Reference: About my Father’s Plot to Get Home Thesis and Context: When an individual must deal with the prospect of an uncertain future, they create an illusion of certainty by denying the existence of[…]
Tag: personal response
In the Midst of the Unknown – Personal Response
Fear of the unknown is an unwelcome encounter. It is something that leaves an individual with the need to be able to grasp on to any tangible sense of solace, in an attempt to feel[…]
Wildflowers
Kateryna Simeonoff Responding to: The Road Past Altamont Creative Money. Rent. Competition. Of course I knew of all these concepts before, and I had a plan… What was the plan? Oh, right, build a[…]
Loss of Passion-Night Personal Response
“Changing direction in life is not tragic. Losing passion in life is.” Max Lucado After finishing the novel, “Night” by Elie Wiesel, I found myself overflowed with emotion. Every single Jewish person in the novel[…]
A Silent Night – Personal Response
Reading through Night, I found myself on board a roller-coaster of emotions. With my own experience of learning about the events of the Jewish Holocaust, truth be told, I had never really found myself quite[…]
An Everlasting Night- Night Personal Response
“At six o’ clock that afternoon, the first American tank stood at the gates of Buchenwald” (Pg: 115). Alas, the Jews were set free yet Eliezer was still engulfed in the tortuous pain of the[…]
Analysis of Moishe the Beadle – Night Response
“They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname.” (Pg.3) A man as awkward as a clown who lives an impecunious existence is not typically a character[…]
Mental Imprisonment – Night Personal Response
“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton While I read Night, I kept waiting and waiting for the Jews[…]
Corpse – Personal response to Night
I don’t know who I am. When I was younger I was all-knowing in the aspects of myself. Any and every question was always met with a distinct, to the point answer. I always knew.[…]
Let us make up, Master of the Universe – Response to Night
Eliezer Wiesel lost his faith. I read as he struggled to retain it amidst the suffering of[…]