Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Auschwitz, For Whom the Bell Tolls, honors essay, Issac Rosenberg, Night, Red Badge of Courage, World War II on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Once, New Year’s Day had dominated my life…Once, I had believed profoundly that upon one solitary deed of mine, one solitary prayer, depended the salvation of the world. This day I ceased to plead…My eyes were open and I was alone-terribly alone in a world without God…without love or mercy” (Wiesel 65)
In many [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged All Quiet on the Western Front, Appeals of War, Comradeship, Elie, For Whom the Bell Tolls, J. Glenn Gray, Night, Paul Baumer, Robert Jordan, Warriors on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“He had wanted to get rid of his father! He had felt that his father was growing weak, he had believed that the end was near and had sought this separation in order to get rid of the burden, to free himself from an encumbrance which could lessen his own chances of survival” (Wiesel 87)
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Posted in Uncategorized on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Comrades, You’re in the concentration camp of Auschwitz. There’s a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don’t lose courage. You’ve already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So Now, muster your strength, and don’t lose heart. We shall all see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all else, have faith. Drive [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged All Quiet on the Western Front, animal instincts, Night, survival, The Red Badge of Courage on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One day when we had stopped, a workman took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wagon. There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought each other for a few crumbs. The German workmen took a lively interest in this spectacle. (95)
Night tells of a young [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged comeraderie, death, desperation, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Holocaust, Night on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“His son had seen him losing ground, limping, staggering back to the rear of the column. He had seen him. And he had continued to run on in front, letting the distance between them grow greater. A terrible thought loomed up in my head: he had wanted to get rid of his father” (Wiesel 86-87)
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged All Quiet on the Western Front, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hamlet, Night, Red Badge of Courage, The Warriors on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Don’t forget that you’re in a concentration camp. Here, every man has to fight for himself and not think of anyone else.” (Wiesel 105)
No institution demonstrates human nature more clearly than war. War allows man to both return to his primitive, more animal-like tendencies and allows him to fight for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Elie Wiesel is an absolute G on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Everything was regulated by the bell. It gave me orders, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Elie Wiesel, Jews, Night, Red Badge of Courage on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I did not move. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck,
before my very eyes, and I had not flickered an eyelid. I had looked on and
said nothing. Yesterday, I should have sunk my nails into the criminal’s flesh.
Had I changed so much, then? So [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Since you put it clearly in that way I believe that must be it. But with or without God, I think it is a sin to kill. To take the life of another is very grave. I will do it whenever necessary but I am not the race of Pablo.”
In For Whom the Bell [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged code hero, For Whom the Bell Tolls, grace under pressure, Hamlet, Hemingway, Hero, lit of war, mouth, Polonius, Robert Jordan, Spanish Civil War on November 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“You are an old man who will make himself trouble with his mouth”
(Hemingway 16)
Hemingway’s hero is a man involved in a great deal of drinking. He is a man who moved from one love affair to another, who participates in wild game hunting, who enjoys bullfights, etc. He carries two main characteristics. He does not [...]
