Question 1: Night is a text with a significant amount of figurative language. Select 3 examples from the text to analyze. In analyzing each example, be sure to explain how the specific example impacts the text. (How does it affect the reader? , how does it affect the reading experience?
but it said no” (Levis 2-3). He would worry day after day and tried to bring the person to life but the person still remained sad. He even tried giving gifts to the person but still showed no interest. He says “I offered it all my money, my clothes, my car with a full tank. But the poem stared at the
At the end of the verse he writes, “But I need somebody here to talk me through, but who?” directly revealing that he is uncertain of who can help him by using a rhetorical question. Throughout this melancholy
In the beginning, he explains how God felt like a slammed door, but near the end, he states, “And so perhaps with God. I have gradually been coming to feel that the door is no longer shut and bolted. Was it my own frantic need that slammed it in my face? The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just the time when God can’t give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs.” He is moving on from doubts in the confusion to slowly untangling his grief.
Vallejo continues by displaying an acute message, painful frustration at being unable to determine why life is so hard. This would interpret that not only difficulties of life can take a toll physically, but mentally as well and lead you to question why our lord and savior continues to be blind or to assist with our derailments in life. Vallejo’s thinking of God could be looked at as unorthodox. Most refrain from having an unorthodox kind of mentality about God. Most usually, worship, praise, pray, and see God as a true savior of humankind and that God is always there by our side.
It appeal to metaphor because he felt awful when someone
It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice.”(26). In this part of the book it just shows that he doesn’t really care if others suffer as long as he accomplishes what he wants.
Overall, this passage teaches readers that although one may be struggling to stay alive working in a cotton field as long as they keep their faith in God, he will take care of all their
Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning” (English Standard Version). This shows that God can help in any moment of somebody’s life. He can change everything in the blink of an eye. The Bible talking about Depression is good for
The second stanza is strong reminders that while men pay more attention to the desires or their own mind, they fail to see their own failings in life. Only after their eyes became open would they seek help. A great representation of this is found starting in (21-22) where Jesus is alone, not called upon but forgotten, until the time in which mean realise they are downing and have no life vest to keep them afloat. An excellent example of this is (23-26) give reference to the only time that men would see their own demise is also the time in which they would seek help. Foolishly then thinking that even though they did not remember him till the end that they are still good men represented in the second refrain.
It says, “Holy God, who sent him victory…”(55 ). The author attempts to demonstrate that God gives victory to those who are on his side. Every battle between Heaven and Hell, Heaven has always won. This can also pertain to our lives. Everyday we battle the evil in our lives and with God, he sends us our victory when we turn to Him.
The short story very much comments on the pain and suffering humans inherently inflict on themselves and others. Le Guin explains that the phrase “man, alas” (homme hélas in French) can be derived from “Omelas.” Only Implying, in the title, that only the people who spur the unnecessarily harsh customs of human society have a possibility of finding peace within themselves and their community. For in today’s world, most humans only seem to find joy in misery and comfort in agony effectually ignore, incite, and inflict the anguish of others. Alas, “to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else.
However, at the point he was worried about his own life, nothing mattered to him, when the little girl walked up to him, there was no compassion in him. He was enclosed in his own thought; the presence of the girl brought him back to the world and made him conscious of the world around him. He began to have a different meaning to life. His conscience could not stop thinking about the little girl that he said “It seemed to me that I could not die now without having settled something first” he felt the need to look for the girl because she had saved him from killing himself.
As he, the Wanderer speaks kindly, he explains that “ A wise man must be patient not too hot of heart nor hasty of speech, not reluctant to fight nor too reckless, not too timid nor too glad, not too greedy, and never eager to commit until he can be sure. A man should hold back his boast until that time has come when he truly knows to direct his heart on the right path”. This quote reveals the acceptance aspect within the five stages of grief which he is experiencing throughout the poem. The Wanderer speaks of patience and how to be calm and in lack of better words, indifferent about quite a lot of things. This is a side of him which is more calm, understanding, and accepting.
Lamentations Sermon - Jeremiah is the author o In the Book of Jeremiah, he warns of the coming judgement on Jerusalem o Lamentations is Jeremiah identifying with the people in their sin and in their captivity now since they did not listen to the voice of God through Him before Lamentations 3v40-42, “Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord! 41 Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven: 42 “We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven.” • The biggest lesson is how to understand suffering - 1) God is Sovereign o God was the one behind everything that was happening 2:1-8, “How the Lord in his anger has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud! He has cast down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel;
