Essay on A Tale of Two Cities Dialectical Journal

People argue against Goldhagen’s claim, that the German society was anti-Semitic, by pointing out that after World War II, the Germans no longer hated the Jews and made laws to protect them. Goldhagen rebuts this argument by stating, “Germans, after the war, were castigated by the world for committing the greatest crime in history…The Allies denuded Germany’s institutional structures, replaced the dictatorship with democracy and revamped the education system” (Weinstein 2). So after the war, they realized their fallacies and had to change their views.

From the time where Elie had to decide to fight for his father’s life, to the time where he questioned his beliefs, Elie has had to make many life-changing decisions. As some of his decisions left negative consequences, some were left a positive outcome. In the end, all the decisions Elie had made in the camps has made his life miserable or at its best. For better or for worse, the events that Elie encountered makes his life unforgettable as realizes there was more to life than he had thought of

This shows Elie’s change in his thoughts on God and having faith. At the beginning of the story, Elie strives to be a spiritual kid and is fascinated by learning about God. He goes behind his father's back to learn about God with Moishe the Beadle, and has intense prayers everyday which he cries during. However, he becomes bitter towards God, angry about all the pain he has inflicted on the Jewish race. This change in perspective was brought on by the torture, abuse, and inhumane treatment by the Nazis. It causes Elie to question how God, who is supposed to be helpful and good, could ever allow such horror. This connects to loss, and how the traumatic

Elie experienced many changes, as a person while he was in Auschwitz. Before Elie was sent to Auschwitz, he was just a small naive child that new very little

Fire! Burning bodies everywhere engulfing your eyes with sights never to be forgotten. The pain and suffering of those without sin. The hatred and sadness of it all. Just breaking the surface of what happened in the book Night. Different people of religions or races are being put into concentration camps, going through the hardest times of their lives. The author has a great use of repetition throughout the book giving a more in depth feeling of the characters actions and thoughts. The tone cannot be described as it changes drastically as the book unfolds, however, it gives a great incentive on the characters point of view in different situations. In addition, the irony in the book is greatly used by the difference in opinions that once were beloved but then were diminished in stature. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses tone, repetition, and irony to illustrate the loss of faith from unbearable circumstance.

Dickens uses Carton to symbolize resurrection in numerous parts of the book. "I am the resurrection," Carton calls himself. Dickens uses this specific character to symbolize that because of how Carton got Charles Darnay out of prison, and saved him from death therefore he symbolically resurrected him, by saving his life.

In Dover, Mr lowrey takes a room at the Royal George Hotel. The 17-year-old Lucie Manette arrives that same afternoon, having received vague instructions to meet a Tellson's Bank employee at the Royal George Hotel regarding some business of her "long dead" father. Though he describes his news as just a "business matter," Mr. Lorry struggles with his emotions as he explains the "story of one of our customers"—Lucie's father, Dr. Manette.

The mental aspect of dehumanization seemed to cut as sharply as any weapon used by the Nazis. Adolescent Eliezer seemed to have a strong spiritual connection before he endured life in the concentration. This seemed to be the case as he shared that at an early age, he found a master named moishe to teach him Kabbalah. The two would meet every evening and remain in the synagogue long after the faithful had gone (pgs.4-5). Conversely, after he and his family endured the camps, he began to make statements such as, “ Why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because he caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves?( Wiesel 67). Eliezer being the faithful young man he is, never would consider words like those in his vocabulary. Along with the narrator’s religious pathing fading away in the midst of the camp. Eliezer and the rest of the Jewish civilians in the camp have to withstand the unkempt conditions of the bunks in which is the same place they sleep eat ,and release their bodily fluids. By this, I can look up to Eliezer, because knowing myself. I would not be able endure one second of being in the bunks, let alone years just as the narrator and his father had to

During his time in the concentration camps, Elie’s outlook on life shifted to a very pessimistic attitude, showing emotions and actions including rebellion, forgetfulness of humane treatment, and selfishness. Elie shows rebellion early in the Holocaust at the Solemn Service, a jewish ceremony, by thinking, “Blessed be God’s name? Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled” (Wiesel 67). Elie had already shifted his view on his religion and faith in God. After witnessing some of the traumas of the concentration camps, Elie questioned what he did to deserve such treatment. Therefore, he began to rebel against what he had grown up learning and believing. Not only had Elie’s beliefs changed, his lifestyle changed as well. When Elie’s foot swelled, he was sent to the doctor, where they put him “...in a bed with white sheets. I [he] had forgotten that people slept in sheets” (Wiesel 78). Many of the luxuries that Elie may have taken for granted have been stripped of their lives, leaving Elie and the other victims on a thin line between survival and death. By explaining that he forgot about many of these common luxuries, Elie emphasizes the inhumane treatment the victims of the Holocaust were put through on a daily basis.

Everyone experiences emotional and physiological obstacles in their life. However, these obstacles are incomparable to the magnitude of the obstacles the prisoners of the Holocaust faced every day. In his memoir, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, illustrates the horrors of the concentration camps and their mental tool. Over the course of Night, Wiesel demonstrates, that exposure to an uncaring, hostile world leads to destruction of faith and identity.

Alexander Betancourt Feb, 24 2017 Period 3 Night Essay I am Adelchi Schmidt a Nazi solder. I was placed in charge of getting all the Jew’s on to the cattle cars to be taken to Auschwitz. It will be a long and painful journey of them and most of them will not last the trip. They will all be unloaded at the camp and then placed to stay for a short time until we kill them. The sight of all the Jews being loaded on the train is truly a sad disturbing. I must fallow the orders of my officers. As I was loading Jews on the train one of them tried to fight it. We told him to stop or he would be killed. But he didn’t stop screaming for his wife and daughters. I had to shoot him in the head and continue the proses of getting everyone in to the camps.

The novel shows a dialectical structure that through this the author speaks of two different worlds, the city and the field. Also included are the inhabitants who seem to have the way of thinking and opposite behaviors. However, the creatures that inhabit these different worlds are essentially the same: complex and contradictory, immersed in the emptiness that exists in them and pensioners of a lacerating solitude. The characters are aggressive and devious beings; incapable of communicating with their fellow men, but that is not strange that these isolated beings, surrounded by a sea of silence. They find no way to escape from their own reclusion and escape of theirs fears.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness… it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing behind us…”

For this quote the german officer is extremely careless and doesn't see a difference in treating people like animals. The German would have no thoughts or doubts about shooting them if one person went missing. He would care if he just killed 80 innocent children, men, or women. I am amazed that he would care about killing all of these people. How does the German officer's family feel about this? Are they German officer's too? Are they against the thought of being a German officer or do they have no thought about doing what a German officer does? I feel that the people are already frightened enough that they are in the cart going to a place that they don't realize what is going to happen. Now they are told if one person is missing, all of them

In the novel "A Tale of Two Cities" Charles Dickens describes "the best of times [and] the worst of times" (1) of the characters. France and England struggle through political confusion, which is one of the most disturbing periods of history. On the other hand, for the characters of the novel, these are the times of rebirth and revival. The author conveys the dual nature of this epoch by contrasting representations of light and dark, chaos and stability, doom and hope with the use of setting, characterization, foreshadowing, symbolism, and plot set up.