“Fine. I’ll take her, but only if you have Dad legally sign the company branch I work at over to me.” “Of course. Anything,” his mother said, appearing relieved, but holding tension in her forehead. Oh how the mighty had fallen.
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That night dinner was a quiet affair. The girl (Autumn?) sat dejectedly across the table from him, picking at her food. The severe reprimand she had been dealt earlier must be still bothering her. She should be used to it by now. Quickly shoveling down his food, Eli excused himself from the table early. After he had traveled upstairs to prepare for bed, he heard the echoing shouts of his parents from downstairs. “Sign the company over to HIM?” his father bellowed, “Are you mad woman?” His mother mumbled something unintelligible. “I don’t care about the girl! Do you have any idea what he will do to that company if he has full control?” “I don’t know Richard!” his mother yelled, finally fighting back. “I don’t know, but I cannot live with that wretched girl for a day longer!” A soft knock echoed on the door to Eli’s bedroom. He opened it
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Your family is screwed up!” She flipped her annoyingly red hair at him then stormed away. Eli slammed the door after her, relishing in the loud bang it made. What did she want with him anyway? Didn’t she understand that he didn’t want anything to do with her or his family? Everything relating to his family was best pushed into a corner and never looked at again. And now that he was finally about to free himself for good, he had to take a petty child along with him. His phone pinged on the bedside table, indicating that he had a text, but he ignored it and flopped onto his immaculate white bed. The sounds of his parents arguing still traveled upstairs and the ringing of the slamming door haunted his ears. However, bad as the distraction was, there was nothing in the world that could have stopped him from falling asleep as soon as he hit the
“Splendid news from the Russian Front. There could no longer be any doubt: Germany would be defeated. It was only a matter of time, months or weeks, perhaps. The trees were in bloom. It was a year like so many others, with its spring, its engagements, its weddings, and its births” (8).
We’re just now arriving in Auschwitz-Birkenau. My name is Herr Spiegel, and i’m a 24 year old bartender from Wurzburg, Germany. I’m unfathomably terrified, i don't know what awaits me here, but i’m scared it isn’t anything short of pleasant. Ash is raining from the sky, and thousands of men, women, and children are being sent to work mercilessly.
In the preface to the book, Elie Wiesel says, “I do not know, or no longer know, what I wanted to achieve with my words.” Based on the reading experience, what does Wiesel achieve in this book? Use specific evidence from the text to support the answer.
It’s the grassy greens, near the winding pebbly road I remember first. The long stalks of spinifex still line the edges, though now neatly trimmed all around. The uneven crunch-crunch-crunch of the gravel as I drive my sunny Porsche across town. Even in winter, bindies pepper the half soccer field, other foliage: a bush dotted with withered yellow berries and emerging saplings surround the patchy lawn like spectators. Smack bang in the middle, winter clawing its way in, stands a grandiose resilient oak, basking under the mild heat of the country sun, glorified as it houses two tombs. Its boughs stretch towards me invitingly and I smile…
In Night, one man tells his story of the terrible experiences that he struggled through in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel gives his readers vivid descriptions of the places he was at and of the people who had crossed his path at one time or another. Elie and many other Jews struggle with their faith in God because they have felt abandoned by Him. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses repetition, symbolism, and irony to convey his loss of faith throughout the book.
The role of witnesses like Elie Wiesel is to remind us the he saw how cultured the Europeans degradedand murdered so many. Also he showed us to fight the amoral indifference in this world. That others stood bydoing nothing. They did nothing to combat the suffering of those being persecuted. If we don’t remember thosewho died being tortured and still alive after it and we don’t try to prevent it from happening again we risk becomingguilty of collaboration with the
The holocaust is a period of time were in a time of war a human’s natural right was disregarded and cast away in a trail of bloodshed that over 6 million people suffered just because they were of Jewish descent and many surviving Jewish people of the holocaust had to deal with the guilt of living and witnessing their family dying. This book (Night by Elie Wiesel, Published in 1960) shows the reader the holocaust through the eyes of the author after he was torn away from his village and relocated to a Ghetto in Sighet. After spending some time in the Ghetto he and his family are forced on to a train with hundred’s of other fellow Jewish people who too are also confused about where the Germans were going to send them to. After spending a few
Eve felt strange. A dull, buzzing feeling in the pit of his stomach had started up, somewhere between the end of his last battle and waiting for someone to call his name for the next round. It ate away at the adrenaline that had consumed him in the heat of the moment and demanded that he acknowledge its existence, despite not having any idea what it was. He knew emotions. Wasn't an expert in the matters, or even very good at identifying them in others, but some part of Eve had always considered his knowledge of himself as a sort of given. After all, who was he to attempt to understand other people when he couldn't even understand everything about himself?
Had my own eyes betrayed me? Can I trust anything? “‘What can you expect, it’s war...’” the neighbors said, and invited the Gestapos to invade our homes, our communities, and our lives, yet the Jews of Sighet still smiled as the Gestapo officers sauntered down the streets, guns slapping their thighs, sharp eyes scanning the streets, and allowed their strong German voices to slowly take away our rights (Wiesel 4). If any suspicion about the Gestapo's intentions was present, it was like gossip, hidden away from the light, but talked about in whispers, in the shadows behind closed doors. The thrill consumed me, the thrill of having my own secret, something I knew that no one else knew. I thought about the possibilities, “what the
“Don't listen to him,” her mother says, taking her hand and leading her inside the small house, closing the door on him. “He'll come around, Awen, you'll see. Please, sit down. We have so much to get caught up on, and I just put dinner in the oven.”
Elie Wiesel was a young boy who was sent to a concentration camp at a sad young age. He was raised to be a very faithful boy but because of everything he was forced to do and everything tragic and sad he saw he was mentally traumatized. It made him wonder why if god was so great why wouldn't he come save him? His father probably didn't even have time to explain to him why he was going threw this and why he should not lose hope. As Elie approached the flames of discrimination and hatred he began to second guess his entire faith all together. When his father began to pray to god he said why? Why is my father calling out to him when he did nothing to stop me from coming here? And that's understandable. He was to young to understand trials and
In both stories “Girl” and “Story of an hour” there is use of gender that describes a typically unfair direction of the role of a women, yet the use of gender is describe differently. The use of gender in the “Story of an hour” is mainly about how the wife of a husband who dies in the train crash is going to deal with life without her husband and if she will be able to handle it emotionally. While the story “Girl” deals with a mom that tells her daughter to be well mannered fit in socially with society. The role of women in both stories is to be well mannered and considerate with high standards of behavior. For instance, in the story the women tell the daughter “ on Sunday try to a walk like a lady” (123). A lady is what the mom wants her to become because she is afraid of her becoming unfit for society. Ladies are expected to be very polite and speak in good manners in order to fit the ideal women. In the “Story of an Hour” there is a specific way her family wants her to handle her husband death. The facts Mrs. Malland was told about the tragedy at a certain times makes me believe that writer wants us to believe that women have harder time dealing with her marriage life.
wanted that she would leave him to find someone who could. As Faye faces her guilt for her father’s
His family became outraged and forced him to go. His grandmother as well refused to let him work on Saturdays. In the end, Richard’s conviction was far stronger than of his grandmother.
First and foremost, Hemingway did not chose to call the second main character in this short story a woman, but instead he very explicitly chose to refer to her as a girl. This was a common trend amongst journalists during this period, as can be seen in the articles relating to the deaths of Anna Johnson, the servant girl, and Willie Crawford. While Hemingway’s choice to describe her as a girl not only increases her sense of innocence and helplessness throughout the story, it also reinforces her helplessness by establishing a sense of the women’s inferiority in relation to the man. The way in which the two characters are first introduced shows this immediate division of authority. When setting up the scene, Hemingway writes, “The American and the girl with him sat at a table in the shade, outside the building” (Hemingway 273). In this passage, she is not only described as “the girl”, but she is described as being the girl with the American man. This implies that the girl cannot exist without the man; she is only there because she is with the American man. In fact, we do not even get to know her nationality like how we get to know the man’s, the only thing we really know about her is her state of being with the man which becomes her only defining characteristic. This immediate establishment of the girl’s inferiority sets her up to be continually described and reinforced as innocent, naïve, helpless, and as inferior to the man.