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    I Am Not Who You Think In The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the characters Daisy and Gatsby putting on fake exteriors throughout the novel to reveal that when one tries to ignore one’s true identity‚ it will eventually be exposed. Daisy acts as the “beautiful fool” in order to hide the pain of living in the reality of her husband’s continual affair. “The butler came back and murmured something in Tom’s ear‚ whereupon Tom frowned‚ pushed back his chair‚ and without a word went inside.

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    Night’s Wrath In the passage Night by Elie Wiesel‚ Wiesel reveals that during the hard times‚ you have the will to do what you believe in‚ through imagery and dialogue brings meaning of Elie and Juliek in their moments between life and death. First‚ when Juliek says “Alright Elizer…. I’m getting on all right…hardly any air.. worn out. My feet are swollen. It’s good rest‚ but my violin…” Dialogue reveals that Juliek still cares about his violin then anything else like food or even his own life

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    good in them. This quote is a key component of the play‚ as the play itself centres around the idea of deception and that what appears on the outside is not always a true reflection of what lies beneath. Macbeth; the brave‚ honourable‚ ambitious Thane of Cawdor‚ is ironically and evidently controlled by his wife Lady Macbeth. The two are arguably the chief instigators of deceit and “deception”. Macbeth is guilty of deceiving his best friend Banquo‚ his cousin King Duncan‚ as well as the public.

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    AP English II 9 June 2014 Night: Changes between Elie and his father The concentration camps had a very negative effect on the people who ran them and the people in them: “I had to appear cold and indifferent to events that must have wrung the heart of anyone possessed of human feelings”. The guards questioned the orders they were given but they blocked out their doubts and replaced them with a cold and prideful attitude towards their camps. Throughout the book Night and in the article Commanding

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    “BOOM”‚ “CRACKLE”‚ “POP”; the sound of gunshots rang off in the deep night; cold and unseen people dying everywhere around them‚ suffering‚ falling down from exhaustion. Elie kept running‚ almost running in his sleep. His only assurance that his father was still alive was the fact that he could hear the faint sound of his father’s voice behind him saying “Keep on running‚ don’t stop we’re almost there.” In the book‚ Night‚ Elie and his father are very torn and very distant in their relationship

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    Prominent themes in Night Night is a book that tells of a murder and a man’s inhumanity toward man. Wiesel saw his family‚ friends‚ and fellow Jews degraded and murdered. Wiesel also states in his book that God‚ to whom he was so devoted‚ was also “murdered” by Nazis. In the novel Wiesel changed a devout Jew to a broken young man who doubted his belief in God. A prevalent theme in Night is man’s inhumanity toward man. The concentration camps were full of horrific doings‚ like when the S.S Officers

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    Majority of humanity throughout history‚ revolves around the idea of fooling society through the use of misinterpretations with the art of deceptions. In the play The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare‚ as a result of preconceived judgement of worth allows for a disconnect between appearances and reality‚ ultimately highlights how items of lesser value can create powerful results. Set in Venice in the 1500’s with a civilization that possesses a different perspective of standards and beliefs

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    Joseph Artabane 4/3/13 Mr. Kanai English II A.M.D.G Father Son In Elie Wiesel’s autobiography “Night” the protagonist Elie has to choose whether to put his needs over his fathers and leave him to die and to strengthen his own chance of survival or let himself struggle to try and keep his father alive. This choice is so hard for a 16 year old boy to make by himself. His love for his father and all he has done for him makes him want to stay‚ but his constant hunger and own survival is on the

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    The play twelfth night‚ though largely a comedy‚ has it’s fair share of challenges and obstacles which it’s characters face throughout the plot. These revolve around love‚ honour and the death and loss of loved ones. However one character stands out to me as having faced the most difficult and trying of challenges‚ yet emerged with her pride and dignity intact. She coped well with all the problems that were thrown at her with a quiet resilience far beyond her years‚ and is worthy of our admiration

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    November 26‚2012 1st period The novel that I have just read is called Night by Elie Wiesel. In Night‚ by Elie Wiesel the theme of the book is survival is evident throughout the novel. The importance of this is that Elie had to survive. He had to do anything possible to make sure he survived. Ellie got split up of from his mother and it was just he and his father and they had to survive. ‘Don’t kill yourself. There’s no hurry. But watch out. Don’t let the SS catch you.’[P.50]. This shows

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