In the memoir Night, a book about holocaust survivor’s experiences. The survivor is Elie Wiesel and the details of his experiences are described very well. There is a quote shown that is Wiesel’s poem Never Shall I Forget. The quote significant because it shows how Elie Wiesel experienced and felt when he was first transported to Auschwitz.
The poem “Nightmares”, by Sammy Lupo, is about an inmate who was convicted for murder on death row and how that forever haunts him after the horrifying events are over. Kimel’s poem designate, how a man that survived the Holocaust, cannot forget the horrid events that happened and he wants everyone to be aware of the Holocaust and not forget it. The likenesses the poems share are that both author’s cannot forget the terrifying events they have experienced in their lifetime and both poems share a macabre tone. The particular differences are that the inmates poem was wrote before he died and Kimel survived and is hoping to make sure no one forgets the horrifying events of the Holocaust. Lupo was punished on a death row sentence for killing an
Trauma in Dawn and Men in the Sun. The theme of trauma is addressed differently b y the authors of Men In The Sun and Dawn , though there have a few similarities , Gahssan Kanafani in Men In The Sun gives the readers a detailed description of not only the social realities , but the political and human ones as well that characterize the basic lives of the Palestinian people during a critical point in their history when the structure of their existence, as well as the traditional order have been significantly altered by the regional as well as international events .The author describes trauma by showing the struggles and hardships that are undergone by Abu Qais , Marwan and Assa who are all in the quest for a better life . Similarly, in Dawn, Elsie describes the wait of two men for a murder that is scheduled to take place in Dawn.
Therefore both authors use diction and syntax to convey the differing themes of remembering and forgetting to the reader. Primarily, these two texts’ themes of remembering and forgetting are explored through varying syntax in “Once
To convey a sense of life and memory within war society, Paul Fussell analyzes the British experience on the western front from 1914 to 1918. By doing this, he uses literature, such as poems, literary narratives, satires, memoirs, and letters. Fussell outlines his focus to that of trench life within the British war memory, asserting that this book extends beyond the war itself, instead, looking at the war’s impact on literature, society, and remembrance. Fussell claims that through literature, a more constructive memory of the Great War develops, a war that he argues has fundamentally altered the basis of language and literature when invoking memory. By using literary devices such as irony, metaphors, personification, and myths that provoke emotion, the poems and writings of soldiers conspire a form of remembrance that allows them to process the experiences of trench warfare.
Using distinctively visual, sensory language and dramatic devices in texts allows the reader and audience to view as well as participate and relate to different emotions. In the fictional play “Shoe Horn Sonata” written by John Misto, 1995, Misto sets the scene by using dramatic devices to address the extremely confronting circumstances that the protagonists, Sheila and Bridie experience. Similarly, in the poem “Beach Burial” by Kenneth Slessor, 1944, Slessor too uses extremely strong visual language on the subject of war to overcome the gruesome realities of the subject matter. Misto’s play “Shoe Horn Sonata” shares the impacting journey two young women are forced to face, spending 1287 days in captivity in a Sumatran war camp, during world war two.
The Mindfulness Enhances Episodic Memory Performance article talks about the effects of mindfulness on attention and working memory. The article talks about the three studies which used different methods to examine whether mindfulness would enhance episodic memory. The first study is correlational study, check the benefit and characteristics of mindfulness in episodic memory performance in the Remember- Know (R-K) paradigm. The second study evaluates the usefulness of trait and state mindfulness on episodic memory experimentally. The third study check s whether brief training in focused attention (FA) mindfulness training, relative to both normative and distracted states of mind.
Though there is little danger of forgetting that heartbreaking day, she worries that even she will still forget. She expresses these worries while writing her poem “Going to Work”. She does this by using three poetic devices within her poem: personification, imagery, and symbolism. Within Mercado’s poem “Going to Work” she reflects on her memories of the twin towers before the attack using personification; giving human-like qualities to the twin towers to further illustrate on her memories of them.
Dylan Nguyen Mr. Ali AAC English 9 February 2023 The Power of Memory “Remembrance” by Tawnysha lynch is a poem about the speakers cruel memories of her time as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp, the largest nazi concentration camp during World War two, responsible for the violent deaths of millions of jews. The speaker is drawn back to her vivid memories as she stands in the midst of Auschwitz, and the imprint of her recollections revolves back to her, and at that moment, her memories became reality. The power of memory can be seen negatively affecting the speaker by bringing her back to the harrowing memories she experienced, and marking the past with haunting reminders, with the usage of imagery and flashbacks. Through the words of the speaker, and her methods of using literary devices, it is easy to understand the emotions she felt as the power of memory forced her to relive the horrifying memories she had while imprisoned in Auschwitz.
In October 1905, James Joyce wrote “Araby” on an unnamed narrator and like his other stories, they are all centered in an epiphany, concerned with forms of failures that result in realizations and disappointments. The importance of the time of this publication is due to the rise of modernist movement, emanating from skepticism and discontent of capitalism, urging writers like Joyce to portray their understanding of the world and human nature. With that being said, Joyce reflects Marxist ideals through the Catholic Church’s supremacy, as well as the characters’ symbolic characterization of the social structure; by the same token, psychoanalysis of the boy’s psychological and physical transition from one place, or state of being, to another is
In Wild Thorns, Sahar Khalifeh uses the absurdities of war to emphasize how the Palestinian Occupation is a war within the Palestinian community, and between the Palestinian and Israeli community. The product of such an environment is the psychological factors of tension, helplessness, sacrifice, and solidarity. Khalifeh’s characters from the Palestinian city of Nablus express these behaviors. Through her bittersweet novel, she invites readers to assess how the Occupation creates an individual to distort cultural values, and how their selfish acts destroy the loves of the group of people they surround themselves by.
When a love story is told in a first-person perspective, it makes sense for the readers to expect an overly dramatic and emotional narrative. James Joyce’s “Araby” and T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” are both love experiences written in first-person perspectives. However, in “Araby”, the boy occasionally assumes a somewhat detached attitude in his narration and in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, Prufrock sings his love song in a dry, passive manner. When the boy in “Araby” explains about the name of the girl he fell in love with, he says “her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood” (2169). Although this statement might sound passionate, identifying his love-evoked reaction as foolishness and not providing the readers with the girl’s name expresses the boy’s current state of
The biological approach to the basis of memory is explained in terms of underlying biological factors such as the activity of the nervous system, genetic factors, biochemical and neurochemicals. In general terms memory is our ability to encode, store, retain and recall information and past experiences afterwards in the human brain. In biological terms, memory is the recreation of past experiences by simultaneous activation or firing of neurons. Some of the major biopsychological research questions on memory are what are the biological substrates of memory, where are memories stored in the brain, how are memories assessed during recall and what is the mechanism of forgetting. The two main reasons that gave rise to the interest in biological basis of memory are that researchers became aware of the fact that many memory deficits arise from injuries to the brain.
Her figurative language directs the audience not only to see the images of what she was observing, but also to fill our ears with the elaborate sounds. She brings her journal to life by using figurative language to carefully describe her emotional feelings. "Pay my respect”, “black coats”, “little cemetery", "unbelievable". Her description goes as follows; the sound of the construction site, the moist air of March, the touch of the aluminum being pressed, the taste of pastrami sandwiches being made and the sight of Ground Zero filled with its solemn visitors.
There is always a sense of nostalgia and belonging to the homeland. For example, the words of Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) express nostalgia for a past that every Palestinian has experienced. In the wake of the events that happened in 1948, Al-Nakbah emerged in Palestinian literature as a concept that signifies an unbridgeable break between the past and the present. The Palestinians’ loss of the homeland becomes the loss of paradise.
