Running from death or walking towards death is a common theme throughout literature. A passage to a different life is the theme shared by “Because I Could not stop for Death” and Casablanca they differ in that one is a journey taken with Death as a companion, while the other is a journey to escape death.…
Troop Leading Procedures and the Military Decision-Making Process are two different procedures. They are used in the military to help pass down information from the higher levels down to the lower ones. These different procedures are used at different levels in the chain of command. They are both used to help solve problems at an easier speed of time.…
Man vs. Man is one of the many conflicts in the book “Night” written by the late Elie Wiesel. Wiesel expresses that it was him against the Nazi soldiers for they were ordered to beat the Jews and often times kill them. They were forced out of their homes and, “the Hungarian Police made them climb into the [cattle] cars, eighty persons in each one” (22). After going through many mentally damaging experiences, the Jews soon began to turn on each other. During transport, bystanders threw a piece of bread at the passing men, and an old man managed to snatch it. Everyone, including his son, jumped on him “when they withdrew, there were two dead bodies next to [Wiesel], the father and the son” (102). Later when Wiesel’s father was dying of dysentery,…
This passage shows that wars go on around the world, all the time people are battling a…
In the bestselling novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Death states, “To me, war is the new boss who expects the impossible.” Death uses this quote to emphasize how ruthless the war is, for he is caught up in a storm of souls that grows larger as the war progresses. Those souls remain in the storm, waiting for death to free them from the nightmare they are stuck in. As Death frees these lost souls, he “notices their ugly and their beauty, and wonders how the same thing can be both.” Overall, Death remains a major character and provides a unique point of view which connects the story…
“I veered off my course to follow the stream, running downhill along the slippery stones, faster now that I was out of the snow. My body waited for the inevitable bullet...” (179). Lev and Kolya has met up with Partisans and begins marching to a nearby city. Before even arriving at the city, they smell that the Germans have set the entire city on fire. Without any other choices, they are forced to spend the rest of the night at a safehouse that the Partisan’s own. They are awoken to someone saying “They’re coming,” (177) and within minutes that begin to run. Lev dashes and hides behind a trunk, only to hear 3 sets of footsteps coming towards him. The author effectively creates suspense by making the readers uncertain about what will happen…
The theme is death O’Brien’s novel “How to Tell a True War Story” all of the men witness it and fear it. They started off with a lot of men, but dwindled down to several people including the narrator. Comrades they have shared stories with and watched each other’s back. Even become brothers they could confidant in, but this is War. The novel “This way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen” the narrator and the Frenchmen Henri were acquaintances. When they work for the German soldiers they constantly lead people to their deaths. Or carry out people that perished during the struggle. Old women or men and children didn’t have a chance during the separation because they were no use to the soldiers. Basically, if the people weren’t young or fit enough to work until the day that the soldiers eliminated them; you went to the trucks or to the crematorium. The novels are about war so of course death is going to follow; the holocaust was the most devastating time in history. For Poland even though it wasn’t in the United States it still impacted us dramatically. And the Vietnam War that still has people wondering what the whole purpose was. Throughout the course of the story “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen” the narrator mention a S.S officer he saw that was taking tally in a notebook. He said, “For each departing truck he enters a mark; sixteen gone means one thousand people, more or less”…
For The Scarlet Ibis, I think it was the narrator’s fault that Doodle died. The narrator made Doodle run too hard, the narrator did not care for Doodle, and the narrator ran as fast as he could so he could get away from Doodle.…
Eliezer and his father were told that they have to work and as they listened to the SS officers they saw a sign saying “Warning! Danger of Death. Was there a single place where one was not in danger of death?” (pg.40) Like most of us, if we ever saw that sign we would think of a construction area or an electrical line area. When I hear the word death I also think of a death in the family or that someone in the world just died. I may also think that everybody dies and I can die tomorrow or today. But for Eliezer, Life and death are like a joke that they hate with passion. When they were called for roll call one day, three people were going to be hanged and one of them was a child. When they were hanged, Eliezer had to look at them closely and then he saw them and said “…he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes.” (pg. 65) This is what life and death meant for Wiesel. It was either I die to today or I live in torture worse than the devils hell. When he heard the word life he thought of how his life went from a simple fun life to a grim reality of hell. How he has the worse life possible, but there…
I chose this specific quote because I could relate to it in some ways such as feeling numbness, and zoning out or stepping out of reality to think about what is truly happening. This quote also stuck out to be the first time I read it and I was just very intrigued by it. My picture accurately depicts the quote because I drew two different Elies; the pair of legs that is still represents Elie stepping out of reality whereas the pair of legs that is running shows the Elie that is still in reality and running in order to survive and arrive at the next destination without dying. This quote is significant because it depicts that even when these men are running to survive, their minds are elsewhere and that their only goal is to survive until they…
Elie heard this quote from a “French” women after his first beating from Idek. The French women was encouraging to survive and keep faith, so that one day Elie would be able to speak up for the Jews. When the quote states, “Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now.” displays the silence that Jews had to live through to survive the camps. The quote conveys the theme of dehumanization because in order to survive the camps the Jews were forced to internalize everything they felt or risk being killed. Another theme conveyed was human morality, the women’s compassion and kindness towards Elie showed that even in times of extreme distress human kindness will prevail. Upon reading the quote, I knew that…
After Elie Wiesel and his family neglect to flee the Jewish town of Sighet, Transylvania back in 1944, they start to experience the very brutality of what is today known as the “Holocaust.” They were taken from their homes, stripped of their valuables, and severely tortured beyond human limits. In this dark story, the reader can experience pain and suffering like they have never experienced it before by looking through the eyes of the young Elie Wiesel. For a person to endure as much suffering as Elie did, they would have to be very strong. They would have to have very strong morals, and have something very important to fight for. People suffer everyday, whether it be lightly or heavily. However, it all is the same. In the story “Night” by Elie Wiesel, he utilizes the concepts of comradeship, love,…
The chapter starts with Death’s thoughts on Max’s situation, a great quote of “If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive” (168). Death clearly shows his human quality; a quality of believing freedom is the key of living. It is ironic because it is impossible to be dead and alive at the same time. Instead, Death meant by saying that even if Max were killed, at least he would die having lived because he finally escaped the compounds of his art hiding spot and was now traveling out of seclusion. To Death if Max dies, he would die with dignity of being a human unlike in concentration camps or in hiding. A sentence that is bright yet foreboding foreshadows the rest of the chapter.…
“Men to the left! Women to the right!” (pg. 27). These 8 eight simple words altered one’s fate as they entered the concentration camps at Auschwitz; furthermore, they transformed the course of action displayed by the Jews throughout the gruesome journey that was the Jewish Holocaust. Men were sent to one side of the camp to work as laborers, whereas women were sent to the right to be terminated. Along…
On line 9 the speaker raises his intensity, and becomes more hostile towards Death, calling him names and taunting him as a slave. The speaker uses a metaphor when he says “slave.” The speaker is suggesting that Death doesn’t act on his own free will, and instead is controlled or manipulated by other things like "fate, chance, kings, and desperate men". Then on line 10, the speaker brings another accusation against Death, claiming that he hangs out, with "poison, war, and sickness." I believe the speaker claims these are Death friends because they all kill lots and lots of people and they’re all generally considered bad or painful ways to die. On lines 11-12 the speakers begins to relate back to the comparison he made earlier in the sonnet about “sleep” and “death”. Earlier in the sonnet the speaker compared “sleep” and “death” now he’s saying who needs Death anyway? If the speaker wants to sleep he can just use drugs. Death is usually thought of as the ultimate sleep aid, but the speaker puts death in his place, telling him not to "swell" with pride. The last lines concludes the sonnet in somewhat of a unique way. First he revisit the idea of death as “sleep” and he thinks back to Christianity because he believe between death and eternal life you are asleep. The poem final words is “Death, thou shalt die” which means that death will die. The speaker probably knew that death dying is a contradiction, but he just meant that death won’t exist…