The World Of Darkness And Coldness

“Four Directions” is the story of Waverly Jong, the young prodigy chess player who lashes out at her mother because of her constant showing off of Waverly. After returning to chess, Waverly realizes that her skill and determination is gone, along with the support and love from her mother. She beings to understand that her winning was solely dependant on her mother’s boastful remarks about her daughter, the love the Lindo was so openly expressing.

In Amy Tans “Rules of the Game” a first generation adolescent becomes fascinated with the game of chess and uses its rules as a strategy for life while growing up and away from her Chinese culture. This short story illustrates the struggle of growing up is especially difficult when in a culture different from ones parents.

The start of a Chess game. The first phase of the game before the middlegame and

An important quote in 1984 is "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness"(Orwell 25). This quote is said in one of Winston's dreams. Dreaming was the only grounds to escape for the citizens of Oceania unless you are one of those people to mutter things about what you are dreaming when you're sleeping. "He knew what it meant, or thought he knew. The place where there is no darkness is the imagined future"(Orwell 26). A spot with no murkiness was thought about a spot where individuals had opportunity, where individuals could express their feelings. Furthermore , Winston thought it implied that individuals would one day be free of the party. Moreover, it gave Winston trust in a superior future. Truth be told,

Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night is based on his experiences in the German concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Second World War. Having grown up an Orthodox Jew in the Hungarian village of Sighet, Wiesel and his family was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 where his mother and youngest sister were immediately sent to the gas chambers. While both his older sisters survived, his father, with whom Wiesel had fought to survive the labor camps, died shortly before the war ended. Night tells the horror stories of the Holocaust through the eyes of the fifteen-year old Wiesel who recounts the loss of his innocence, his faith in God, his sense of time and his sense of self. Night describes how the Nazis dehumanized the Jews at every stage through the war years. And in the process, they lost their own sense of humanity.

Waverly Jong and June Woo’s rivalry reflect value of success and worth depicted in the novel because both of them start not knowing how to play it. It happens when Waverly's brother got a second handed chess for a gift that have few pieces missing. Waverly's wants to play in and then later on after battling a lot and practice, she won many tournaments. That is because if people try harder on anything, one day they will succeed just like Waverly. At first, she does not know how to play chess, but later got got interest in it when she see her brother having the chess. She soon know a lot of strategies which make her win a lot and master at this game. This is similar to June Woo’s situation, which is when her mother saw a little girl playing piano

The jewish Holocaust contained many things that people found were against “humanity”. Many people associate someone losing their humanity with someone killing another person or doing something bad. But there is more to that. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel there are many examples of people losing their humanity.

When people lose their dignity, they also lose a part of the very thing that makes them human. Despair, hopelessness, fear and apathy are all ways a human can lose their humanity. The eyes provide a window onto the soul, and thus a view on the person’s mental state. The eyes also function in reverse, as a symbolic gesture of control over someone. All of this is present in Night, by Elie Wiesel, an account of human tragedy, human cruelty, human dignity, and the loss thereof.

“There was no longer any reason to live, any reason to fight” (99). Fighting is a common theme across many pieces of literature. This time, fighting comes up in multiple occasions, as the book takes place during a time of great fighting, World War II. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel uses fighting as a motif to demonstrate that survival is dependent on having the strength to fight, as shown in the scene where Akiba Drumer dies, the scene where kids were fighting over a coin, and the scene when Elie’s father dies. Akiba Drumer is a faithful believer in God and a happy spirit in the camp until selection.

Lastly, being a chess player involves being strategic. While Waverly is versing an American man, she says, “ ‘Blow from the South’, it murmured. ‘The wind leaves no trail’. I saw a clear path…lean away from the wind so he is easier to knock down’ ” (Tan 4). Waverly is using methods taught by Lau Po to knock down her opponents knight. She imagines that the wind is blowing, knocking down the knight. This relates to the title because Lau Po is teaching Waverly his rules of winning a chess tournament. Therefore, chess is a game that involves many rules and strategies to be successful.

I chose my book, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, because I recognized that it was in the time period of world war two. The novel didn’t touch on the topic of the holocaust and Hitler was only mentioned in certain parts which was what I was hoping it would, but I ended up really enjoying it anyways. When I began, I realized that their stories were told separately, following the pattern of every other chapter. This is was drove me in the beginning, trying to see if their stories ever connected and even when it was with something so little it was so satisfying to read. As I read, I began to like the book even more, though; sometimes it would go forward in time and suddenly go backwards, leaving me on a cliffhanger and having me wanting

In the poem, “Chess” by Rosario Castellanos the main idea demonstrated in the poem is there is no true victor in war. Castellanos makes the idea that there is no victor in war known through the use of imagery, figurative language, and tone. In the poem two “friends” compete with one another, the competition escalates into a stalemate. Despite playing the game for centuries they cannot figure out how to destroy each other. Because they cannot figure how to destroy each other, the game will never produce a victor.

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Zweig, an outstanding writer and a psychologist, used his accumulation of knowledge along with his skills of observing people, in order to write his last novella, The Royal Game. In this book, which is also called “Chess”, Zweig tells the extraordinary encounter of two men that are completely different from each other: Czentovic, a robot-like man whose only occupation is playing chess, and Dr. B, who had been forced to live in a stage of nothingness for months, started playing chess as a result of an accident - and unlike Czentovic, has gotten beyond the limits of his imagination. While it seems like the main event in the book is the confrontation of these two men, the author also focuses on the unusual experiences

Evil: Morally bad or wrong; wicked. Causing ruin, injury, or pain; harmful. Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous. Bad or blameworthy by report; infamous. Characterized by anger or spite; malicious. The definition of evil, a term used very cautiously in modern society, is very diverse among different people. In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the term evil is articulated through several ways mainly four characters: the cruelty within the people of the Belgian Congo, main mystery of Kurtz, the setting upon which the characters reside, and the atmosphere in which the Belgian Congo produces from the elements prior stated. The smarter Europeans used their intelligence and arms strength to cruelly overcome the weaker