It’s been a few years since you’ve gone to study abroad. Do you remember when I was a child you often sit next to my bed reading me bedtime stories? That was really a great time, and we usually would share with each other the books that we thought were very meaningful, before you went to the US. It’s been quite long since we’ve done that. In that last month I read a book quite significant and to a certain level related to our family and our community, I figure it’d be a great time to write to you again to pick up our old habit, suggesting books to one another. Basically the book that I stayed up reading a few nights is Long Day’s Journey into Night. It’s a book about the Tyrone family, which was once close and intimate, has …show more content…
Jamie squanders money on booze and has to rely on his parents’ support. Although an intellectual boy, Edmund also has a tendency to alcohol. Like Edmund and Jamie, many adults in our community have also no directions in their life and are living a lax life. With no directions, people just spend their life in booze. To me, having no directions in life equals sailing on the sea without a compass and a cause, which is quite sad. Whether a life is full or not is not measured by its length, but how much we do with it. If we know what to do with our life, even in a short life we can live a full life. Do you feel the same? There are some quotes from the book that impress me. For example, “it’s you who should have more respect! Stop sneering at your father! I won’t have it! You ought to be proud you’re his son! He may have his faults. Who hasn’t? But he’s worked hard all his life. He made his way up from ignorance and poverty to the top of his profession! Thanks to him, you have never had to work hard in your life.” While you’re studying overseas, I’m sorry to tell you that I once had a big fight with our parents. That was the time when I tried to persuade our smoker dad to quit his bad habit. When he refused, I got so furious that I said he wasted our money doing what everyone hated, that he didn’t deserve to be in our family, and that he didn’t deserve to be our dad. After reading this book, I realized that no matter what happened in the family, I
It is fascinating when two people from completely different backgrounds have common characteristics. A world of poverty is depicted in Liz Murray’s book Breaking Night (2010). The memoir tells the struggles of a young girl’s journey from living on the city streets to attending one of the top schools in the country. Although our lives are quite different, Liz Murray and I show similar traits through struggle and success.
“Night’ shows that even in the most brutalising conditions, people still behave humanely. To what extent do you agree?”
Night is a novel written from the perspective of a Jewish teenager, about his experiences
One of the main themes throughout the book is the title of the book “Night”. There are references from Eliezer about night during the book, which are full of symbolism. The word “night” is used repeatedly, and Eliezer recounts every dusk, night and dawn through the entire book. For instance, Night could be a metaphor for the Holocaust—submerge the family and thousands of Jewish families in the darkness and misery of the concentration camps.
Through his first-person memoir Night, Elie Wiesel reveals that people experience changes in their attitude as they become products of their environments.
Individuality is the supreme catalyst that guides people to feel self-worth and become emboldened in their pursuits. It is the mentality that gives humans clarity and uniqueness that make the world interesting. It is what allows each person to be respected in his/her own way. In the stories Night and Persepolis, the motif of individuality is emphatically expressed. It is portrayed as essential to the hope of the masses. When individuality is suppressed people lose virtues/self respect/humanity, motivation/will to live and faith. In essence, they give up the idea of anything else except their suffering. As thousands die, the protagonists (of Night and Persepolis)
Alycia Grant Rough Draft: The book "Night by Elie Wiesel was the most interesting book that I have ever read. It conveyed very well what had occurred during the Holocaust. Reading this book made me feel the emotions, and stress involved with him being in this situation. The writing was descriptive, but not too much so that it was boring. The writing in this story painted a vivid picture in my mind. No matter where he was, I had a good idea of how his environment appeared in his mind. He described well what he felt, heard, smelled, tasted, and seen. This made me like the book much more, and it helped me better understand how horrible and traumatic this event really was. Elie Wiesel is a strong person in my opinion for being able to go through what he did, and then write about exactly what happened, in deep detail, afterwards.
these people with their lives and the lives of their loved ones, the Jews were “persuaded”
It was at first a slow progression from limiting the rights of the Jewish people, to wearing the Star of David and then to the attempted extermination. The Germans then began a race to kill the Jews as quickly as they could (Wiesel, 2008).
Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, a young Jewish boy, who tells of his experiences during the Holocaust. Elie is a deeply religious boy whose favorite activities are studying the Talmud and spending time at the Temple with his spiritual mentor, Moshe the Beadle. At an early age, Elie has a naive, yet strong faith in God. But this faith is tested when the Nazi's moves him from his small town.
“Night” is a book based on the childhood of the writer Elie Wiesel and his experience during Nazi-Germany. He writes about his experiences from 1944-1945 the height and downfall of the second World War.
The Russian Revolution and the purges of Leninist and Stalinist Russia have spawned a literary output that is as diverse as it is voluminous. Darkness at Noon, a novel detailing the infamous Moscow Show Trials, conducted during the reign of Joseph Stalin is Arthur Koestler’s commentary upon the event that was yet another attempt by Stalin to silence his critics. In the novel, Koestler expounds upon Marxism, and the reason why a movement that had as its aim the “regeneration of mankind, should issue in its enslavement” and how, in spite of its drawbacks, it still held an appeal for intellectuals. It is for this reason that Koestler may have attempted “not to solve but to expose” the shortcomings of this political system and by doing so
day before, one of which was merely a child so light in weight that he
"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in the camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never." (9)
Stafford furtively conceals the profound meaning of his poem behind a story of the narrator, who stops alongside the road to care for a deer. The genius behind poem is better understood when the superficial meaning is expressed deeply.