Honors English II Essay Questions for Night by Elie Wiesel Directions: In paragraph form‚ you need to answer THREE of the following essay questions. There are six essay questions‚ but you will only complete three; you choose which prompts you wish to respond to. You must provide specific examples from the story. If a question has to be answered in terms of how you feel about something I expect MUCH more than "I don’t like it." One paragraph responses will not earn full credit. I want LONG‚ DETAILED
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Essay Ideas for Elie Wiesel’s Night 1. Good to Brutal: One of the most tragic themes in Night is Eliezer’s discovery of the way that atrocities and cruel treatment can turn good people into brutes. Does he himself escape this fate? Use specific events to convey your opinion. 2. Advocacy from Experience: Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his championing of human rights around the world. How might his advocacy for human rights have grown out of his Holocaust experiences? What are
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Greek culture embodied specific family ideals that are represented in The Wanderings of Odysseus through Odysseus’s family structure. As he attempts to return home to Ithaca‚ his wife is left to tend to the house for seven long years. She must supervise her servants‚ as the reader sees in Chapter 5‚ Telemachus Seeks His Father. This is the first time that readers are introduced to Odysseus’s family and their whereabouts at the time of the story. According to The Civilizations of The Greeks‚ “A wife
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Loyalty between Father and Son Relationships “O cursed spite‚/ That ever I was born to set it right!” (Hamlet 1.5.197-198). These words of Hamlet set the tone for the theme of revenge in the play Hamlet. This reoccurring theme arises through the father and son relationships in the course of the play. The characters Hamlet‚ Laertes and Fortinbras all experience the loss of their fathers‚ and all‚ as loyal sons‚ must avenge them. In each case‚ the execution of their plans is different‚ and
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somewhat irrational. However in Genesis 11-22‚ God has just cause and reason for all of his divine intervention with humankind. It is important to examine God’s objectives and motives behind his actions as we interpret the bible. Through close examination of “Dei Verbum” by Pope Paul VI‚ “The Book of Genesis”‚ and “Interpretation of the Book of Genesis” by Father Tadros Malaty‚ it is apparent that God offers his love and salvation to all those deserving of it and imposes judgment on all those who do
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When God spoke through Elie it had other importance as well. It shows that God is suffering with his people. Saying that God is on the gallows with the child shows that He is not finding pleasure in the actions of the Holocaust. Actually‚ God is unimaginably saddened and in pain because of it‚ much like the child on the gallows. This realization should comfort Elie and help him through this terrible and horrendous situation that he is in. Unfortunately‚ Elie is not comforted by these experiences
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1900 "Though‚ once as black as charcoal‚ the Rev. Mr. Draper is now white. His people say that his color was changed in answer to prayer. . Many years ago Draper was employed by a fair-skinned man‚ and he was often heard to remark that if he could only be white like his employer‚ he would be happy. While in the white man’s service Draper ’experienced’ religion." {WR Oct 1 1900 2706} [Michael Jackson ceased to be a Jehovah’s Witness in 1987] 1901 "’It too often happens that‚ while the negro rapidly
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Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel: Similarities and Differences in Telling About the Holocaust The Holocaust was a horrific time in history; and those who survived it‚ will never forget it. Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi are two survivors of the Holocaust and both have made the decision to educate and write about the Holocaust. Wiesel and Levi are two different people‚ with different lives before the war. But‚ while in concentration camps they shared similar horrors. Levi and Wiesel transcribed the horror
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The Road: How does the father and son’s relationship change through the book? One theme in The Road is paternal love; this is the relationship between the father and his son. Their bond plays a powerful part in the novel and impacts the decisions made during their journey. The two protagonists remain unnamed in the book‚ giving their familial relationship their full identity. This makes their relationship relatable to any parent and child bond outside of the novel. It is clear that they only
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Relationships in Death of a Salesman The father son relationships of Willy‚ Biff‚ and Happy in Death of a Salesman change throughout the play. Willy wanted his sons to be well liked and successful even from any early age. As adults Biff and Happy are not the successful men their father wanted and Willy will not accept who they are. He lies to himself by exaggerating his sons’ jobs and ambitions. Willy will not accept the truth. Willy’s flashbacks show why relationships are strained as well as the
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