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Elie Wiesel's Inherit The Wind

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“A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong”. This quote was said by an esteemed chief of the Shawnee tribe,Tecumseh. This quote is not only used by tecumseh, but also represents the issue of individual versus society in the books Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee and Night by Elie Wiesel. The single stick represents the individual, who does not have the strength or power to overrule society. Society is represented by the bundle of stick, who has power and is strong because it has many people, sticks, apart of it. In both books the individual is challenging society. There is always the same winner though, which is society. It is possible that the individual can have a lot of power, there is never enough because …show more content…

Many famous figures, who represented their society, such as Hitler or Matthew Harrison Brady from Inherit the Wind were very influential when speaking. Most of the time their speeches were so influential that people would switch their opinions on that certain situation. This is exactly how Hitler convinced most of Germany that the Nazi plan to destroy, invade countries, and annihilate the Jewish religion was a good idea. In Inherit the Wind Matthew Harrison Brady convinced people over to what the rest of society believed by influential speeches in court. He convinced a lot of people that Bertram Cates was a felon and committed a crime by teaching his beliefs or darwinism. This show that society has the power to get more power and the individual is left with barely …show more content…

In inherit the wind Bertram Cates challenged the larger society by teaching his beliefs in darwinism. He knew that this was wrong, but when tried in court he tried to convince society to change and push them to believe that what he did was not wrong. “But your client is wrong. He is deluded. He has lost his way.” “My friends of Hillsboro, you know why I have come here. I have not come merely to prosecute a lawbreaker, an arrogant youth who has spoken out against the Revealed Word”. In this part of the book it shows how the people did not open up to this change because they thought darwinism was evil. Society is the one that trained them to think like this, that it is evil and the only correct religion was

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Their beliefs led them to be unmoved by the feedback of their peers. Towards the end his novel, Thoreau remained an overly negative character whose beliefs remain unscathed in the social conflicts he endured. In a similar situation, McCandless shares the same ideals as Thoreau, as his literary collection noted quotes by Thoreau. Despite all of the people he met along the way, no one made a persuasion effective enough to change his mind or view on his transcendentalist views. Treadwell’s ideas can be used in comparison as he was very headstrong in his notions.

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When reading the book “night” by Elie Wiesel, you can never be sure something is to be set in stone. Even the characters drastically change from societies previous distorted visions of a Jew to the primordial beast that dwells over the basic components of survival itself. For example, a selfless and cultured man known as Eliezer’s father is forced to adapt himself into a man so full of sorrow not even his own wife would be able to recognize him. What did this? Many may say it was the loss of God.

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In this town there was no respect for that which led the townspeople to close themselves off to anything that was not taught in the bible. It led Reverend Brown to lead the townspeople inadequately. The townspeople were relying on Reverend Brown to lead them and that is not wrong of them but the only problem here was that they did not know how to think for themselves. They were so closed minded to new ideas that everything outside the doctrine was wrong. To think freely is to be able to open your mind to new depths, it does not mean you have to agree to them or believe in them it just means that you are able to see out of the lense of someone

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Hitler and his Nazis were not the only ones accountable for the death of six million Jews, bystanders are also responsible. This is one of the themes explored in the memoir, Night by Eliezer Wiesel, which tells of the horrific experiences he went through as a Jew during the Holocaust. He does this by sharing his struggles Wiesel hopes to encourage his audience by recounting the lessons he learned during the darkest days of his life to avoid being bystanders by observing, speaking out, and not conforming. When a person is observant they are able to sense changes in advance even when based on the most minute of details.

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In a situation where your body is surviving on a thread, your stomach is inflated due to starvation and all the strength you had before is gone, you have to rely on mental and religious strength to carry you through your hardships. In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, Elie talks about his personal experiences and hardships he faced during WWII and his life at Auschwitz as a young boy. Throughout the story Elie pushes through losing his mother and sister, lashings, seeing babies burned alive and the fear of death but also the hope for it in some situations. No amount of physical strength can help someone survive in the brutal place Auschwitz. Everywhere in the story Elie and other characters show that with mental and religious/spiritual strength, you can push through any hardship you have to face.

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Characterization in Inherit the Wind ​Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, the play Inherit the Wind is a fictitious spin off of the historical Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, which hotly debated the concept of evolutionism vs. creationism and, in general, a person’s right to think. In the play, a young man by the name of Bert Cates is prosecuted for teaching evolution in school and breaking the state’s “creation-only” law. His case is taken to court where he fights against the highly exalted paragon of religious devotion, Matthew Harrison Brady. Henry Drummond, an almighty but rather infamous attorney, stands by and defends Cates throughout the whole trial. In the midst of this all, Cates’ lover, Rachel Brown, is torn between her love

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This shows how the power roles have changed throughout the novel, where at first the conch held the symbol of democracy, but now that the faith in it has dissolved, the conch is just a shell thrown around in the monarchy holding Jack as ruler. Throughout the novel, many items and people change as power rolls in between their hands. Consequently there comes a time when an object loses power completely, yet even in destruction it may

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A relationship between a father and a son is a sacred bond, one created at birth and strengthened over time. This paternal relationship is core to the value of family, a likewise bond of faith and trust. Such bonds are tested during times of hardship and pain, seen most clearly during times of war. During the events of World War II, and the gruesome events of the Holocaust, this truth was never more true. Through works such as the memoir Night, by survivor Elie Wiesel, and the artistry of the 1997 film Life is Beautiful, directed by Roberto Benigni, these times of hardships are kept alive in common memory.

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One major theme authors universally write their stories around concern the power of human relationships. Though writers may take different paths to communicate this, the strength that comes from these unique connections that exist between individuals resonates with everyone. Authors clearly articulate through a myriad of rhetorical devices that maintaining relationships is a fundamental part in personal growth and allows for a stronger sense of self. In finding companionship and comradery. people become capable of evolving and arriving at better understandings of who they are.

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Elie Wiesel’s somber speech, “The Perils of Indifference”, demonstrated the harsh reality of the numerous evils harvesting in the world. The main evil though was simply indifference, or a lack of concern. As a young Jewish boy, he faced the wickedness of the Holocaust, imprisoned at Buchenwald and Auschwitz and also losing both his parents and younger sister. The speaker saw atrocious horrors and suffered for a prolonged amount of time. Why was this permitted?

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The reader gets to join McCandless in his adventure across the country as he invents a new life for himself. He embraces the ideas and morals of Thoreau and Emerson in his journey. In the book, a man by the man by the name of Westerberg discusses about how McCandless is not destroying his possessions and journey around the wild because the wild he is suicidal or unintelligent. “You could tell right away that Alex was intelligent… He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.”

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Hawthorne skillfully shows how Calvinist epistemology shaped Goodman Brown’s psychology and descent into sin. He does this through employing deliberate ambiguity, allegory, and

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We see this in our daily life as we stop by McDonald's for a quick burger. We see this in the case of Kitty Genovese case when she was murdered and while watching her die her neighbors did not help. ` We also see this in our Declaration of Independance as we freed ourselves from the higher powers of the British government.. As a person in society we should try to be different and do what we would like to do not what others would approve us of doing.

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Persuasion has been used to not change the minds of people, but rather to make them . “Ethos, pathos, and logos are frequently used in the Declaration of Independence,” (Root). Historical figures have used the rhetorical technique of persuasion to change the path that history takes. In the 1770’s, the Declaration of Independence was signed to show that the America’s separated themselves from the Great Britains. “That they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is and ought to be totally Dissolved,” (pg 115 line 19).

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Basically, the communicators do not persuade people, the people persuade themselves. The communicators just clear the

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