How To Write A Critical Essay On Night

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Serious events, such as war, can be so impactful that people affected by them feel they need to express their experiences for the world to better understand. For example, Elie Wiesel was encouraged to write Night to show the world the cruelty he experienced as a child in concentration camps during the Holocaust. In this novel, he describes the memories of the camps during his childhood that deeply impacted him as he and his father were forced to stay in concentration camps under Nazi government control. Another novel that portrays a child's harsh experience with war is Marjane Satrapi’s, Persepolis, which was also written from a child’s perspective. Throughout this graphic novel, Satrapi talks about her life as a child who was going through …show more content…

According to the article, Elie is forced to transform from a scared boy to a teen who does anything to protect himself and his father, “Eliezer is not a rebellious teenager, but, instead, he is one with a conscience”. In this section of the article, Sanderson talks about Eliezer’s abrupt change into an “adult” after he abandoned his religion and cared for his father as he was unwell, creating a switch in roles and identities. Although Eliezer's change in identity was abrupt and dramatic, Marjane's identity slowly changed as moments in her life began to build up, causing her to slowly lose faith. Although Marjane’s religion is a key factor in her identity, the harrowing realities of conflict, such as propaganda and oppression, began to affect her identity as she slowly lost faith. These consequences of the war eventually caught up to Marjane and she began to lose sight of her faith as the war continued to rage on. “I wanted to be justice, love, and the wrath of God all in …show more content…

Expressing the theme of identity and impactful religions, Daisy Gard created a critical essay that summarized, analyzed, and described Persepolis as a “coming-of-age story”. According to the document, Persepolis is a coming-of-age story that describes the change in Marjane's identity as she loses faith in her religion. Looking back to the story, this is an accurate description because Marjane starts the story as a faithful child, but then the war starts, causing conflicts such as being oppressed because of her religion. Even though the war was devastating, the event that caused Marjane to stray away from her religion completely was the bombing of Baba-Levy’s house. This major point in her life caused her to act out in school and left her uncertain of how to live her life the same. As a result of the novel and the critical essay, readers can identify how her religion caused her identity to stray from a positive, childish person, to a petulant teenager. Comparing Night and Persepolis can impact readers in so many