A Child's ROM-Night: A Short Story

In front of them was a large room with a bunk bed, a desk, a bulletin board, a briefcase, and a closet. A vault stood in the back corner.

U.S. president Abraham Lincoln claims “ Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.” Applying this statement to our society, this simile suggests that the realities are always different and hidden behind the appearance. In Night written by Elie Wiesel and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, the authors use numerous situational ironies, dramatic setting changes and various points of view to illustrate that the reality of people and situations may not always mirror the appearance that they reflect.

Ready Player One hits some of the same situations as in the holocaust or for the book that we read “Night” like taking people spread out over a good area and combining them into a small dense area. They both also touch on the topic of how when someone is killed or something is blown up now one raises an eyebrow or if they do no one does anything about it.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum states that "During the Holocaust up to 6 million Jews were rounded up and killed"(Documenting numbers). The Holocaust had many groups of people involved, Adalf Hitler, the Germans, European Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals. The Holocaust was when the Germans believed they were a master Aryan race and wanted to get rid of everyone who wasn’t. It took place in all of Europe and lasted from 1933-1945.Through a variety of texts, people can learn more about the Holocaust. The book Night is an autobiography of holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, the poem "To The Little Polish Boy" is about a bystander to the Holocaust. These texts made me realize how much the Nazi's changed the views and ways of life of all the people they prosecuted.

Lisa often gets frustrated when trying to play with other children. She takes toys from their hands and even hits children with the toys.

In Germany and Eastern Europe the Holocaust was started by Adolf Hitler because he disliked the Jews. He thought they caused the Great Depression which was from the collapse of the stock market. Also in Night by Elie Wiesel, he has seen hundreds of innocent people die before his eyes. During the holocaust many Jews died under the Nazis rule in Germany because the Germans didn't like them because of what they did. Many people died because of the conflict continuing between the Nazi's and Jews. The texts will be explained from the poem "Never Shall I Forget" by Elie Wiesel and "The Little Polish Boy" by Peter Fischl. These explain what it was like to be a Jew in captivity for many days and not having enough to eat, drink or sleep. But in Fischl's poem "The Little Polish Boy" this explains what it feels like to not speak up for other people. One personal truth, I have gained through studying these texts is that Hitler wanted justice for all Jews because he didn't want people that weren't like him alive.

James, Catherine and Elizabeth walked to their bedrooms. William tucked-in the children, and walked back downstairs. He found Mary in the kitchen reorganizing the cabinets.

A poem can paint a thousand images in one’s mind. The poem, Acquainted with the Night, presents a graphic picture of a lonely, depressed man, who is possibly an insomniac, walking the streets on a sad, rainy night .This poem shows the different emotions that the author goes through in order to cope with heartbreak. The poem is aimed at the world in general, and the themes of depression, loneliness, and sadness prevails across the entire poem. The poem follows the format with 3-line stanzas and a scheme of rhyming aba bcb cdc dad aa. This poem proves that the author is going through turmoil within himself and is struggling as the love of his life has moved on with no trace like a thief in the night. The author starts the Poem off as follows;

-David still looking at Mal removes his own shorts; Mal looks over at the shorts hanging carelessly on David's index finger then back at David.

In Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Christopher Boone the protagonist has suggested that he is very similar to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Character, Sherlock Holmes.

(Santiago feels so shocked that he slowly sits down on the sofa with fear and doubt.)

Christopher- In the beginning of the novel Christopher finds a dog dying in Mrs. Shear’s yard when she looks to see Christopher on top off the dog she calls the police. When telling them his innocent he launches an investigation to find the person that killed the dog. Christopher and his father were very close ever science he was a child. Christopher was told that his mother died, but really the mother and the neighbor Mr. Shears had an affair. Which lead his father to tell him that she died from a heart attack. His mother has always been alive and sending him letters which his

The novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time gives the reader an inside look on what life is like for a person with autism through their eyes. In the video clip Marianne Elliott, the director of the play, says, “Mark Haddon deliberately didn’t explain or describe who Christopher was.” Mark Haddon, the author, did not tell us that Christopher had Asperger’s because he wanted to focus on difference not on disability. By Haddon telling this story from the point of view of Christopher, the reader got to experience everyday life as a person with Asperger’s would. The reader got to be inside the mind of Christopher and compare and contrast their life to his.

I think the purpose Haddon wrote “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” is that it is ok even if you are different. Everyone is not the same and it is ok for people to be different. In the book, I learned about how Christopher struggled and got over it because of who he is. Christopher struggled with many challenges like trying to become independent, trying to discover who murdered Wellington, A level math, and other tough situations that took place as he was working. Christopher's neighbor, Mrs. Shear's dog named Wellington was recently murdered. Christopher is a child, who is different from other, the students at his school, including himself, is classified as “Special needs.” Special needs mean that people have difficulty in

Families are expected to support each other through the worst of times. But in A Long Day’s Journey into Night the mother, Mary, struggles with an addiction to morphine and the only empathy she receives is from her youngest son, Edmund. Edmund is ill with Tuberculosis and he understands his mother more than his brother, Jamie, and father, James. Mary’s older son, Jamie, and her husband did want her to conquer her addiction but they act as if she should be able to beat her addiction within minutes. Edmund on the other hand tries to show her compassion and let her take her time. Jamie and James are always watching Mary and Edmund to make sure Mary doesn’t fall back into her morphine addiction and that Edmund doesn’t cause himself to become sicker by drinking alcohol. The constant feeling of being observed causes both Mary and Edmund to find their own home in the fog. The fog was a shield to them that made them feel safer and more relaxed. There is something about their illnesses that allows Edmund to feel a sense of affinity for his mother. The compassion Edmund shows Mary is unique because he can relate to everything that she is going through and the leniency encourages Mary to overcome her addiction.