Goodbye Darkness is a memoir written by William Manchester. Manchester was a U.S. Marine in the Pacific during World War II. What truly made this book stand out for me was how deep it goes in philosophically. For instance, it talks about the concepts of survivor’s guilt. When on the patrol on the Guadalcanal, Manchester’s entire group that he fought with was struck by a Japanese mortar leaving him the only survivor.
The book Night by Elie Wiesel is about his experience as a young Jewish teenager, forced to survive the atrocities inflicted on Jews under HItler's rule during World War II. The story begins in Elie's hometown of Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. Night by Elie Wiesel is his recollection of life in concentration camps during the holocaust. The story begins in year is 1941. Elie's family is deeply religious and devout
In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter reflects upon his life as he grew up in rural Georgia. The memoir highlights the people who helped shape his life while he was attending school and working on his family’s farm. Throughout An Hour Before Daylight, Carter conveys the idea that racism is a learned behavior by utilizing regional dialect, vivid imagery, and unforgettable experiences to create tone and structure that allow the audience to truly understand what it was like to live in the South while segregation still existed. Within each chapter, Carter uses regional dialect to develop realistic characterizations of people who played a significant role in his upbringing.
In the book “Night” written by Ellie Wiesel, Wiesel explains how regardless of notices about German goals towards Jews, Eliezer's family and alternate Jews in the little Transylvanian town of Sighet neglect to escape the nation when they have a shot. Therefore, the whole Jewish populace is sent to death camps. There, in a camp called Auschwitz, Eliezer is isolated from his mom and more youthful sister, however stays with his dad. As Eliezer battles to get by against starvation and manhandle, he additionally thinks about the confidence in God's equity and fights with the darker sides of himself. Constrained into a frantic circumstance, Eliezer feels a contention between supporting his regularly debilitating father and giving himself the most obvious opportunity with regards to survival.
The poem “Morning” written by Billy Collins is written in free verse. There is no rhyming pattern or form. Also, the number of syllables per line and lines per section are inconsistent. Upon first reading the poem, one can assume that Collins is expressing that the morning is his favorite part of the day. Collins begins the poem by wondering why we even have the rest of the day.
If one is in a situation where speaking up against an injustice would result in being killed, what should they do? This theme is apparent in both the graphic novel Maus and the memoir Night as they focus on life during the holocaust for Jews. Maus by Art Spiegelman is the story of Art’s father Vladek and his experiences leading up to his capture and placement into the concentration camps. Night is a personal memoir by Elie Wiesel. The memoir guides the reader through Elie and his father’s experiences at concentration camps.
I love all the metaphors he made in this poem such as the ladder to heaven (apple-picking requires a level which Robert Frost was referring it to the ladder to heaven) and the seasonal interpretation (winter is death and spring is rebirth) that connects to the natural process of decaying and
Nature is around us, willingly or unwillingly, and it’s up to writers to be able to express their feeling for nature in any way possible. Different people have different ways of perceiving and interpreting nature. Some may view it as calming and peaceful, while others may perceive it as torturous. Nevertheless, the authors from the essay and the poem definitely have a good relationship with nature. As they describe in depth their feelings towards nature, it becomes more clear the differences that these authors have with their relationship with nature.
Although the narrator will mostly forget about his time in Paris as he travels back to America, he will forever be shaped and unconsciously controlled by his experiences in France, much like the rest of the world is shaped by their experiences. In James Baldwin’s short story “This Morning, This Evening, Too Soon”, in the days leading up to the narrator’s departure, one night as he is walking after a night out, the narrator is overwhelmed with lingering feelings of sadness as he watches Paris and all his people exist without him. He consequently ponders perhaps, “After departure only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love” (Baldwin 897). As the narrator leaves
"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" is about the narrator retelling a day sitting through an astronomy lecture, listening to the educated astronomer's dull mathematical explanations of the stars through charts and diagrams. In the middle of the lecture the narrator becomes sick and tired and strolls off to quietly look at the beautiful stars. In the first half of the poem Whitman uses dry words to reflect the mood of the classroom. However, at the end of the poem Whitman uses more striking words to reflect the thrilling turn of events. The narrator is struck by the beauty of the stars and night sky.
Humanity as a whole has always been perturbed by the unknown. There is nothing more unsettling than finding oneself drowning in ambiguity and posing questions none have answers to. Of course, when one is experiencing this excruciating kind of fear, they turn to the people they trust most for answers. These are the ones that have always risen up and shown leadership among the many, or the governing body of their society. However, there are many cases in which these authority figures have been the inception of such a notion.
The book that I chose to read was The Midnight Library written by Matt Haig (2020). This book portrays how strongly depression can negatively affect an individual throughout their life and how multiple life events can lead people to believing the only option is suicide. I believe that people who are depressed will often suffer in silence and decide to not speak up and get the help that they need. Matt Haig does an excellent job of bringing to light to a topic that is often overlooked. He accomplishes this by writing about a fictional character named Nora Seed.
The most influential Chinese poets, Du Fu, grew up motherless. Although he didn’t have a complete family, but he used this as the motivation in his poem. He had provided creditable poems by his early teens that had been widely spread through the nation. However, during his later years, he was suffering from illness, and financial problems that he needed to face by himself. Arthur Cooper, interested in Chinese Culture and history, translated Night Thoughts Afloat.
The poem”Stars” by Sara Teasdale was a poem that drew me in. I immediately shared Teasdale 's perspective on the stars. The title, “Stars” made me think about how many stars are in the sky and reminded me of when I go camping with my dad and we go to the observatory to look at stars, therefore giving me a happy connotation. It made me wonder whether the poem would be about physical stars or if it was going to be about metaphorical stars.
His meaning was that you should never overwork yourself, otherwise you may lose your passion. In lines five to eight, Whitman wrote, “ How soon ,unaccountable, I became tired and sick/,” But then ended his poem stating, “Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.” To understand what this means, we need to look at lines three and four, which describe a learning experience. Hinting to the idea that the speaker in the story was an astronomy student.
