1) As Night begins, Eliezer is so moved by faith that he weeps when he prays. He is also searching for a deeper understanding of the mystical teachings of the Kabbalah. How does Eliezer's relationship with his faith and with God change as the book progresses? At the beginning of the book, Eliezer is very strong in his faith, as shown by his weeping and his yearning for a teacher to teach him the Kabbalah.
For example, It is pretty obvious that in this world people don’t express their feelings as much. “Later, going to sleep, he would feel the fiery smile still gripped by his face muscles, in the dark. It never went away, that smile, it never ever went away, as long as he remembered.” (15). Emotions are a huge can of worms that forces everyone to think and go into areas in their mind that they would be uncomfortable trying to work through and solve.
The decisions people make can affect them in a positive way or a negative way. I believe that Elieʻs choices have both sides. In this book NIGHT by Elie Weisel it was hard to survive as a Jew in these times as the story explains. As a young teen like Elie, he had a lot of peer pressure with Jews and the SS. Elie had it rough with being away from home and separated from his mother and sister.
1. Elie Wiesel was a Holocaust survivor, and an author who supports human rights and peace. Wiesel wrote a novel called Night, which is based off his personal experience in the Holocaust. He was born in 1928, in Romania, and died at the age of eighty-seven. When the Holocaust happened, Wiesel was twelve, and lived with his parents and two sisters.
If God is the creator of everything, did he also create evil? The answer to that questions is debatable and complex. The author of the book Night, Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor, has explored the possible answer to this question throughout his experiences during and after the holocaust. While conducting his interview with professor Georg Klein, Wiesel explains, that God did not create evil but it was humans who did. He continues by stating that only humans can do the nonhuman and unbearable things to one another.
“Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one’s journey is easy. It’s how they handle it that makes people unique.” This is a quote by Kevin Conroy. When applied to the novels Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom and Night by Elie Wiesel, it is easy to see the truth in Conroy’s words.
In the story Night by Eliezer Wiesel, the Jews had to endure a huge amount of suffering and pain. The first discussion question I have selected is; Can traumatic experiences transform someone's identity? The instances that the Jews have to go through changed their identity and how they viewed the world. An occasion where this occurs is when Elie's dad gets beaten up by Idek and Elie says “I had watched it all happening without moving. I kept silent.
Living in the train car was difficult because of the circumstances of conditions with not much water and food, shared upon dozens of people. Separation from her family and the conditions of travel caused her to spread psychological madness. Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D. wrote, “Rather, the adult drive toward omnipotent control of others, in any arena whatever, is rooted in fears of separation, abandonment loss or abuse--the residual effects of early attachment gone wrong.” (The Liberal Mind, 2005) This explains how separation could cause mishaps in behavior.
Elie Wiesel: Questions of Connections Racing along the hard gravel path through the cold frigid night, nothing but yesterday's bread in your stomach, as hundreds of men trample you from behind. How will you keep going?
Facing Adversity Kevin Conroy once said, “Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one’s journey is easy. It’s how they handle it that makes people unique.” In both novels, Tuesday’s with Morrie and Night, the main characters were faces with some of life's biggest adversities. In Tuesday’s with Morrie, Morrie gets diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and slowly fades away each day.
The night is a frightening tale of a Jewish teenager who is deported to the Nazi extermination camps that becomes a witness to the death of his family and his God. In the face of absolute horror, the devout protagonist asks himself: How can He allow these atrocities to take place in the God in whom I have believed so far with such fervor? Question that we ask ourselves every day when we see all the war conflicts and social injustices that are taking place all around the world. Elie Wiesel, author of this magnificent novel, begins by explaining that when he was 15 years old, news of the horrors the Nazis were spreading throughout Europe had not reached his village, Sighet, “The little town in Transylvania.” The life of
Herrigel associated the idea of detachment with all stimuli and emotion, affecting the archer’s performance. This is directly from Zen Buddhist philosophy, where all stimuli stemming from attachment such as sadness or delight hinders the ability to achieve enlightenment. What Master Awa wants Herrigel to understand is that all outside influences and attachments must be purged in order to succeed in the “art” of archery. In order to reinforce the lesson, the master disciplines his student whenever a moment of emotion appears, positive or negative. What the master archer holds internally when using the bow and arrow is a complete emotional neutrality, a state of indifference towards the outcome.
The Veldt a dystopian story by Ray Bradbury is about a nursery, the parents of Lydia, and George Hadley bought for them to enjoy and so they could go on adventures, and embrace the significance of traveling in a time machine. But does the nursery begin to be too much for the kid's? Will the parents soon realize what they’ve done? Lydia and George really love the nursery, but near the end of the story they start to love the nursery too much that the nursery too them becomes more than just a nursery. The craft moves that I will be using will answer lots of questions the reader may have, and will help the reader understand what’s going on in the text.
Jane Eyre Discussion Questions Mrs. Amato Honors English 11 Gabby Sargenti CHAPTERS 1-4 1. Review the details Brontë provides about the weather in the opening chapter of the novel. How does this establish the mood of the story when it begins? “Cold winter” “Leafless” “Cloud” “Chilly” “Protruding rain”
Emotions are what propel you forward to reach your goal, but what also stop you from breaking your limits. They are what weigh into our decisions and help lead us to the choices we forever live with. Not only can they determine what we do, but also when and how we do it. At times they are stronger than others, pulling us forward or throwing us back as if we have absolutely no control. Just like in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the entire lives of two teenagers led by the emotions that they couldn’t ignore.
