a person impacts society would not be as strong....
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...is the male man. 2) God’s original purpose is to extend his Heavenly kingdom to Earth. He wanted to colonize earth with heaven; he wanted to extend his invisible kingdom to this visible earth. 3) God’s goal was to fill the earth with the culture of heaven. When a kingdom colonizes a territory, it fills the territory with its culture. 4) One of the great mistakes of the church is it has reversed God’s program. It preoccupies people to leave earth, when in fact the instruction was to occupy till He comes. 5) Man was never created to dominate other men, but to dominate earth. You and I were created to dominate the resources of earth in the area of gifting. God gave all of us dominion, not over people, not even over your wife. 6) Discovery of your purpose is the source of your personal leadership. Leadership has to do with self discovery than it has to do with leading people. True leaders never seek followers, followers are attracted to the gift of the leader. 7) Vision is a preview of your purpose. 8) Man is spirit and spirits have no gender. You’ll never find in the Bible a reference to a male/female spirit. God took the first man, and put him in a body, and the first body God made was a male. Man comes in two models: male and female. 9) God only made only 1-human from the soil and he never went back. Not even women came from the soil. Out of the male body God pulled out a woman. God gave the woman the instruction to be an incubator for the man. 10) Wherever...
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...our text book, “The Boxer” written by Paul Simon and Bruce Woodley is a ballad. This ballad is about a young boy leaving home for the first time and is on his own. You will learn about a young boy who left his home and family to live his life as a man. As he begins his journey into adulthood he found it hard to find a job in the big city. During his journey all the doors that lead to trouble and a ruff life was open to him but all the doors that lead to the correct way of life for him seemed to be close but he continue to complete his journey to become a man that could be respected by his family. The part that sticks out to me is the first verses of the poem “Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest”. These one verse reminds me about the decisions I made when I was out on my own becoming an adult, I had so many people trying to get me to do the wrong thing because it looked cool but I was able to hear what they was saying and disregard following the temptation and follow the road I needed to follow in order for me to do the right thing as a woman. Now we see the strong young man doing all he can to find a job but he gets no offers but the offers of the street life as the whores of the streets offer themselves to him. This is another trap to get him to make the wrong choice again but the young man would fall for the bait because he was so lonesome, this is a bait most men will always fall for because within your journey of adult hood you...
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