A film I watched that addresses many social issues, was an HBO mini-series called, “The Night Of”. The show is a crime drama. It begins to examine into the intricate story of a fictitious murder case in New York City. A Pakistani-American college student, Naz, borrows his dad's cab to attend a party, but he has a change of plans when an attractive, mysterious young white woman asks for a ride. They go to her apartment alone for a drug fueled night of partying, but things take a gruesome turn when Naz wakes up to find her brutally stabbed to death. With no recollection of what happened, he flees the scene, but it's not long before Naz is arrested for murder. The series follows the police investigation and legal proceedings, all the while examining
A Night Divided written by Jennifer A. Nielsen is about a twelve-year-old girl named Gerta and her quest for freedom. Gerta is living in East Germany during the construction of the Berlin wall. A few days before the installation of the barbed wire fence and the formation of the wall, members of Gerta’s family left for West Germany to search for apartments and job opportunities. They were not allowed to re-enter the Eastern Zone. Gerta and her brother Fritz are inspired by the death of their friend Peter, who tries to escape the East. They become motivated at the thought of being reunited with their family. This inspiration and motivation drives them to build a tunnel to the other side of the wall. The story is not just about the physical challenges
Ready Player One hits some of the same situations as in the holocaust or for the book that we read “Night” like taking people spread out over a good area and combining them into a small dense area. They both also touch on the topic of how when someone is killed or something is blown up now one raises an eyebrow or if they do no one does anything about it.
No one likes being treated poorly. Throughout history, countless wars have been fought, whether they had a reason or not. Many people have suffered due to these wars. People have become POW’s (prisoners of war), have lost their homes because of the conflicts, and have even had to leave their homelands. Take this more relevant example in Syria, for example. Thousands of Syrians are leaving their households to escape the everlasting conflicts of war. Just like in history’s past wars, many civilians have been forced to leave their homes in order to stay safe. Modern and past wars seem to repeat themselves in a way. The theme of Elie Wiesel’s book Night is to show that through dehumanization, there is more silence, less faith, and an eternity of night.
The book night is about the holocaust but more importantly. It’s about a boy who goes through it and the terrible events that happen to him. Tragic events could have devastating effects on any one. Eliezer has gone through terrible events that changed his perspective on god.
In the beginning of the bible, the world was dark. Then God created light in order to make it brighter. However, when the God is not here to protect the light, Night overtook. It is a time of darkness. It is also a place where people cannot see and help each other. Because of the faith in God, the darkness, hopeless of Night, and the period of Night, Elle Wiesel’s famous short novel is called “Night”, which is very significant for Elle Wiesel as well as the Jews during World War II.
Everyone knows what it is like to have a day that completely drains them. One comes home after a long, tough day and just wants to collapse at the door. Life is full of adjunct things that complicate day to day things, and more than anything, make life a pain in the neck. These little specks of adversity are like the an ice sculptors chisel and hammer. They can change a person and make them into something amazing, or they can cause them to shatter. Kevin Conroy said that, “Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one’s journey is easy. It’s how they handle it that makes people unique.” Adversity is a part of everyone’s life in some way. How do the books Night by Elie Wiesel and tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom show adversity in the lives
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.
During WW1 we has 3 allies Britain, France, and Russia and there was 3 central powers Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. Woodrow Wilson wanted to keep out of this was and the country was split on what to do about neutralist. President Wilson proposed a “Fourteen Points” peace plan for WW1. The US was officially considered a world power. WW1 originated in Europe and lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. The propaganda during WWI focused on Germany’s harsh treatment of Belgium, France and Britain. The German army was growing weak from influenza and was deprived of supplies and on September 1918 - one million American soldiers slowly pushed the Germans out of northeastern France.By the time November came around Germany
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)
Throughout Night, dehumanization consistently took place as the tyrant Nazis oppressed the Jewish citizens. The Nazis targeted the Jews' humanity, and slowly dissolved their feeling of being human. This loss of humanity led to a weakened will in the Holocaust victims, and essentially led to death in many. The Nazis had an abundance of practices to dehumanize the Jews including beatings, starvation, theft of possessions, separation of families, crude murders, forced labor, and much more. There is no greater loss than that of humanity, so one can never truly relate to the horrors of dehumanization the Jews faced. In the list below, I will compile various examples that correlate to this theme of dehumanization.
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.
The novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” is a literary work written in 1960 by the american author Harper Lee, who demonstrates the importance and benefit of moral education through the characters Scout and Jem Finch, which leads to their growth as characters. The underlying message of the novel in regard to these lessons is that each one has a profound impact on how both Jem and Scout’s actions change as they learn and mature from the events that cause the children to pick up these traits. The novel explores this notion through three main lessons that the above characters have learned during the story’s progression: the lesson of prejudice, courage and empathy.
What do you think about Ulysses? Is he a hero or a zero? I think Ulysses is a hero because he risked his life to fight and he wanted to get home to his wife the whole time he was away. One rationale why Ulysses is a hero is that he fought bravely in the Trojan War, helping to win the war for the Greeks. He also persisted in his journey to get home to rule his people in Ithaca, despite many roadblocks and dangers.
Since the book centers around the darkest time of Elie’s life, it would make sense to title it ‘Night’ as a metaphor that describes just how dark the Holocaust was. When Elie first reaches the concentration camp, it is clear that the time following would not be easy. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed... Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.” (p. 34)
On the United States Holocaust Museum, I went to the exhibit titled, “Some Were Neighbors”. In this exhibit, it explained the different kinds of people the Jews were around during the holocaust, how those people acted towards the Jews. It mainly talked about how they had helped or harmed the Jews simply because of fear, peer pressure, or just because they could. From this info, a lot of connections could be stated, each between both the book Night and the movie Schindler’s List.