Comparing Hope, Despair, And Memory
In this essay I will be talking about whether everyone has the power to change the world or not. I will also be talking about the stories, “Master Harold” ...and the boys, and Elie Wiesel’s famous Nobel lecture speech, “Hope, Despair, and Memory. Both stories were tales of poverty, racism, and war. Both tales quietly helped change the world.
In the beginning of “Master Harold” and the boys, the three main characters, Hally, Willie, and Sam, talk about how the world is in poverty. “It's a bloody awful world when you come to think of it,” Hally states, “People can be real cruel.” “After that, Hally immediately states, “It doesn't have to be that way. There is something called progress you know.” Hally believes that things will change. “I oscillate between hope and despair for this world as well, Sam,” He tells Sam, “But things will change, you wait and see. One day somebody and is going to get up and give history a kick in the backside and get it going again.”
Hally goes on to say that “Social reformers” are going to change the world.
“So where's ours?” Sam asks. “Good question,” Hally replies, “And I hate to …show more content…
He wrote many things about religion and politics, but one thing in particular stood out about his article: “Hope without memory is like memory without hope.” ‘Memory will save humanity.” He approaches the subject over again and again, with constant repetition. “If memory helps us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living.” It seems the theory that, “Without the ability to forget, man would cease to learn,” Has been proved over and over. Stories such as Elie Wiesel’s usually invoke sadness and fear into the common man, and remind us that the need for change is evident and
In the beginning of “Master Harold” and the boys, the three main characters, Hally, Willie, and Sam, talk about how the world is in poverty. “It's a bloody awful world when you come to think of it,” Hally states, “People can be real cruel.” “After that, Hally immediately states, “It doesn't have to be that way. There is something called progress you know.” Hally believes that things will change. “I oscillate between hope and despair for this world as well, Sam,” He tells Sam, “But things will change, you wait and see. One day somebody and is going to get up and give history a kick in the backside and get it going again.”
Hally goes on to say that “Social reformers” are going to change the world.
“So where's ours?” Sam asks. “Good question,” Hally replies, “And I hate to …show more content…
He wrote many things about religion and politics, but one thing in particular stood out about his article: “Hope without memory is like memory without hope.” ‘Memory will save humanity.” He approaches the subject over again and again, with constant repetition. “If memory helps us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living.” It seems the theory that, “Without the ability to forget, man would cease to learn,” Has been proved over and over. Stories such as Elie Wiesel’s usually invoke sadness and fear into the common man, and remind us that the need for change is evident and