The Last Night Of The World Chapter Summary

This book that I read is called “The Night Divided” by Jennifer A. Nielsen. This story takes place in East Germany right after the government decided to put a wall up to separate the country in half. With the sudden rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve year old Gerta, the main character of the story, finds her family divided overnight. Gerta’s brothers were Fritz, who was the older brother in the group at 14 years old at the time and Dominic, who was the second oldest. Which means that Gerta was left as the younger sibling. Their father, Papi a.k.a Aldous, was involved with some rebellion against the government. Though he had never been arrested for anything, the Stasi, their secret police, keeps coming to their house every few months to ask him

At the beginning of these chapters they thought their luck was changing, but sadly it was not. The Kommandant and the Oberscharfuher were talking about how Roosevelt was dead and how they would win. After this happened they shortly arrived at Lager Tekla a small Hungarian Jewish women’s camp. Magda was separated from the them because she was already a Lager worker. Magda’s barrack was bombed out, but she escaped just in time and joined jutka and mother. They were later herded to Schonau Lager. At this camp they were a little scared of the americans constant bombing. At this new camp there were some captured soldiers who offered bits and pieces of information about what was going on in the war. Jutka, Magda, and mother were forced to go on a march, but

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.

My first art portfolio, my favorite keychain, my broken bike…1.2.3. No one ever speaks to you about your own ending. How you die is left up to your own imagination. To you, your death can maybe either be due to a glorious, heroic act in which you met a righteous end or a pathetic closing to what you may believe to be a pretty uneventful existence. No one speaks about endings in general, though. Endings only tend to make us feel anything but content. Yet we dream on, foolishly writing silly ends to our lives, forgetting that the ends we create may be plausible one day. College, family, career…1.2.3. My breaths get weary, my heart slows from boisterous thuds to faint, lethargic thumps. Bright rays gleam above, showering me in what is meant to be warmth, but all I feel is cold. My freezing limbs waft slowly within the water, my feet dangling below, my hair flowing behind. My mother’s laughter, my father’s tears of joy, my friends’ bright smiles…1.2.3. I never dreamt my foolish imagination would collide with the inevitable so soon. My days of compiling were over, my good days, my sad days, my sweet, sweet mundane days, would soon come to an end…Air, air, air, air,

In the final stanza, he makes the reader sad as he assumes the inevitable will happen and she will die. He expresses this through metaphors such as a “black figure in her white cave”, which is a reference to the bright white hospital rooms and although he is the black figure he thinks she just sees a shadow which could be the grim reaper or even death himself, coming to end her journey. No one wants to deal with the sorrow of losing a loved one for good, as

Of all the events that happened during World War 2, the Holocaust is arguably one of the most horrific and disgusting events. The Holocaust is a policy created by Adolf Hitler to extinguish the Jewish race by putting them though concentration camps and extermination camps. Overall, it killed 11 million people including 1.1 million children. Those who survived were lucky, and Elie Wiesel was one of them. His story “Night” is successful in capturing the events that happened in the author’s life and translating them into text for the reader to see.

The symbolism that comes from “Everything will be OK” He is saying that no matter what happens is that in life if you keep fighting that everything will be ok. Everything will work out and there is a plan for everyone. It symbolizes for so many things in the world not just life. No matter what is going on or what you are doing in the end everything will be ok and will come out with something good. He uses this because his whole life he had so many things to deal with. His mom and family leaving his dad, people always telling him he was not good enough, and him wondering if he made the right choices. The outcome was supposed to be better endings. Like his mom meeting the women and he proved everyone wrong because he made it big and he always cared about his family. He left to find himself and people hated him but he did what he had to do to see that everything would be

Ray Bradbury’s short story, “The Last Night of the World” highlights American citizens’ fear of the world ending at any given moment during the Cold War. Although explicitly stated otherwise in the text, Bradbury cleverly addresses these fears by disguising them as a common dream among the characters in the short story. In my research, I focused on articles that bridged Bradbury, a well-known author of several famous novels about the Cold War, and sources that highlighted the attitudes of Americans about the war, itself. As a history buff, the Cold War has always been an interest of mine, thus leading me to the works of Ray Bradbury. Through research and inquiry, I was able to manipulate my topic to fit both “The Last Night of the World” and my own personal

Themes play an important part of all short stories. Jack London’s “The Law of Life”, Ernest Hemingway’s “In Another Country”, and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” all have a common theme, which is death. Each of these short stories reveal this theme but in very different ways. “The Law of Life” is about a native tribe trying to survive in the rough conditions of the wintertime.

This form is restrictive, creating a clear message and a sense of urgency. It is believed that the poem was a message for Thomas?s father, who was dying when it was written. The poem deals with topics such as life, death and mortality and a central theme is to not succumb to death when it is near, but to leave the world fighting and struggling. Another theme present is to live each day as if it were one?s last; one must make the most out of every moment to be satisfied. Like any writer should, Thomas makes

"Fine I will find someway to get the money so I can pay for the farm."

After reading the two articles and short story the reader can now determine a common theme that is describe throughout both of the two readings, the common theme thats is shared is, no matter how bad the world is looking even if it is torn apart, you need to be grateful for what you have and don't look back on what you did wrong but instead look at what you can do. In "The Last Night of the World" by Ray Bradbury The author talks about how everyone has a dream that the world is going to end, and after they find this out they don't look at what is going to happen they look at what they are grateful for and they take it in a calm manner “They washed the dishes and stacked them away with special neatness. At eight-thirty the girls were put to bed and kissed good night and the little lights by their beds turned on and the door left open just a trifle.” (Bradbury).

Death is an idea that everyone must wrestle with at one point in their life, whether it be a quickly approaching doom or a peaceful end sixty years down the line. In Shute’s On the Beach, each character’s individual arch in the novel take separate paths but are all headed towards the same place: death. In response to the extreme scenario they are thrown into, that climax will come much sooner than any of them intended and many are left wondering if they are ready to meet their end. What each one of them decide to do along the way in order to make their lives end on a positive note relates to how they choose to approach death. The theme deals with the way they react to their death, and what each distinct reaction does for them whether it be comfort, distraction, or enjoyment.

Everyday someone loses a person dear to them. You never know if it will be your last day here in this world. We all just live day to day and don’t realize tomorrow could be our last. It’s even worse when it could have been prevented. Choices we make can impact our lives and individuals around us. People say things happen for a reason, and that God has a plan for all of us. We won’t know the truth until something tragic happens each of us.

Ginny waited not so patiently for midnight to roll around. Oh how her heart ached to see Ben. It had