During Winter, the prisoners felt true bitter cold. Because of the incredibly cool weather, Eliezer’s foot swelled. He consulted a fellow Jew, a doctor prior to imprisonment, and is told that he needs immediate operation to prevent amputation. In the hospital, Eliezer was fed properly and didn’t have to work. After he awakened from his operation, Eliezer was afraid to ask the doctor if his leg has been amputated, but the doctor assured him that “in two weeks you'll be fully recovered… able to walk like the others.” (page 80). Two days after his operation, Eliezer heard that the front was advancing to Buna, and that very day the camp was ordered to evacuate. Hospital occupants were not to be evacuated, however, and Eliezer worries that they…
I genuinely did not expect to learn this much from the book Unbroken. The story of Louie Zamperini was unexpectedly much more understandable and relatable than I first imagined. Seeing the main character was a former war hero, I found it surprising I was able to connect to him as I happen to be fourteen. In my opinion, readers can easily compare similar situations in their life, regardless of their age. A point often overlooked, Louie is a true survivor. He was stranded forty-seven days on a crammed raft, as well as beaten without remorse at a prison camp for two years. Louie was stripped of his friends as he watched them either be transferred or slowly die. He witnessed many accounts of sexual abuse to innocent and helpless animals, as well…
Elie and his father march to Gleiwitz and are crammed into barracks. They are soon crowded into cattle cars of 100. Fights broke out over pieces of bread that were thrown into the cars by Germans. Those who died were thrown off the train. Only twelve remained in Elie’s car when he and his father arrived at Buchenwald.…
Throughout the novella I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, Robert Neville, the last human who is immune to this disease, is an anti-hero. For instance, towards the end of the story, during his state of confusion after he woke up, he felt pain that he had not ever felt before and thought that it must mean it was the end and said to himself ‘’I am going to die’’ (p.164). This statement shows that he accepts that his life will end here and he will not try to fight it in any way in order to continue surviving. In addition to this, after he realizes where he is and what happened, Ruth came to check on him and asks him why he did not leave beforehand like she told him to in the letter she left him. Robert explained to her ‘’I…couldn’t […] I almost…
On the evening of Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) the Jews in Buna gather for a prayer. Eliezer, who once lived for prayer and religious study, rebels against this. He feels that humans are, in a sense, greater than God, stronger than God, to still pray to a God who allows such horrors. "I was the accuser, God the accused……
In the book Speak written by Laurie Halse Anderson, Psychological forces such as depression, anxiety, trauma and fear can control people's emotions and actions, rather than themselves controlling their emotions and actions. In the book Speak, Melinda faces a major trauma causing her emotions to control her life instead of her controlling her own life such as depression controls her emotions, fear controls her actions and anxiety controls her social life.…
Before the soldiers arrived in the town, Moishe the Beadle had already warned them of the cruelty and injustice he faced through the hands of the Nazis. The citizens, not wanting to believe him, brushed it off. When the German soldiers came, "with their steel helmets and their death’s…
When you read pieces of literature, what do you notice they have in common? You might notice they all have lessons. Authors depict their characters to face conflicts and to cope, for example Eliezer Wiesel from the novel Night and Holden Caulfield from the novel The Catcher in the Rye. Throughout the stories the two young men experience the hard parts of life and learn how to face them. To cope with someone or something the two characters faced a transformation that would mark their lives. In the two books our protagonists learn how to approach life in the hardest moments.…
In the 1940’s, Jews were living a rough life. Wiesel decided to share his story. Throughout his teen years, he was in and out of many concentration camps along with a handful of others. Eliezer Wiesel’s novel night describes the harsh journey through the holocaust and explains that severe suffering can cause a reversal in relationships.…
In the beginning of the story life is going on normally, the Jews were not afraid of the Nazi party yet. They describe a poor beadle named Moishe. He was soon sent to a “work” camp by the germans. When he came back he described the morbid events that happened the camp. This quote is one of the descriptions of what they did to the Jews.…
Liesel Meminger suffers many struggles in her life, from the death of brother to the loss of her family, to the worry and hate she has for Hitler and everything he represents. In the beginning of the novel, she is a very young girl dealing with very grown-up situations, and yet she somehow manages to find beauty in all that she experiences. With every loss, Liesel also gains something. With every hardship, she also finds joy. Leisel struggles with the problems that Hitler brings to the country. She lives in a life of brutality yet she stills finds beauty in the world through words.…
At the beginning of Night, Elie Wiesel delineates Moishe the Beadle’s recount of what had happened to him when all of the foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet. Moishe told Elie of how, “Without passion or haste, (the Gestapo)…
What if the president of the United states decided to kill all of one religion. The World War ll Holocaust began with Hitler wanting to kill all the jews. One of the jew was Elie Wiesel’s who later wrote a book about his experiences. At the beginning of the story Elie did not believe he was real he thought it was all a lie. Throughout the story he slowly started seeing that god was real. Elie talked to more and more people who believed in God. Elie spoke to Moishe the Beatle who helped him learn more about his religion. Elie Wiesel’s changed his view on God throughout the memoir and how it affected his identity.…
In Section 1 of Night, Wiesel uses imagery and direct characterization to develop the reader’s impression of Moishe the Beadle through Wiesel’s eyes. Although at first glance Moishe may seem insignificant, He was described from the very beginning of the section because the advice and teachings that he had given Elie will stick with him for the rest of his life.…
Hamlеt, writtеn by William Shakеspеarе, is a classic tragеdy of dеath and rеvеngе that occurs in Dеnmark in thе sixtееnth cеntury. Thе play bеgins with Hamlеt rеturning to Еlsinorе Castlе from thе Univеrsity for thе untimеly dеath of his fathеr. Hamlеt, thе Princе of Dеnmark, sееks rеvеngе upon his unclе who had murdеrеd his fathеr for thе crown. Hamlеt is distraught by thе dеath of his fathеr and his mothеr's ovеrhasty marriagе, which hе considеrs incеstuous.…