In “Midnight Rising,” Tony Horwitz grips works of history that prod essential and enduring American themes of race, faith, individualism, violence, and social justice. Horwitz’s book breaks down the life of John Brown, an antislavery warrior. John Brown was raised in a very strong in his Calvinism faith that was instilled in him by his father, Owen Brown. Owen Brown made sure that John was raised properly with a strong heart of faith in Calvinism. Calvinism is “a faith ever vigilant against sin and undue attachment to the things of this world (9).”
Imagine that you are at home playing video games, your dad comes in and tells you that your favorite cousin, your best friend, died. He was murdered. What would you do? Well, Jay was in this exact situation, and here is what he did and how he got through it. Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay uses such a familiar writing style, it keeps the reader fully interested.
In The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman employs the hero archetype and a situational archetype of the journey to craft his story. The Graveyard Book follows the adolescence of a living boy named Bod, who can see and interact with ghosts in the graveyard where he lives. Bod is the hero of this narrative as he demonstrates qualities associated with the hero archetype, such as his resilience, courage, and determination. These characteristics aid him in discovering the truth about his identity and dealing with the beings that killed his parents and are pursuing him. The drive of Bod adds purpose and direction to the story while simultaneously displaying the human spirit of overcoming adversity.
The book NightJohn, by Gary Paulsen, proves that education is important and should be valued. The book is about slavery; Sarny, a 13 year old slave, is living on a plantation when another slave, John, was bought. John really values education, so he teaches Sarny how to read and write; this is proven when John said to Sarny: “It means A—just like I said. it's the first letter in the alphabet” (Paulsen 38). John wants to teach Sarny how to read because John values education, and he wants the slaves to be able to share their story when they get out.
The Truth of the Enslaved Surely, slavery was the most pervasive single issue in our past. In the historical “fiction” Nightjohn, by Gary Paulsen, the characters find ways to maneuver through their master’s system to learn and work together. John is a slave who started teaching Sarny, a young girl, to read and write.
The Holocaust was entitled as the worst act of genocide in history. Emotionally the Nazi 's tortured the Jews for years in concentration camps deprived them of their named and identity. Although there are many themes represented in the holocaust art and literature, struggle to maintain faith is present in the passage from Elie Wiesel 's Night, Judith dazzios "A day in the life of the Warsaw ghetto "and Alexander Kimels "The action in the ghetto of rohatyn" "Silence in the Jews Ghetto" It was a very bad time from the start for the Jews. They were brutally punished by the Nazi 's for no apparent reason.
The book, Midnight Rising by Tony Horwitz, was about John Brown and the upcoming events that led him to the raid of Harpers Ferry. John Brown was an American who strongly believed in the abolishment of slavery in the United States. The author’s purpose of this book was to go into depth about John Brown and what he did that contributed to spark the Civil War. When Tony Horwitz wrote about the loss of Brown’s children and it made him depressed, I liked that Horwitz mentions earlier losses and his emotions that later contributed to the loss of his children that resulted him to a highly commitment of slavery abolishment.
Night is a book reflected through the author’s emotions—visually, mentally, and physically. These emotions are condensed within the theme of Night, which was his loss of religious faith. The theme itself was reflected off the author’s experiences, hence the necessity of author’s craft. Elie Wiesel’s experiences of losing his father (physically and mentally) and watching innocent adults and children die (visually and physically) develops how the author is telling the story. In his loss of religious faith, he questioned God: “Why should I bless His name?
Imagine What Would Happen if Everyone Had Passion Nightjohn, written by Gary Paulsen, is the story of a man named Nightjohn, an American slave living in the Southern States. Brought to the Waller plantation with whip slashes and a rope tied to his neck—he was here for one reason and one reason only. He was here with the determination to teach slaves how to read. No matter the risk, he was going to spread his gift that most didn’t have. Through his work, Nightjohn realizes that dedication can help you finish what you start—never give up on your goals.
In Elie Wiesel’s book Night, and Martin Niemoller's Poem, First they came for the communist, and the excerpts from Eve Bunting’s, Terrible Things. The authors present these in similar themes. These all relate to the Holocaust in many ways. They are all depressing and mournful in the same way. In Wiesel’s book, the Jews and the men from Gestapo were put on trains and all sent to a forest.
The Effects of Suffering on a 12 year Old Boy “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars” - Khalil Gibran. Throughout Night, Elie Wiesel copes with the agony of the Holocaust first hand. Suffering by definition is the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship. In Wiesel’s Night, suffering forces people to make inhumane decisions, shatters hope, and destroys self identity. Suffering forces people to be put in bad places where they feel pressured to eventually make inhumane decisions.
The road to a relationship with God is not straight, it is ever changing with challenges and curves and ups and downs. This is a main theme in the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, where Elie has a struggling relationship with God. He thinks that God has abandoned him and his dad so he does not feel the need to continue his relationship with God. Elie was excited about his faith but the holocaust makes him feel angry and confused with God. Elie 's faith excites him from a young age and he wants to learn more about God.
Night John The book of Night John is about a slave that was free but went back to teach the other slaves to read and write. The slave name is John he’s the one how is teaching slaves to read and write. There is girl that is a slave and she learns how to read and write. Her name is Sun and she learns how to read and write from John. The themes that I cous was freedom, getting along with others, and leadership.
The themes found in this short story are supernatural, society vs. the individual, a new type of hero (little man crushed by larger forces) Supernatural because after Akakii dies, a ghost that is hunting people’s coats on the Kalinkin Bridge appears, and the rumor of its existence spreads all over St. Petersburg. The ghost takes revenge on society and takes the coats of anything he sees, whether is a civil or someone with power. The ghost exists and everyone knows that, the see him, and even almost caught him. The theme of supernatural shows that death comes to everyone regardless of their status, and is inevitable. Society vs. the individual because Akakii struggles to fit in society since he is born.
To say that the ideas of Shakespeare still do not resonate in each generation today would be inaccurate. There is no doubt that Shakespeare had the power to manipulate words into plays and evoke certain images, that are so powerful that they are still commonly performed today, as mentioned in the article, “William Shakespeare’s Impact on Theatre,” and CNN’s video, “Shakespeare gets a high-tech makeover.” In fact, the contributions Shakespeare made to the English vocabulary have gone overlooked in the younger generations, for many people in Generation Z do not even recognize that what they are quoting stems from the works of Shakespeare, as mentioned in Hephzibah Anderson’s article, “How Shakespeare influences the way we speak now.” Despite there being
