Behind the Blue and Gray BY:Aayush Agrawal In the book,Behind the Blue and Gray, Delia Ray claims that life during the war was gruesomely difficult. Fighting and surviving was a lethal occupation. It didn’t matter what side you were on. Ray describes that some struggles during the war were camp life, rations of food, medical treatment, nature, worries about family, punishments, and life after the war. The book provides evidence to a soldiers hardships.
Despite my sheer amazement at how quickly life can turn sour, Irene’s perseverance gives me hope that overcoming difficulties is never impossible. I was washed over with relief when Irene returned to her family. It was reasonable that she had no high hopes of ever seeing her parents again, but fate brought them to her aunt’s house in Radom, and Irene’s intelligence and determination led her from Soviet interrogators to where she deserved to be. Simply reading of Irene’s imprisonment and interrogations gave me anxiety, but I knew she was not a
In Night the families were split up and in Between Shades of Gray they were able to stay together. Also in Night the officers killed majority of them and in Between Shades of Gray the NKVD didn’t really kill them. Now there was also many similarities between Night and Between Shades of Gray. They were both working long hours for little food which caused many people to die of malnourishment.
Many people have learned about the Holocaust throughout the years, but learning about it from a primary source is a whole different experience. A scary journey that turned out to be the Holocaust has been told by two individuals that survived. These two stories tell the reader what life was like and what they went through. Even though the conditions were terrible, both Eli and Lina were able to survive and break away through fear, horrendous experiences, and hope that lead them to surviving and leaving people they cared about behind.
While we often blame the support of communists, especially high-level communists such as Rudolf Margolius, for the violence that is enacted by the Czech communist party, Kovaly explains that they are also just pawns in the Soviet system. She tells us her husband’s reaction to the arrests where he explains his strong support of communism: “I cannot give up my conviction that my ideal is essentially sound and good, just as I cannot explain why it has failed- as it apparently has…If you’re right, if it really is a fraud, then I’ve been an accomplice in a terrible crime. And if I had to believe that, I could not go on living”. This statement shows us how desperate Rudolf really was, as his communist party was showing its true colors as corrupt and unstable. In lectures, we often heard the terrors pushed by the communists, such as totalitarianism, which is the use of political terror to control every aspect of people’s lives and linked nazism and Soviet communism together.
Mitko by Garth Greenwell has a wonderful verbal energy with beautiful yet gritty poetic imagery. It explores the nameless protagonist's desire and obsession. The story branches from tragedy and romance forcing the main character to have a bit of tormented lust for Motko. The speaker was caught between his longing and lust for a detached character that was hard to read as much has the protagonist could understand from Mitko’s fragmented speeches.
In Art Spiegelman's Maus I and Maus II -- a graphic novel biography of his father -- he depicts Vladek in a manner that both supports as well as challenges Horace's belief that adversity brings out hidden talents that would have otherwise lain dormant. While adversity helps him grow as a person, it later goes on to hurt him in the end. In the beginning of Maus I, Spiegelman portrays a young and curious version of his father, Vladek. As time progresses, life around him begins to crumble.
Zinczenko appealed to his character and the reader’s character as well by establishing a connection with him or her. This connection between the reader and the writer will ensure the reader that although the writer is well educated and is successful, he did too suffered from situation at some point in his life. Zinczenko admitted that he felt pity for the “portly fast-food patrons” because like them he used to be one of them at a certain point in his life (paragraph 2). This appeal to the write’s character crates a sympathetic connection between the writer and the reader. This confession of David Zinczenko showed his vulnerable side to the audience who would be reading the opinion column of the New York Times.
The author uses real historical event from World War II to make the story more realistic. Sepety uses unfamiliar Russian vocabulary to make the reader feel like they’re in the story. For example, of the historical used in the story, In our first informational text, “Lithuanians by the Laptev Sea” by Violeta Kelertas it informs, “One after another overfilled convoys moved eastward transporting great masses of people,” In the novel it informs, “I counted the people- forty-six packed in a cage on wheel, maybe a rolling coffin.” Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepety is a emotional and mental roller coaster.
Based on soldiers’ memoirs published decades after the Stalin’s era and augmented by articles from official newspapers, interviews, letters diaries, and official documents in Russian archives, Krylova first traces the historical background of which highly
In this quote “ He killed it! my father killed it!” (Lowery p150 ch19). Jonas just found out what release actually was and his father was one of those who killed them.
Segrei Kirov, one of the Leningrad party leaders, was murdered on
“I'm of that generation of Jews still deeply influenced by the Holocaust. Certainly the notion that the state power to kill can be subject to such extraordinary abuse is always lurking beneath the surface for me. Certainly my experience and identity as a Jew is there,” a quote said by Scott Turow, an American author and lawyer. The Holocaust is tragedy that scarred not only the survivors, but generations to come; it also erased part of the future.
For example, in her analysis of Isak Dinesen’s “The Blank Page” Susan Gubar adopts the metaphor of “the blank page” to stress how women’s history silenced by the patriarchy can be subversive. “The Blank Page” is narrated on a wedding night where the stained sheets of princesses are displayed with their names to prove their virginity. Among these stained sheets is a plain white sheet with a nameless plate. “Dinesen’s blank page,” writes Gubar, “becomes radically subversive, the result of one woman’s deficiency which must have cost either her life or her honor [is] Not a sign of innocence or purity or passivity, this blank page is a mysterious but potent act of resistance” (89). The blank page shows the silence of women but it proves female resistance
Raskolnikov’s accumulating debt owed to his landlord prevents him from moving outside of Saint Petersburg and causes massive emotional damage. Each time he leaves his apartment, he fears seeing his landlady, The stress and anxiety arising from the debt he owes to his landlord causes him to become unruly and he had, “fallen into a state of nervous depression akin to hypochondria,” feeding into his detachment from society. Not only does Raskolnikov’s living situation seem grim, but his room itself furthers his emotional detachment from society. Raskolnikov’s room allows him to dehumanize himself.
