8/1/11 AP World History Book Report Elie Wiesel’s Night is a terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horrors that turned between 11 to 17 million people into agonized witnesses to the deaths of their families and friends. I chose this book to read because I had heard from numerous people that it was "the best book about the Holocaust I could ever read" . I read it and found out that it went into much more detail than some of the other Holocaust books I had read. This book was extremely powerful
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his book “Night”‚ Elie Wiesel‚ who was separated from his mother and sister‚ describes his experiences and the inhumane conditions he endured at the concentration camps at the hand of German officers. As a result of his experiences during the Holocaust‚ Elie Wiesel changes from a religious‚ sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead‚ unemotional man. In spite of Elie Wiesel strong faith in the beginning of the memoir‚ his faith at the end of the memoir dies. Elie Wiesel faced many
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Analysis of a Quote from The Iliad Theme: Fate Quote: “One more thing-take it to heart‚ I urge you You too‚ you won’t live long yourself‚ I swear. Already I see them looming beside you-death and the strong force of fate‚ to bring you down at the hands of Aeacus’ great royal son… Achilles!” (p. 440‚ Book 16) Homer‚ Robert Fagles‚ and Bernard MacGregor Walker. Knox. The Iliad. New York: Penguin‚ 1991. Print. Context: This quote is taken from the end
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Chapter I QUOTE; It was‚ of course‚ a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood‚ and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. As Angela’s Ashes opens‚ Frank describes how his parents meet and marry in New York‚ then eventually move back to Ireland with their four sons. He characterizes his upbringing as a typical “miserable Irish Catholic childhood‚” complete with a drunken father
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"final solution" to the "Jewish problem"‚ thus establishing a pure German race. Much of the brutal killings and torturous acts took place in the concentration camps. Concentration camps were used to confine millions of Jews as a group to be cleansed from the German nation. Communists‚ Gypsies‚ homosexuals‚ and other groups of people considered undesirable according to Nazi principles‚ and anyone who opposed the government‚ were also placed in concentration camps. These prisoners were mostly beaten
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anti-social person. As it stated in the story “the only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly‚ deeply uninteresting people.”(John Green‚ Pg:4). This quote proves how he really didn’t have basically any friends. Miles shows in this quote how he was independent at school and really wasn’t interested in making friends. The two people that showed up really weren’t Miles friends since he said they were “deeply uninteresting people”‚ he just considered
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¨He was shaking me and I wished he’d stop. ¨ (pg.6) is one of the quotes from the story ¨The Outsiders¨ proving that Ponyboy who is the main character of the story‚ is more sensitive than tough. Ponyboy is raised by his brothers who are pretty tough so he is expected to be the same. The quote up above shows that Ponyboy is sensitive because he was shaking and that is a sign of sensitivity and fear. With all of the evidence from the book‚ it has proved that Ponyboy is more sensitive than tough.
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Wiesel and McBride’s Hindering Religious Past Religion is one of the many aspects that make up a person’s identity. Religion plays a major role in the search for identity of Ruth McBride‚ in James McBride’s The Color of Water‚ and Elie Wiesel‚ in his memoir‚ Night. Elie is tortured an dehumanized in concentration camps because he’s a Jew. He was seen as inferior because of his religion. Ruth was restricted from doing what her heart truly believed in because she was controlled by her Jewish faith
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Civil Disobedience My favorite quote from the first couple of paragraphs was‚“ I think we should be men first‚ and subjects after.” I believe Thoreau’s thinking behind this quote was men were treated as government’s projects‚ instead of being themselves. From this quote the reader is able to see how men had no freedom and were treated like slaves of the government. They were forced to do things the government wanted them to do‚ instead of doing things they liked to do. Thoreau also shows that
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Fonquello Gardner 03/23/2015 Introduction to Fiction Discuss the following questions using examples/ quotes from “Tots” and “Androids” “Can a story be true‚ even if it isn’t?” Fiction is the classification for any creative informational work it is almost‚ always a narrative. From the quote “ can a story be true‚ even if it isn’t?” what comes to mind is the curiosity of what- ifs? A story can be as good as reality and reading a great story can take a reader to another world where it can actually
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