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What Does Night Symbolize in the Book 'Night'?

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In 1986, during his Nobel Prize speech, Elie Wiesel said, “No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions” (Nobel). Wiesel was a holocaust survivor who dedicated his life to telling his story. One of his most famous books is his memoir, ‘Night’. Wiesel starts the memoir describing his life before the Holocaust,...
Elie Wiesel Night
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Victims of the Holocaust According to the Book 'Night'

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“A new survey by the Azrieli Foundation and Claims Conference finds, in April of 2018, an alarming 52% of millennials cannot name at least one concentration camp or ghetto, and nearly one quarter, or 22%, of millennials have not heard, or are not sure, if they have heard of the Holocaust” (Azrieli). The danger of a single story is the...
Elie Wiesel Holocaust Night
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Truth Doesn't Always Triumph as the Ultimate Injustice in 'Jasper Johns'

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Secrets and personal information must be kept private in order to hide any appearance of abnormality. This negotiation on truth can lead to unjust results. The novel, ‘Jasper Jones’, by Craig Silvey, is set in the small town of Corrigan during the 1960s. Being a small town, citizens are very close to each other therefore have the tendency to stock...
Jasper Jones Truth
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Tom Buchanan as a Villain in F. Scott Fitzgerald's ‘The Great Gatsby’

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In the novel, ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the true villain is Tom. He portrays himself as the villain in the novel because of his affairs with the vulgar power, mistress, and self-centered behaviors. Tom Buchanan is the main antagonist in ‘The Great Gatsby’. A hostile and physically striking man, Tom represents the biggest barrier between Gatsby and...
Character The Great Gatsby Villain
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Theme of Alcohol in Francis Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'

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Francis Scott Fitzgerald in his novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ in one way or another touched on the topic of alcohol and addiction to it, characteristic of the society of that era. Caraway is particularly susceptible to alcohol in ‘The Great Gatsby’. Nick Caraway drinks to avoid his reality and associated problems. Secondly, he drinks a lot of alcohol, especially in...
Alcohol The Great Gatsby
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Theme of Racism in the Film ‘Do the Right Thing’ and the Novel ‘Invisible Man’

4 Pages 1664 Words
Throughout American history, there have been many significant events that have shaped America and where we stand today. Going back to the 1600s, this was the time that introduced slavery in North America as well as leading the concept of racism to form. Racism is a huge controversy in America and one of the big main ideas that have led...
Do The Right Thing Invisible Man Racism in America
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Theme of Power Over Others in Octavia Butler's ‘Kindred’ and William Golding's ‘Lord of the Flies’

4 Pages 1661 Words
In the novels ‘Kindred’ by Octavia Butler and ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding, one of the main points portrayed by both authors is how to exert and maintain power over others. Rufus from ‘Kindred’ and Jack from ‘Lord of the Flies’ both use similar tactics to maintain their power over their peers. Both boys attempt at hiding their...
Kindred Lord of The Flies Power
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Theme of Isolation and Fear Caused by Totalitarian Governments in '1984' and 'V for Vendetta'

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The novel ‘1984’ and film ‘V for Vendetta’ are both works that explore how totalitarian governments cause isolation and fear through control. They demonstrate how methods such as propaganda, surveillance and fabrication of information assert control over the lives of their citizens and remove the individual freedom to create a mass of people living in a single unified movement. ‘1984’...
1984 Totalitarianism V For Vendetta
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Theme of Identity Formation in the Novel 'Jasper Jones' and the Film 'In the Wild'

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Memories are the architecture of our identity, designed by our parents. Together the protagonists from the novel ‘Jasper Jones’, and the film ‘Into the Wild’, have grown up with memories built around their parents, and what their parents have emphasized as their identity. Charlie and Chris have had their identities shaped by the way their parents have raised them. Ever...
Into The Wild Jasper Jones Personal Identity
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Theme of Faith in Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night’

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Due to the barbarities that the Jewish people endured throughout the Holocaust, many abandoned their faith in God and humanity. Elie Wiesel’s memoir ‘Night’ recounts how as a 15-year-old boy, he and the Jewish people endure the hardships of the Holocaust. Wiesel was a Romanian-born Jew, whose hometown of Sighet was controlled by the Hungarians for most of the Second...
Elie Wiesel Faith Night
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Theme of Control and Authority in John Webster’s ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ and John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’

4 Pages 2017 Words
The instinct to control others is indeed natural for characters in John Webster’s ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ and John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’. Both Webster and Milton explore the control one exerts over women through Ferdinand and Adam’s desire to control the females, the control of those at a lower status illustrated through the religious figureheads of both works, the Cardinal...
Paradise Lost The Duchess of Malfi
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Relationship between Dana and Rufus in Octavia E. Butler's ‘Kindred’

3 Pages 1176 Words
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‘Kindred’, by Octavia E. Butler, tells the story of Dana, a 26-year-old African American woman from the 1970s, who is constantly called into the 19th century antebellum South by her white ancestor, Rufus Weylin. After learning she must keep Rufus alive to ensure her own bloodline, she explores her family’s roots while at the same time, struggles to witness and...
Book Report Kindred
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Motif of Power Dynamics in ‘Kindred’ and ‘The Book of Martha’ by Octavia Butler

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“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace”, - Mahatma Gandhi. This quote connects to a motif shown in each story, ‘Kindred’ and ‘The Book of Martha’ by Octavia Butler. The motif shown in each story is power dynamics, wherein each, they both develop the motif throughout the books and similarly/differently deals...
Book Report Kindred
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Interracial Relationship between Dana and Kevin in Octavia Butler's ‘Kindred’

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In the novel ‘Kindred’, Author Octavia Butler travels back to the time where slavery was the big part of American life. Butler sends the modern characters like Dana and Kevin to experience the past. As Dana traveled back and forth several times and every time she goes there is a new situation behind it. Butler clears up how interracial relationship...
Book Report Character Kindred
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Impact of Narrator Being within a Literary Work

2 Pages 1126 Words
A narrator is one of the most important elements of any literary work, as he, she, or they are the voice that not only shares the story with the reader, but also conveys their thoughts, opinions, and details to make the story more understandable. What is a narrator, exactly? According to the Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, a narrator is “one...
A Rose For Emily Narrator Sonny’s Blues
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The Great Gatsby: Did Gatsby Really Love Daisy

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Is the love that Gatsby feels driving his relentless pursuit of winning over Daisy? Are all of his schemes to ‘win’ over Daisy worth it? In Gatsby’s eyes Daisy represents the American Dream, wealth, power, fame, and beauty which is the reason why Gatsby is attracted to her. Although Gatsby's fantasies with Daisy never become a reality, his love for...
Love The Great Gatsby
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Black Female Body as a Living Historical Record in Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred’

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Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred’ traces central protagonist, Dana Franklin’s genealogy by physically ‘returning’ her to her slave past in antebellum Maryland. By deconstructing the body of the female slave Butler uses Dana’s body as the site for historical markings, so that she is literally and symbolically scarred by her ancestral past. As Michel Foucault notes, the purpose of genealogy is “to...
Book Review Kindred
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Ted Lavender's Unweighted Fear in ‘The Things They Carried’: Character Analysis

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The award-winning author, Tim O’Brien, wrote the novel ‘The Things They Carried’, which was a collection of short stories based on O’Brien’s experiences in the Vietnam War. He elaborates on the brutality soldiers go through during battle and the morals of a true war story. Introduced in the chapter ‘The Things They Carried’, Ted Lavender is a young soldier, who...
Character Fear The Things They Carried
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Symbolism in Octavia Butler's Novel ‘Kindred’ and Langston Hughes' Poem ‘Harlem’

3 Pages 1176 Words
In the novel, ‘Kindred’ by Octavia Butler, and the poem ‘Harlem’ by Langston Hughes, they both use symbolism to communicate how racism destroys the dreams and ambitions of those affected by its grasp. The poem ‘Harlem’ by Langston Hughes uses symbolism to communicate how racism destroys the dreams and ambitions of those affected by its grasp. Hughes opens the poem...
Kindred Langston Hughes Literary Devices
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Surviving the Holocaust through Social and Physical Resilience in the Book 'Night'

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During World War II, Nazi Germany committed the most infamous genocide in history, the Holocaust. As a result, over 6 million Jews lost their lives in the horrific conditions inside concentration camps across Nazi occupied Europe. Fortunately, many of the prisoners of these concentration camps survived to share their stories. Among these is Elie Wiesel who, along with many others,...
Elie Wiesel Holocaust Night
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Survival and Faith in Elie Wiesel's 'Night'

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In the novel ‘Night’ by Elie Wiesel, the story is about a 12-year-old boy named Elie who faced trials and tribulations throughout the story. Elie begins to lose his faith when he faces a lot during the Holocaust. Elie faced being separated from his mother and his sister who disappeared when they arrived at Auschwitz. Elie originally planned to take...
Elie Wiesel Night Survival
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Suffering and Personality Change in the Book 'Night'

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Throughout history society has been tested with catastrophic events that inflicted suffering upon certain demographics. These past experiences show that in moments of enduring pain even good people are capable of making bad choices. In his memoir, ‘Night’ (Weisel, 2006), Elie Wiesel vividly depicts how moments of intense suffering absolutely bring out the worst in the characters rather than the...
Elie Wiesel Night Personality
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Slave Agency, Resistance and Victimization in ‘12 Years A Slave’ and ‘Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass’

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Berlin argues that the memory of slavery promotes a dual message; one of “the dehumanizing force of slavery and the slaves’ refusal to be dehumanized” (Berlin, 1265). The transatlantic slavery trade and chattel slavery violated the freedom and robbed Africans of their basic human rights, but it did not “define the society and culture that slaves produced” (Berlin 1264). Both...
12 Years a Slave Conversation Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass
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Situational Irony Vs Dramatic Irony in the Stories ‘Sweat’ by Zora Neale Hurston and 'A Rose for Emily’ by William Faulkner

2 Pages 837 Words
In the short story ‘Sweat’ by Zora Neale Hurston, the main character Delia is a hardworking woman who does tremendous manual labor as a washerwoman for white folks. Delia has been in an abusive marriage with her husband Sykes for fifteen years, and he enjoys treating her the way that he does. Sykes doesn’t like that Delia works for white...
A Rose For Emily Irony Sweat
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Scrooge as an Outsider in Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol': Character Analysis

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This essay explores ideas on how Scrooge is presented as an outsider throughout the novella and will identify and analyze techniques used by Dickens. Dickens presents Scrooge as an outsider through his initial description of the character. “External heat had little influence on Scrooge”. The use of pathetic fallacy emphasizes the idea of Scrooge being a cold and heartless individual....
A Christmas Carol Character Charles Dickens
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