Literature Analysis #1

Literary Analysis : Night

By: Elie Wiesel

      Setting/ Plot Overview: This amazing and life changing story is narrated by the author himself Elie Wiesel. His stories tell about the hardships of Jewish people during the time of Nazi Germany and Hitler's rule. Elie provides a comparison of how happy his life was and how successful his family came to be before the German's occupied his nation of Hungary and after when all the Hungarian Jews were sent to Ghetto's and then after labor and concentration camps. He depicts the increasingly repressive measures of how his life quickly becomes an empty hole of pain and suffering in which he endeavors the pure existence of hell on Earth.The only individual person keeping him alive during this whole ordeal is is his own father who eventually becomes very ill and then gets sent to the crematorium where Elie does not know whether he was deceased or burned alive.

     Major Characters: Elie Wiesel is a protagonist in this story. He is much more than the traditional type of protagonist because of his direct experience with the Holocaust itself.In the story Elie is a young boy and ambitious when it came to acknowledging his own faith and religion. But as Elie goes through the hardships of the holocaust he begins to lose his ability to believe in his faith. In the end of his experience he comes to hate This "God" of his with all the fury of his soul. Elie even quoted "Blessed be god's name? Why, but why would I bless him? Every Fiber in me rebelled. Because he caused thousands of children to burn in his mass graves? Because he kept six crematoria working day and night including Sabbath and Holy days? Because in his great might he had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of Death? How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, and our brothers end up in furnaces? Praised be thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on thine altar?".

     Shlomo was Elie's father in the story and in real life. Shlomo is the only constant presence in the story, and as the story develops so does the amplitude of horror that he experiences.  Although we do not get to experience Shlomo's thoughts and feelings it is obvious that he is a loving father towards his son. And like his son, Elie is the only one that keeps his father alive. The development of Shlomo is that of a a gradual decline in morality due to the hunger, the pain, and the constant fear of dying. He is the upmost important character in the plot because he reminds Elie of the commitment to his family, of his duty, and of the goodness that is left in his heart.

     Symbols: Moshe the Beadle is a major symbol in this story. Looking at Moshe, he is an old, innocent peasant who minds his own business and is very knowledgeable in his religion.As soon as he tastes a glimpse of how truly evil Nazi Germany really is, he begins to lose all faith in humanity, hope, and even himself. Moshe represents the evil that stemmed off the hatred and genocide that everyone experienced during that time period. Fire is also a major symbol that provides a premonition to the horrors that await the Jewish people at the concentration camps. Fire is the agent in the crematoria where people are burned alive and where innocent children and babies are murdered without mercy. Fire is also religiously affiliated with Gehenna - the Jewish Version of Hell- where the wicked are punished by fire.

     Themes: I believe that one of the central themes of Night was that of Silence and The Belief of a False God. In one of Night's most Famous passages, Eliezer states, " Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence that deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live". It is the Idea of God's silence that he finds most troubling, as this description of an event at Buna reveals: as the Gestapo hangs a young boy, a man asks, " Where is God?" and yet the only response is total silence throughout the camp. Elie and his campanions are left to wonder how an all-knowing, all powerful God can allow such a horror and cruelty to occur, especially to such devout worshipers. The existence of this horror, and the lack of a divine response, forever shakes Eliezer's faith in God.   

VOCAB #4

 accede - to give consent, approval, or adherence
 brandish- to shake or wave, as a weapon
 comprise- to include or contain
 deft- dexterous; nimble; skillful
 destitute-without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing, and shelter
 explicit- fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated
 extirpate - to remove or destroy totally
 inopportune- not opportune; inappropriate; inconvenient
 ironic-using words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
 musty- having an odor or flavor suggestive of mold
 officious-objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services
 ominous-portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening
 pinnacle-the highest or culminating point, as of success
 premeditated-done deliberately; planned in advance
 rampant-violent in action or spirit; raging
 solace-comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble
 stately-majestic; imposing in magnificence, elegance
 supple-bending readily without breaking or becoming deformed
 suppress-to do away with by or as by authority; abolish
 venal-able to be purchased, as by a bribe

1) In order for me to go to the party my parents had to give me an accede.
2) The young knight brandished his weapon in order to prepare for battle.
3) The punishment will compromise of 100 hours of community service and a 500 dollar fine.
4) The young massage therapist relaxed all of her patients with her small deft hands.
5) The Jewish people in Concentration Camps in World War 2 were living in destitute.
6) The Rated R movie warned against explicit drug use in the movie.
7) The inmate had to be extirpated from the court because of his rowdy behavior.
8) It was an inopportune time to ask my girlfriend to the Prom because of her bad mood.
9) It was ironic that the youth drug counsel was busted for dealing drugs to teenagers.
10) The Homeless shelter smelled of musty beards and dirty clothes.
11) My mother officiously took me to her workplace to help her out after I got suspended from school.
12) After every horror movie when I get home I always have an ominous feeling something is going to happen.
13) Steve Jobs sadly died during the pinnacle of his career.
14) The murder that the couple committed was discovered to be premeditated.
15) The Rampant Rhino Charged at the tour bus as well over 30 miles an hour.
16) The whole Turner family was in solace when there eldest dog died.
17) The college student saw a stately unicorn after he had consumed shrooms.
18) Welding is the the art of make metal supple without making it break or be deformed.
19) The goal of the American Revolution was to take away the rule of the king that was causing the colonist to be suppressed.
20) The Venal Judge unjustly accused the boy of stealing because the Rich man bribed him.

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VOCABULARY #3

accomplice: a person who knowingly helps another in a crime or wrongdoing, often as a subordinate
 annihilate: to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence; destroy utterly: The heavy bombing almost annihilated the city.
 arbitrary: subject to individual will or judgment without restriction
 brazen: shameless or impudent
 catalyst: a person or thing that precipitates an event or change
 exodus: a going out; a departure or emigration
 facilitate: to make easier or less difficult; help forward Careful planning facilitatesany kind of work.
 incorrigible:  bad beyond correction or reform
 latent: present but not visible, apparent, or actualized
 militant: vigorously active and aggressive, especially in support of a cause: militant reformers.
 morose: gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
 opaque: not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light
 paramount: chief in importance or impact; supreme
 prattle: to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way
 rebut: to refute by evidence or argument.
 reprimand: a severe reproof or rebuke
 servitude: slavery or bondage of any kind
 slapdash: in a hasty, haphazard manner
 stagnant: not flowing or running, as water
 succumb: to give way to superior force; yield

1) The Accomplice confessed to the crime he had committed along with his brother and other relatives.
2) The heavy bombing almost annihilated the entire city.
3) The professional football player made an arbitrary decision to retire at a young age.
4) Doctor Preston is very brazen when is comes to handing out homework.
5) There are many catalysts that can for different chemicals that help out us out without hurting our environment.
6) There was an exodus to the west when the dust bowl wiped out all the vegetation.
7) In order to facilitate the situation the two little boys made an agreement to stop fighting.
8) The car was so incorrigible after the crash that they just simply sent it to the junkyard.
9) Bravery is something that is latent.
10) The Intelligent young boy attacked the SAT with militant speed.
11) Edgar Allan Poe was known for his morose novels.
12) The smoke made the night sky so opaque that the moon was not even visible.
13) Winston Churchill was paramount in the allied victory against Germany in WW2.
14) Blondes tend to prattle about things people don't really care about.
15)The lawyer provided an important rebut in the murder case.
16) The merchandise was completely broken so the customer reprimanded  for a refund.
17) I believe people who have voluntary servitude to a person are very loyal.
18) She was in such a hurry that she ignored my question and left in a slapdash.
19) The emotion he portrayed during the trial was stagnant without any remorse.
20) One must not succumb to peer pressure to go and do drugs.

ESSAY IDEA

Essay Topic:  Why do you people know they're obese and choose to do nothing about it?

* I have literally dozens of ideas rolling around my mind about essay topics but this is the one the caught my most attention. It is more of a fundamental and variable question that I believe many people will have different answers to. What I am hoping to get out of this essay topic ( If it were something we were to write about) is to get people's opinions out there for the rest of us to discuss and maybe get into a more in depth look about how obesity is a social stigma.

VOCABULARY #2

Obesity: the condition of being very fat or overweight
Accumulate: to gather or collect
Mass: a body of coherent matter
Disease: a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors
Diet: a particular selection of food
Prevalence: the condition of being prevalent; or widespread
Stigma: a mark of disgrace or infamy
Prevent(able): to keep from occurring
Adolescent: growing into manhood or womanhood; youthful
Cardiovascular: of, pertaining to, or affecting the heart and blood vessels
Excessive: going beyond the usual, necessary
Mechanism: an assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine
Sedentary: characterized by or requiring a sitting posture
Predispose: to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible
Syndrome: a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder; disease

* The wrestler was so obese that when he stepped on the mat he ripped a hole through it with his bare foot.
* Many people hope to accumulate money in there banks so that one day they may go traveling around the world
* The Solar system is constructed of a mass of stars orbiting around a galaxy.
* The disease in the man's body originated from the snake bite that occurred about 72 hours ago.
* Many extreme athletes have a specific diet in order to function more properly during sport play.
* The prevalence of many poppy plants causes the extinction of certain other herbs and wild flowers.
* Having a bad haircut during picture day has a huge impact on social stigma.
* Bob Marley's tumor was 90% preventable, but he decided not to seek medical attention to save his life.
* Many young and restless teenagers believe that they are men already and no longer adolescent.
* Body builders go above and beyond to have excessive Muscle mass.
* The new and economic Volkswagen was a brilliant mechanism of countless hours of engineering and science.
* "The Thinker" statue was created in order to symbolize a man in his thoughts in a sedentary posture.
* His job was predispose his boss about important upcoming events in his busy schedule.
* The doctor gathered data from the patient and put together the puzzle pieces to figure out a certain disorder the patient had been living with.

PROS & CONS: OBESITY

Here are two links that refute the these:
* http://www.qsrmagazine.com/roy-bergold/obesity-really-our-fault
* http://www.genengnews.com/gen-articles/the-obesity-epidemic-it-s-your-fault-and-yours-and-yours/4393/

Here are two links that support the text's thesis:
*http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/19/overheard-whose-fault-is-obesity/
* http://upstreamdownstream.org/2011/11/obesity-its-all-your-fault/

          Obesity derives from many such components such as Poor dieting and lack of exercise.Some of the reasons why people are overweight are blamed to be on the harmful chemicals that fast food industries present in their food. But when you really break things down, Being overweight, obese, fat or however you wish to call it is that person's own fault. We are the one's who insist on consuming the harmful synthetic so-called "Food" that comes from Taco Bell Or Jack in Box. We are too ignorant and blind to see that Taco Tuesday is just a sale to get people hooked on their product and to keep their industries up and running.
          People may blame fast food industries for the main cause of obesity in our nation, but when you come down to the cold hard facts the only people that a person can blame are the people themselves. No one is forcing them or breathing down their necks to by food unfit for even dogs to eat. They maybe also argue that healthier food is much more expensive and hard to come by these days. What they don't know is that by investing that money into their diet is saving them money in the long run. Saving money such as not going to the doctors to get a prescription for insulin when they have diabetes or clogged arteries when they eat too many big macs.
          If you break down the facts of maintaining a wight that is desired, it is one of the most easiest thing in the world to do. If a person wishes to lose a pound a week then a person would have to reduce their calorie intake by 500 calories a day and do it for a week. That would make a person lose an average of 3,500 calories a week which is exactly one pound. Let us also keep in mind that 500 calories isn't much. It is about as much as a large Blender's smoothie or about 2 bananas. So why do people not make this small sacrifice in order to live a more healthier lifestyle? It is because we are all culpable of sloth and greed and we only care about eating what is good and not about what is eating right.
         In conclusion, I believe that mother nature's diet is the best one a person can possibly follow. This includes fruit, fish, lean meat, vegetable, nuts, and so many more healthy things other than fast food and synthetic chemicals that a person stores in their body. Nature isn't looking to make a profit. She does not want to get people hooked on products that are manufactured. all that nature wants is for people to eat what is right and healthy for them. That is what I believe is REAL food.