Quotes On Life Below Zero

This essay discusses Perry’s upbringing, as a child,was not very enjoyable, he was born healthy, but had a struggling father And drunk for days mother, when he was old enough to know right from wrong, his mother took him away from his father, Perry wanted to stay even said he will run away to come back to his father, but he never succeeded, until his mother kicked him out at a young age as stated “ I took my boy back to his mother and left the City. Perry later told me, his mother told him to find a new home.”(Pg79,In Cold Blood) and he went back to his happy life,and he went to school, but he did not like it, so him wanting to go was his choice but when they moved that changed.

In Capote’s true novel, In Cold Blood, based on the 1959 Holcomb, Kansas murders, the Clutters live a normal calm life not knowing what is about to take place in the Clutter home. There are four people within the Clutter family. There is the father Mr. Herb Clutter, the mother Mrs. Bonnie Clutter, the town sweetheart Nancy Clutter, and her brother Kenyon Clutter.

The Great Louie Zamperini’s Journey What would you do if you were stuck on a punctured life raft for forty-seven days with two other men with shriveled up skin due to the sun, with a grumbling, vacant stomach in the middle of the Pacific ocean after a miserable plane crash? Well, before this all happened to Louie Zamperini, he was a troublemaker as a young boy and turned into an astonishing Olympic runner. Nobody would have ever thought a troubled boy from a small town of Torrance would end up at a Prison camp after multiple depressing days on a life raft. You will see appearances of the novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand.

“Quote goes here” Night is a book about Elie Wiesel and his experience in the Holocaust. It starts from right before it happened and takes you through his life, up until he was liberated by Americans. He was taken through many traumatic events, and watched his fellow Jews succumb to the terrors and reduce themselves to a more primitive state. There are many times where Elie experienced traumatic events, including the entirety of the holocaust. However, while he should have become, and in fact came dangerously close to becoming, a “brute”, he managed to escape this tragic fate. This resulted in his own, sane, survival.

In the world of Pat Frank’s Alas, Babylon, one must learn to adapt in multiple ways in order to live. Physical strength is not enough for a person to survive in this world. Mental stability is very important in order to stay sane in times of extreme stress or discomfort. In the world prior to the dropping of the atomic bombs people could still survive with discrimination and racism. Forgetting these flaws is now the pinnacle of survival. People have to learn to forget about discrimination if they want to survive. In Alas, Babylon there are many characters that adapt in such a way that they learn to survive. Randy Bragg changes from being an alcoholic to turning into a man that can save his family and become a leader of a thriving community. Dr. Dan Gunn changes his life from being a doctor who barely receives any patients, to playing a vital role in the survival of mankind. The failure to adapt will lead to death, and there are some people who cannot adapt and end up dead. The need for respect in these times, before the bombings, is also much greater. Elders are greatly respected and none dare to question this idea. If there is an appointed leader, the followers would listen more without

Truman Capote’s non-fiction novel, In Cold Blood (1963), implies that the death penalty should only be used as a last resort.

The purpose of this quote is to foreshadow what the crime does to the community and how the death of four lives not only ruins the lives of the murderers but also the townspeople. Holcomb was described in the previous paragraphs as a peaceful place where nothing bad could have ever happened. However, the author uses phases such as “lock their doors” to portray how Holcomb and the people that live there had their lives change drastically. Capote also uses the phrase “and as strangers” to show how a very close community transforms into a town where no one feels safe and secure. The effectiveness of this quote comes from how Capote describes the townspeople and what affect it has on their everyday lifestyles.

“The Good Earth” book describes the life of a Chinese farmer, Wang Lung, and the struggles he goes through during his life. In the beginning of the book, he marries a young slave named Olan. She is a devoted, selfless, hardworking wife. In my mind, she is the most admirable character in the novel.

I believe elies goals for writing this novel was for people to understand how important family is. Ellie showed us in his novel how much he cared for his father when he was sick, weak, and scared. The loyalty for your father is one of the most important realitns in the book. The quote “Be good and you shall see good in everything”. This quote really shows elies faith. Elies faith is what kept him going and gave him a strive to survive and keep pushing through. Ellie believed that if he stayed alive that his father would live to. If he died he would believe his father would not have a new chance. Ellie quoted “never shall I forget that night in camp, which turned my life into one long night” shows how long those nights were in camp. After the first night in camp Ellie knew his life was not going to be the same or get better anytime soon. When Ellie states the fact that the first night was the longest makes you think if all the other nights were shorter and just felt very short

In Pearl S. Buck’s novel, The Good Earth, the protagonist, Wang Lung, starts out as a very poor farmer in China. He marries a slave named O-lan and starts a family with her. Famine soon strikes the town and there is no food to be found anywhere. Wang Lung moves his family South in hopes of finding a job there. Eventually, a group of poor people raid the homes of the rich. Wang Lung and O-lan both join in, getting away with enough gold and valuables to get back to their land in the North. Wang Lung uses this stolen money to buy more land and hire laborers. He quickly becomes one of the richest men in his town. Wang Lung, however, does not know that with great wealth comes great responsibility. His wealth corrupts him and his moral judgements become blurred. Wang

Everyone has moments in their life where they wish they would have done something differently. For example, I wish I would have studied for a hard test more or my brother may wish that he did not run on wet tile and break his hand. Many of these things are personal cause and effects. Most of the time you know what you should or should not be doing at the time of the certain action. In the book The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal, the author asks the reader to explore what they would have done if a nazi asked for forgiveness on their deathbed. What makes Wiesenthal’s situation different from ours is that his pain or for lack of better words suffering was out of his control and the person who controlled it is asking him for forgiveness. What

Have you ever had rights taken away from you because of your beliefs? In the novel, Night, By Elie Wiesel the Jews had their rights stripped away from them by the Nazi’s. Throughout the holocaust the conditions of the Jews’ and the process of Dehumanization got worse.

In life people judge other people it is a fact of life and unfortunately that will most likely never change. In “Maus” by Art Spiegelman Vladek the main character is judged through the eyes of different people as the hero and the villain. In different cases Vladek has to adapt to the situation that he is in and can not rely on others. In this story the different characteristics spilt into hero, survivor and villain.

“In a few seconds, we had ceased to be men” (PG.36). Elie is a jewish boy from Transylvania and is taken to Auschwitz where he is separated from his mother and sister. His father and Elie are moved the the concentration camp called “Buna” and spend most of their time there. They then had to be evacuated to Gleiwitz, where they ran about 42 miles to get there. They spent about 3 days there and then they were transported to Buchenwald by train. There they are rescued by Americans and a resistance part that attacked the camp. Sadly Elie’s father dies in Buchenwald due to a sickness and being sent to the crematory. Dehumanization of the Jewish people in “Night” ,by Elie Wiesel, happened in a variety of ways and helped Hitler achieve his ideas about Jewish people.

The novel In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is a prime example why parent figures are important in children's life. For example, Perry is the antagonist of the novel, and he did not have a mother figure due to his mother’s alcoholism, and because of his father's absence, he did not have a father figure. The novel also demonstrates the effect not having a father figure will do to children. Perry, not having mother figure to give him warmth and the love he deserves, turned into someone who does not have any sympathy towards anybody and he does not have any remorse towards the pain and suffering he had inflicted to the clutters family or anybody that would encounter him. “When Smith attacked Mr. Clutter he was under a mental eclipse, deep inside