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Imagery Of The Hole In The Wall By Elie Wiesel

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Throughout the entirety of the novel the author uses different types of imagery. All being from the protagonist, Pellys point of view inside her own mind; in which in a way is the original antagonist through the novel. Some of theses where she is describing her actions and things going on around her as she saw them. Others however are her recalling events that happened in the past with detail on how it was when she experienced it then. The first in depth description was when she was describing, her workplace, the Hole. “The Hole in the Wall sits in an old residential neighborhood in downtown Phoenix, about a mile from my condo. Most of the houses around here have been torn down, but a few—like the Hole—were renovated into businesses. Eli kept many of the rooms in the little one-story building, and designed each one with its own sort of personality. One was …show more content…

In this the author gives Pelly the feeling of being detached and empty while speaking about things, which is a common theme throughout the book. This makes sense seeing as due to Pellys past, her personality becomes more guarded and closed off. Still towards the end of the description how she speaks of the Hole begins to sound more that of fondness as she calls the shop a, “Quirky indie snarky pop-culture …show more content…

Seeing as Tara was kidnapped at the age of ten, while with Pelly, it had caused Pelly lots trauma. So just when she was close to giving up hope yet still grieving the loss of her best friend, seeing a person who had a similar appearance caused her to believe that it truly was her. Then determined to save her, seeing as she blames herself for Taras kidnapping, she goes and hyper analyzes everything about the man, his car, and the possibility of getting Tara

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Holes 1. Stanley keeps walking towards the mountain because he feels that there is water there, and he also wants to find Zero. The whole reason Stanley left was because he was worried about Zero. I guess he felt responsible because if he had said no to Zero about digging his hole, none of this would have happened. Before he left to find Zero, he kept asking himself “what if it’s not too late” as in he could still save Zero and maybe he didn’t die.

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Between the images of fire, night, and death one that shows up often is death. Death is the image that shows up the most because it is basically what started the whole Holocaust. Hitler and his party’s agenda was to kill of all the Jews. It is also the main focus through the book because many of the Jewish prisoners knew what was supposed to happen to them in the camps. Every single one of them saw the death of many people first hand.

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Jeannette Walls is a very influential writer and has written many stories and books, Also including a book called “The Glass Castle.” Jeannette Walls lives in Park Avenue, New York. She has very nice apartment with many expensive and old things in side. Her mom is homeless and walls doesn’t like that and wants and tries to help her. Her mom goes dumpster diving to find things that still have value still left in them.

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Elie Wiesel has a somber mood in the text ‘Night’. He does this by using imagery and symbolism, Wiesel does this so curiously, as not to plunge into a sad mood, but slowly eases the reader into the despair. The author describes a boy as “angel faced” that slowly moves towards a tragic ending. The angel is a power symbol throughout all cultures, and using that symbol to be placed onto a boy, and expressed through imagery creates a sense of dread and despair. Eliezer depicts a young boy to a “sad faced angel”, in the sense that the boy seems holy, and innocent, yet being in a labor camp, reinforces our idea that the Nazis have no respect for anything good or sacred in the world.

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It was in Auschwitz during 1944, at the time of arrival about midnight when the smell of burning flesh saturated the air. There was an unimaginable nightmare of a truck unloading small children and babies thrown into the flames. This is only one event in its entirety of endless events to be remembered in order to understand how deeply literal and symbolic the book entitled Night by Elie Wiesel is. The novel brings light to the reader about what the Jews faced while in fire, hell and night; nonetheless, the author portrays each and every day during this year as a night in hell of conflagration. "Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes."

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The Thing in the Forest by A.S. Byatt is a fairytale like story that takes place during World War II. It captivates its reader with a mysterious lack of detail, keeping the fairytale aspect up to the imagination. Through symbolism, metaphors, and juxtaposing character development, Byatt shows how war and trauma kills childhood innocence. This story is about two young girls, Penny and Primrose, who are sent away from home during World War II for safety.

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Insert title here To you and me night is a time of rest, a time of safety, and a time to put all our troubles behind us, for Elie night was feared, his troubles would follow him even through the night. The book night was written by Elie Wiesel in 1956 and is about the hardships that the Jews had to face. What is so significant about night? Why is the book called night? Night and darkness symbolize a world without god’s presence and for elie night, was very dark.

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On page 155 of Jeanette Walls’ memoir, Glass Castle, Walls describes how after the family settles down in Welch, she and her brother Brian decide to make the best of the situation they are in. Ninety-three Little Hobart Street is a “dinky thing perched high up off the road on a hillside...painted white a long time ago, but...turned a dismal gray” (Walls 150). Jeanette and Brian scavenge a shovel and a pickaxe. Then, the two build the foundation for the the Glass Castle of their dreams behind the dingy home. After a month, their father orders the children to fill the foundation with garbage.

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Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy” (Joe Paterno). Tragedy is defined as an "event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident" when Elie went thought the holocaust his way of life and meaning of life dramatically changed for the worst. Elise process of change without World War 2 has shaped his faith, personality and his relationship with his father. Initially, Eliezer’s faith is a product of his studies in Jewish mysticism, which teach him that God is everywhere in the world, that nothing exists without God, that in fact everything in the physical world is an “emanation,” or reflection, of the divine world.

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The Explanation of the Story: “The Thing in the Forest” by A.S. Byatt In A.S. Byatt’s “The Thing in the Forest”, the author uses the elements of a short story to craft a dark, fairy tale. The title of the story, “The Thing in the Forest”, in the sense that it foreshadows the main idea of the story. The audience expects more than just a "thing", as listed in the title. Byatt emphasizes that the main characters are the two-main protagonist who were girls dealing with more than just a “thing” in the forest that affected them for the rest of their lives. this is the use of symbols that expresses a meaning to focus on the story.

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In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the female narrator is greatly troubled by the suppression of her imagination by her husband and her ultimate isolation due to this subordination. These feelings are reflected through the author’s use of setting as the narrator’s dreary and malicious descriptions of the house and the wallpaper mirrors her emotional position. Throughout the reading, the reader is exposed to the narrator’s in-depth loss of touch with reality as she sinks further and further into her own reality. As she becomes more isolated, her descriptions of the house become more abstract as she begins to focus on the wallpaper and starts to see herself as being hidden behind it.

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“Despite the growing darkness, I could see my father turn pale.” (Pg. 12) “We would no longer have to look at all those hostile faces, endure those hate-filled stares. No more fear. No more anguish.”

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