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The Last Night Of The World Theme Essay

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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). …show more content…

As you can see this can be linked to the theme because instead of having fear they are calm and continue their normal lives and look forward instead of back. After reading As Europe Greets a Flood of Refugees, Some in Japan Ask: Why Not Us?" This story can be linked to the theme because in this article they talk about how Japan is going to pledge 200millon dollars to help refugees, but some think that japan will not because they have a closed doors for refugees for thousands of years to try to keep their sites clean, “but Japan, which has gone to great lengths to rehabilitate its image since World War II itself on being a good global citizen. It is one of the largest aid donors in the world. Last year Japan gave $181.6 million to the United Nations’ High Commissioner or Refugees, making it second only to the instead of back. After reading As Europe Greets a Flood of Refugees, Some in Japan Ask: Why Not

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