Analysis Of What Night Brings By Carla Trujillo

Over 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust, 1.1 million were children and 6 million were Jewish. In the novel titled Night by Elie Wiesel, it tells about a kid name Elie Wiesel and his experience during the Holocaust. This novel will will also explain his thoughts/feelings during this tragic event. During the tragic event, Elie Wiesel lost his mother when the Holocaust started and lost his father at the end of the Holocaust. Three qualities that contributed to Wiesel’s survival was his intelligence, when he hid his left arm, his bravery, when he refused to separate from his father during the selection, and his determination, when he decided to not stop running during the flee.

Another challenge that arises with the process of puberty is the loss of innocence. In the vignette, “The Family of Little Feet”, readers can see how Esperanza and her friends learn the disturbing price of beauty as they experience their first encounter with provocative remarks. During this encounter, a bum says“ Your little lemon shoes are so beautiful. But come closer, I can’t see very well. Come closer. Please… Rachel, you are prettier than a yellow taxicab. You know that?” (Cisneros 41). After this incident, readers can observe how the girls’ childhood game of dress up turned into a promiscuous encounter with the reality of becoming women. When girls make the transition from childhood to adulthood, their bodies will start to change, and with that comes sexual innuendos they have not heard until now. Usually, a child’s innocence is lost over the course of a few years, but unfortunately in Esperanza’s situation, she was cruelly taken advantage of. The vignette, “ Red Clowns”, is about how Esperanza is sexually abused against her will at a carnival. When Esperanza recounts the horrid experience she says, “The one who grabbed my by the arm, he wouldn’t let me go. He said I love you, Spanish girl, I love you, and pressed his sour mouth to mine” (Cisneros 100). After this traumatic assault, it can be inferred that Esperanza’s innocence

As a child, Roberta Bondi didn’t have a peaceful childhood while growing up. She had to struggle with her faith, calling God, father, and even her relationship with her own father. Roberta had unique personality compared to others such that her thinking was beyond what anyone might expect; in which the excitement of thinking beyond expectations made Roberta the person she was. Roberta was raised in a society where men were in control; however, she didn’t approve of such society due to her curiosity and not obeying what she’s been told. Roberta was not an easy and a calm child to handle, she caused trouble and her father’s expectations of her were high.

I went Into Elie Wiesel 's Night having read the book in various stages in my life. It seems to follow me through my schooling years. In junior high I read it in standard English class, just like any other book I would have read that year. In high school I read it for a project I was creating on World War II, looking at it from a more historical approach. Being a firsthand account of concentration camps made it a reliable source of historical information. But during previous times when I was reading, I never thought to take a look at it from a theological point of view. Doing so this time really opened my eyes to things and themes I hadn 't noticed during previous readings.

The book Night written by Ellie Wiesel is an autobiography about his experiences during the holocaust in 1944. He is a survivor and was only 12 at the time. Ellie had three sisters named Hilda, Bea and Tzipora. His parents ran a store in Transylvania where Ellie spent most of his childhood in. Ellie 's mentor who everyone referred to as Moishe the Beadle is poor men who taught and helped Ellie study the cabbala. Early in the war, Moishe was expelled from Sighet as well as all the other foreign Jews. A few months after, everything was back to normal for Ellie and everyone else. His teacher, Moishe the Beadle then returns from his near death experience and warns everyone that the Nazi will soon come after them. No one really listened to him and did not believe that stories he told or didn’t want to believe them. Soon after this, the anti-Semitic Measures had the entire Sighet Jews move into ghettos that were supervised. With everyone living in fear, the Wiesel family remained calm and did not complain once.

“No… we have a daughter, and I don’t want to break a holy vow” (Linmark 94). This is a perfect example of how religion has oppressed these people over time. Furthermore, this may contribute to the extreme discourse between the parents and the children throughout the novel. The children can see how religion has affected their parents as they are virtually brainwashed by their spiritual beliefs and the children wish to avoid the oppressions of this institution. They do so by using their language to rewrite traditional Catholic litany and hymns invoking other “cultural” saints to paint a picture of their lives and the lack of God’s presence that they feel.

With an abruptly vacant mom and a change of schools, francesca is caught in a situation where she no longer has a place to fit. "But God doesn't talk to me. He only talks to people like Mia. People he thinks are worth it. Because they have passion. They have something. I have nothing. I'm a waste of space." (Marchetta, 51) For the duration of the book, Francesca is constantly looking for a place to fit, and she finds temporary hapiness amongst few people yet a hole remains where her mother belongs. A relationaship she once found irritating, becomes a relationship she needs to feel wanted. It isn't until her mother begins to reinhabit the family's life, that francesca finally feels content in

Rodriguez argues that knowing English is an asset and his reluctance to learn lengthens his set of problems. He starts the narrative with illustrating his confinement and predisposition to failure in grade school. Rodriguez is forced learn English because of painful alienation in his home and school. In the beginning, Richard has a distaste for English while paradoxically if he would have accepted learning it sooner it would have been less painful. The underlying exalted virtue is flexibility to learn regardless of the discomfort. His persuasiveness is effective as he creates sympathy in the audience by depicting highly relatable emotions such as loneliness, unwillingness, and confusion.

Having blossomed from a child into a well-developed young lady, Rachel begins her new teenage ways of “paying too much attention to boy” (150). In the eyes of her grandmother, the worse aspects of her new behavior is labeled as being like her mother, but Rachel exploring her sexuality with males is a result of her loneliness and the lack of sense of self. Through grandmother's hate towards Nella; half of herself had been unconsciously rejected, and it in the novel Rachel says in regards to her sexual touching from John Bailey that he had made all of what is really me feel really good.” (150) These are cries of help from a young lady desperately trying to find someone who loves her as her in the all wrong ways, and this gets further displayed

The Holocaust was a mass genocide which killed six million European Jews by Hitler’s Nazi’s that lasted for 12 years. This mass killing event left a mark in history, this was an act against humanity. The book “Night” was a written perspective from Elie Wiesel, who was kept in one of the most dangerous camps with his family in Auschwitz, during the Holocaust. A letter was written by Regina Kandt to her lover while she was transitioning to a camp, and a photograph was taken during the Holocaust of the aftermath of the mass killing genocide. All of these sources connect to the loss of religious faith because everyone had a loss of hope the victims depending on their value of family and their relationships to survive.

It truly is surprising how a person can change so drastically over a series of events. People can be made into monsters over the murder or death over a loved one for example. Or can be turned to a person of great faith when they were an atheist. This is what happened to Elie and was one of the main conflicts of the story, “Night”. As you can see in the book he loved going to his mosque and his love of God, however, as the story went on his faith slowly deteriorated and crumbled away even though he fought hard to keep it. This can happen to the best of people and there is no way to control it unless you are strong with your beliefs.

Everyday she struggles with people calling her the bad person, people not believing her, and people not forgiving her, like her own father. One day when Valerie’s mom texts her telling her she has to work late and to ride the bus home, she decides to walk a few miles to her dads firm. She was kind of skeptical of asking her dad for a ride but she figured it’d be a better alternative to riding the bus. When she arrives at the firm she sees something that made her mouth drop. She saw he dad gently place a hand on his secretary’s shoulder. He called her ‘Sweetheart’ and ‘Baby’, something he hadn’t done to her mom for years. I predicted that he had been having an affair on Valerie’s mom. A few chapters later I found out that my prediction was right. Valeri also found out the ominous truth of her fathers affair. Valerie’s dad told her mom everything and she wanted him out of the house. He told Valerie how much he loved Briley, his twenty-four year old secretary, and then said, “I was set to move in with her over the summer. We’d hoped to have been married been now. But the shooting…” (Brown 294). What made Valerie upset the most was the fact that he hid his anger towards her mom by covering it up with the shooting. He blamed Valerie for his distantness from the family but really he was out having an affair with his

Carl loved his dad very much and it was painful seeing the chair in living room where his dad had sat holding him, many times as he was growing up reading Bible story. Donald sometimes didn’t always have a lot of time for his son, but he always spent quality time with Carl when he had every opportunity. Ruth was helping family friend prepare another platter of sandwiches for guests. Everyone knew that Ruth wasn’t the type to be waited on and she took pleasure in serving and caring for those who had come to pay their respects to her husband. She never knew there were so many who cared. There were many there, especially friends. She never in her life had imagined that Donald had relationship with so many people. Many she never knew or met before. Over in corner, sat the younger woman, quietly she sipped on her tea. Ruth watched her from the kitchen and thought she looked lonely there. Carl walked into the kitchen, headed over to coffee pot to pour him another cup of coffee. “Carl,” Ruth spoke as she handed Carl the sugar, “Do you see the woman sitting near your dad’s chair?” Carl looked up, while stirring his coffee. “Yes, mom, I do. Why?” Carl asked. “No one is talking to her and she sits there alone. I feel sad for her. Do you know who she is?” Ruth asked. “No, mamma I sure don’t. Never saw her before. Do you want me to talk to her?” Carl asked as he walked toward living room. “No, maybe you better not, I’m just trying to place who she is. I feel like I know her, but can’t place where,” Ruth said as she smiled to her son. “Ok, mamma, you really should relax and let others take care of everything,” Carl said. “Here’s a sandwich, now get outta here,” Ruth laughed as she carried another tray out to the table in living

The father, Paul, is the Congolese community’s go-to pastor. His family has been in the U.S. since the 1980s and have become leaders in the Congolese community of the area. Paul, his wife, their four adult children and their 7 grandchildren live in 4 houses, all next door to each other and always eat dinner together, much to the chagrin of the youngest daughter, Mali. Mali, a 22 year-old still lives with her parents and fears becoming like her siblings and never moving away. She craves her independence yet is deeply attached to her family, forcing her to live in a constant dilemma. As the pastor of the community, Paul often has to deal with accusations of Kindoki (or witchcraft) as the cause of his congregation’s problems rather their own actions. He provides counseling and acts as the wise, elder of the community. This position is very important because it helps keep this small community together. The wisdom he imparts on the community, is a very traditional role in many African societies. Adults and youth in the community look towards him for advice. However, his own adult children, especially Mali, struggle with wanting to live independent lives while taking care of and remaining close to their aging

Almost anyone in society can clarify that they have experienced depression or some type of isolation at one period in their life. It is true that experiencing such darkness causes a person to feel lonely and disconnected from the world. This can be portrayed in "Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost. In this poem Frost is walking in the city, at night, and in the rain all while discussing how he is acquainted with the night. The interpretation of this poem can be literal in that Frost is used to walking during the night, but it also proposes a deeper understanding.