Lina Sue Park’s emotive narrative A Long Walk to Water is based on Salva Dut’s real life conflicts, highlighting his tenacity through the adversity that he faces. Furthermore, it was able to capture the intolerable levels of privation that refugees experience. The eleven-year-old protagonist of the narrative, Salva, has been isolated from the rest of his family. Having to walk from his village to a refugee camp, he suffers greatly from thirst and hunger. Experiencing more hardship, devastation, and
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“To live with ghosts requires solitude.” is a quote from Canadian author Anne Michaels's’ novel Fugitive Pieces. This novel follows the story of a Jewish boy named Jakob whose entire family was killed or captured by the Nazis during World War II. These ghosts he lives with are the memories of seeing his parents killed and sister taken from him. Unable to move past these memories, he lives a life of solitude and curiosity over where his sister was taken and if she survived. This quote expresses the
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A Torch Against the Night A Torch Against the Night has no competition, it is simply the best YA Fantasy of the year. An Ember in the Ashes was merely a prelude to the sinister follow up. The story remains about oppression, but unlike the first book this is where readers could vividly see the resistance at first hand. The stakes are higher. There is more gore, and violence. My heart is very delighted with the intricate political prose, but there are truths on it as well that parallels our past
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took action by going into hiding,she stays more positive doing something about it. As these works show, taking action, taking control of the conflict is the best way to respond to it, taking action is taking control of your life, your own future. Elie Wiesel gives a speech about how he survived of the Auschwitz
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heart of the desert" (Wiesel 37). Is better than saying we were tired in the concentration camp therefore the reader can understand it more. They realize how tired and broken they were without Wiesel actually saying that. Figurative language makes books more interesting, for example, "We can't let them kill us like that, like cattle in the slaughterhouse." This simile from the book reveals to the readers how careless the SS officers were when it came to killing people. If Wiesel wasn't going to use
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A variety of cultures associate mayhem and evil with night, including the ancient Aryans who personified nighttime. However, the Rig Veda reveals a second side to Night’s personality that contradicts her frightening demeanor. The goddess is not completely evil, but she is not completely pure either. The vibrant imagery in this hymn casts Night as a fearsome conqueror with benevolent intentions. Night’s presence comes with a sense of peril and panic, as her talents strike fear into the hearts of
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Elie Weisel has a lot of credibility by how strong he was, by what he experienced during the holocaust. This quote creates the feeling of horror and sadness and it can help let everyone kind of understand the terrors of what those Jews went through. The tragic experience of the holocaust helped triggered emotions to all the audience. He used logic to as the hard-hitting questions about the unresponsiveness and repudiation among the Leaders of American and the people living here. All he wanted to
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tormentor, never the tormented”(Wiesel, 56). Elie Wiesel is a holocaust survivor who received the Nobel Peace Prize Award. He not only speaks to encourage you to raise your voice to conflict but to encourage you to do what it takes to stop conflict and never lose hope. Elie Wiesel was a 15-year-old Jew when his family and himself were deported to a concentration camp in Auschwitz. His younger 3 sisters and mother died at the camp in Auschwitz while his father and Wiesel were moved to another camp in
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Title of Your Report Elie Wiesel’s novel Night, he lies to his cousin Stein and tells his family is alive when they really are not. Elie goes through a sad time and does not want his cousin to be any sadder. Although he made the choice to lie to Stein, it is never okay to lie because a person can get in trouble, it is not nice, and it makes people not trust that person anymore. The first reason someone should not lie is because they can get in trouble. A person can get in trouble for lying at
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Personal Response One portion of narration in Night, that I believe “paints a dark and angry picture of human nature” is when Rabbi Eliahou's son abandoned his father during their run, because his son started to see Rabbi as a burden. This memoir allows this darker side of human nature to emerge because it shows how a human being’s mentality can push one to selfishness and unthoughtfulness. In that point of the book, many prisoners were suffering and struggling to survive day by day at the concentration
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