Night By Elie Wiesel Taylor Brennan October 2014 Period 6 Senior English Ms. Scimone/Hagis Chapter 1 DOK Questions: 1. Identify one character trait of Elie’s father. Elie’s father doesn’t display his feelings‚ and he is rather distant from his family. 2. Organise the events from 1941-1944. 1941: Elie meets Moishe the Beatle when he is 13. 1942: All foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet‚ including Elie’s friend‚ Moishe. 1943: Daily bombings of Germany and Stalingrad
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is a wall‚ like a puppeteer’s screen. People move along the wall‚ carrying models of objects and people. Some of those carrying the models are talking. | | | The prisoners can see the shadows moving along the wall‚ and hear the people talking. From the prisoners’ perspective‚ the shadows are reality. | | | One day a prisoner escapes. He looks towards the cave’s entrance. Fantasized by the sun’s light‚ he realizes that the objects he sees in the light are the real versions of the shadows he
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1. The cave represents an individual reality. The prisoners only seem to react to the information presented to them. Since they never left the cave they only know the shadows presented to them of things passing by. 2. The shadows represent a blurred perception of reality. If an individual believes that what you see should be perceived as the truth‚ then you are looking at a shadow of what the truth actually is. The prisoners interpret the shadows as things that are real‚ people who have a dim view
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Idea. In the cave there are prisoners. These prisoners cannot move because they are restrained by chains. The only thing that they can see is a wall that illuminated by a great light. This light is actually a fire behind them‚ which has a low sitting wall in between itself and the prisoners. As men walk below the wall holding up objects made out of every type of materials and in all sorts of shapes‚ the shadows of these shapes are placed on the wall in front of the prisoners. The low wall serves as a
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or turn their heads. The only thing they saw was a wall right in front of their eyes. Behind them there was a path‚ and behind the path there was a fire at a distance. Men were carrying wooden animals‚ statues‚ figures‚ and vessels. Those chained prisoners saw nothing but shadows in front of them. They thought that all sounds were coming from those shadows.
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In Plato’s "Allegory of the cave" the believed perception of reality is portrayed through images of shadows on a wall‚ in a cave‚ where the only existence of reality is what is seen in front of one’s eyes. In today’s present-day the shadows still exist and are depicted in a different form of media through television‚ computers‚ movies‚ and ones personal cell phone. All which are a big part of our daily life. We all have a choice to accept the realities given to us and believe in the shadows created
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Plato’s parable. Why can’t they move their legs or necks to take a look around? What is the only thing they are capable of seeing? What is their only source of light? 14. What do these prisoners trapped in the cavern believe is real? 15. How do the prisoners react when they first see sunlight? 16. Why will the prisoner need time to adjust to the world outside the cave? 17. According to Plato‚ how would the people in the cave react to an escapee who tried to explain the truth to them‚ or who came down
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The ideas of Plato’s Allegory of the cave and The Truman show describe different views of life. In the Plato’s allegory‚ every person is a prisoner. they live in a world of shadows. what they think is true is not real.the Prisoners believe that their lives in the cave are what is real.The prisoner who escaped first comes back to explain to the other prisoners about the real world. They cannot believe him because they have never seen anything but the cave. Truman and Plato’s work are similar and they
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perceptions of reality. Focusing specifically on The Allegory of the Cave and The Matrix‚ there are many similarities between the questionable perceptions described in each story. In The Allegory of the Cave‚ Socrates paints a picture of a group of prisoners that have been confined to a dark
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When the freed prisoner was pulled “...suddenly out of the sun to be replaced in his old situation; would he not be certain to have his eyes full of darkness?” The hero‚ or the freed prisoner‚ would have transformed with the knowledge that the special world exists. Thus‚ the freed prisoner not being able to adjust to home‚ or the ordinary world. Socrates believed that the journey to the special world
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