Yaakov Levi

The soldier treated the Jews, including Shmuel who was only 9 years old, very harsh. This builds a frightening mood for the reader. When Bruno and Shmuel are in the concentration camp they are starting to realize that their plan was a terrible idea. They are becoming nervous and don’t know what to do. They are sensing danger. “Don’t worry Shmuel. No matter what happens you will always be my best friend. Then he had the urge to squeeze his tiny hand. They hugged each other and started to cry” (page 212). This is important because it builds a mood that makes the reader want to cry. When they are holding hands in the gas chamber, Bruno and Shmuel were talking in a tone that made the reader understand exactly how they were feeling. They were in a terrifying moment which made the reader nervous for them. The writer made it very suspenseful. In The Boy And The Striped Pajamas, John Boyne was able to use narrative techniques to make the story more interesting add to the add emotion behind it. One way he did that was by using the tone of the build to build a mood for the

As the world around the authors begins to collapse, they are faced with evil and the uncertainty of whether to face the events with optimism or pessimism. Levi begins his experience on a more negative note as he describes what it's like to be on the bottom. “I have learnt that I am haftling. My number is 174517,” (page 27). Levi has lost hope in his own identity. He isn't optimistic or pessimistic, he is indifferent because he feels he is no longer a man, but a property of the Nazis. Levi also demonstrates negativity during his stay at Ka-Be. As he sits and watches the Jews do their usual morning ritual and march he describes how the Germans

Primo Levi began the memoir Survival in Auschwitz with the words, “It seems unnecessary to me to add that none of the facts are invented” to insist his truthfulness. Levi wanted to give an eyewitness account of this horrific moment in the human history . He insist his truthfulness by using a unemotional tone and detachment to report the facts in the role of an observer . no other make up stories are needed to add into this memoir. Levi was demoralized and had stopped feeling the need to keep himself clean because the water and wash basin were filthy and dirty . His friend Steinlauf reminds him that they must not lose their dignity because of the conditions they find themselves in, but fight to survive even in this

From the very title of the novel and beginning poem Levi implores us to consider the essence of what it is to be human, presenting to us the thought-provoking question, if this is a man? Levi this way allows us to engage on an emotional level with the events of the holocaust and examine our own consciences, and as he details in his preface ‘furnish documentation for a quite study of certain aspects of the human mind’, and accuses society of subconscious reasoning that ‘every stranger is an enemy’. In explicit stripping the prisoners depicted in the text of their humanity, making this uncomfortably apparent to us as we are consistently encourage to draw comparisons, or rather contrast, with our own lives and hence are perhaps

Sometimes, we love to hear the story of a tragedy. For example, some of the most well liked tragedies of all time include Gone with the Wind, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, many of Shakespeare’s plays, and a Streetcar Named Desire. These are not only stories though; they have their sadness but throughout there is also hope and there are also morals, these are things to gain by these stories. The story the Levi needs to share with us has no hope, it has no moral storyline that we can learn from

By the time Peter arrived at the castle the sun was close to setting. He sat down in the solar to read for a little before Adelina came to collect him so they could walk to the chapel together. Afterwards, they walked back to the castle and Adelina finished preparing the deer meat that Peter had caught that day. They didn't like to waste time in eating fresh meat, as it would go off quickly. Adelina was a great cook and Peter loved the vegetables she prepared from the gardens. The two of them ate the meal and chatted about how the estate was going.

Not only did Levi want to expose the horrors he experienced along with thousands of others, but also for another reason. Personally, I believe Levi wrote this out of an almost motivational push for his readers. My conclusion on this is because he survived Auschwitz. Levi overcame many obstacles, such as: lack of food and water, poor clothing, horrific sleeping conditions, and illness along the way. I am taking away from this book new information, but also the motive behind Levi sharing his story. I believe his motive in sharing his story is to exemplify strength and to hold on tight and push through life. Of course, Levi’s experience of this example of “strength” is much more significant than what we can relate to in our daily lives, but overall, to portray persistence. This persistence is to know your life has a purpose and to create a strong endurance in life, no matter what obstacles you might have to overcome. I acquired this idea throughout the book when Levi shared the traumatic obstacles he overpowered and came out of the traumatic event a

The prisoners in Auschwitz were treated very poorly and the world came crashing down on them even before they were brought there. When Levi was informed that he was going to be going to Auschwitz from Turin, Italy he did not know what to expect but he did not expect this. He said, "dancing before my eyes I see the spaghetti which we had just cooked, Vanda, Luciana, and I, at the sorting-camp when we suddenly heard the news that we would leave for here the following day; and were eating it and we stopped" (74). He was not aware that he would not be able to eat like this ever in the camp and was almost convinced that he would never eat like that again period. He thought about this in one of the rare moments that he had a chance to think about his past life that was very depressing for anyone to think about. They all thought they would be stuck there forever which it seemed liked already.

Shmuel could be described as a quiet boy who was

Own had been visiting, and he had gone out to collect some herbs to help with Percival’s illness. Percival had just drifted off when he heard the front door smash open. Disoriented, he assumed he was dreaming. However, his mother’s earsplitting screams and the sounds of furniture smashing forced

During the night, John was sleeping and unexpectedly he heard a noise coming from the living room, he woke up and after going to the hallway, noticed that his mother was there, drugged again.

During the second half of the 19th century a wave of Jews, fleeing from their home countries in Eastern Europe, immigrated to the United States looking for a better quality of life and pursuing not being persecuted for their religion. In Abraham Cahan’s book “The Rise of David Lewinsky” the main character is one of these Jewish people who immigrated from Antomir, Russia, to America in order to succeed. This essay will demonstrate how in order to rise in America David Levinsky had to change the way he practiced Judaism, from being an orthodox and becoming a conservative focusing on the events where he is a “greenhorn no more.” Abraham Cahan had two insights that helped him understand the process of fitting in society. The first insight was

When first beginning to read this novel the reader may think that it’s just a normal family, but in actuality it’s not just a normal family. Jacob the main character his grandpa told him these stories when he was little, he thought they were just fairytales until he got older and now he thinks his grandpa is just making up these fantasies but in actuality he’s not. The pictures he showed Jacob was of his childhood family.

In Primo Levi’s The Drowned And The Saved, his analysis of the Holocaust had conclusions and assumptions that resonated with the philosophy of Nietzsche. More precisely, points made by Levi can be drawn back to Nietzsche’s “sickness”, slave morality and the role of the ascetic priest. Although Levi is thorough to acknowledge the ideas of Nietzsche in his writing, he fails to fully grasp how Nietzschean philosophy could view these events. First, I would like to identify the parallels to Nietzsche’s “sickness”.

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a composer, pianist and conductor from Russia. He was one of the best Russian composer, the last brilliant Russian representative late Romanticism. He was influenced by Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky and other Russian musicians given way to a completely private idiomatically, with lyrical qualities, breath, building of ingenuity, characteristic orchestral feelings. Vocalise No. 14, Op. 34, was a song of Sergei Rachmaninoff, composed on the 1910s, his last "Fourteen Songs" Op. 34. Written for soprano and tenor with piano,it do not have any words.Antonina Nezhdanova decided how to sing