The Stranger Ch. 1&2 1. Meursault visited his mother so infrequently because it was too out of the way and because it killed an entire day. 2. It is odd that Madame Meursault desired a religious burial because during her life‚ she was not religious at all. 3. Meursault doesn’t want to see inside the casket because he doesn’t want to see his mother dead. He would respond this way because he wants his last memories of his mother to be of her alive. I think that it is perfectly normal because
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In the article “The Narrator and the Bourgeois Community in ‘Madame Bovary’‚” written by Leo Bersai‚ he discusses how “Flaubert maintains a dual position” in the novel Madame Bovary. Bersai states that Flaubert make Emma’s dreams seem important and gives it “dignity” but at the same time ridicules her fantasies. Bersani also writes that Flaubert detaches himself entirely from the community that he writes about. Although there are parts of the
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Both‚ Madame Loisel and the daughter from two kinds‚ find themselves in similar situations. The situations seem different but in reality they aren’t‚ as both of them are expected to do certain things‚ the only different is that the daughter from to kinds in forced to do thing and Madame Loisel just feel like she had to do or to have a certain thing. The difference in the expectations between the two characters‚ is made by making one character want a certain thing‚ and the other to be forces to do
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Owen and De Maupassant both write with ambiguous authorial voice to portray different aspects of the central characters. ‘The Soldier’ is a man who has gone through a dramatic‚ life changing subversion whilst ‘Madam Loisel’ One might be inclined to think that both the authors of the two short stories write to make the reader feel unsympathetic and therefore negative towards the main character of each story. Or on the other hand‚ they might both write sympathetically about each character in order
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and everybody is hungry and thirsty. During the journey‚ Madame Schachter‚ a woman of about fifty‚ had gone out of her mind. The separation and the oppressive treatment had completely broken her.by the third night of their trip‚ while everyone is asleep‚ she cried‚ “Fire! I can see a fire! I can see a fire!” Her screams became sickening in the ears of the other deportees and made them fear of the worst. Some tried to calm Madame Schachter and the others tied her up‚ gagged her and beat her into
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Samuel Lechuga Bernstein English 9 honors/Pre-AP/Period 1 25 April 2013 Section 3 1) F-Tzipora 2) G-Stein of Antwerp 3) D-Madame Schachter 4) B-Moshe the Beadle 5) 6) H-Dr. Menglele 7) D- Madame Schachter 8) B- Moshe the Beadle 9) C- Mr. Wiesel 10) B-Moshe the Beadle Section 4 1. Holocaust- A great or complete devastation or destruction‚ especially by fire. 2. Synagogue- A synagogue is a Jewish house of worship‚ often having facilities for religious
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But one main part where he uses it‚ is to describe the flames. Madame Schachter has many outburst when she got visions about fire and flames. “Jews‚ listen to me! I can see a fire! There are huge flames! It is a furnace!” (Wiesel 34). She cries. The whole entire time she had the visions‚ everyone thought that she was delusional. As the Jews arrived to the concentration camp‚ they had realized a whole new side to life. Madame Schachter was right. Wiesel uses flashback throughout “Night” to briefly
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alive that they had no time to keep up with how many days they had been gone from their home‚ or what the date was on that certain day. The darkness of night characterizes the train ride to Auschwitz when Madame Schachter started to act insane. Elie had said in his book that‚ “Madame Schachter had gone out of her mind. On the first day of the journey she had already begun the moan and to keep asking why she had been separated from her family. As time went on‚ her cried grew hysterical.”(Page 16)
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(page 15). Anyone who was not able to be transported was killed on the spot. Many Jews were able to escape through air holes‚ only to be shot immediately or killed later that night. Though some escaped‚ some stayed in the wagons and went mad like Madame Schachter‚ “ On the second night‚ while we slept‚ some of us sitting one against the other and some standing‚ a piercing cry split the silence: ‘Fire! I can see a fire! I can see a fire!’” (page
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overall effect of Wiesel’s language. What valuable lessons did you personally find in the reading of this memoir? Use evidence! How do the people Wiesel interacts with strengthen or diminish his hope and desire to live? Talk about his father‚ Madame Schachter‚ Juliek (the violin player)‚ the French girl‚ Rabbi Eliahou & his son‚ the Nazis. Which of their actions touched you the most? How does Wiesel’s writing style strengthen his account? Use evidence to explain. Why is this book titled Night
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