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- 321: Marranos: A Lost People
- ... 1649, 109 Marranos were rounded up in Mexico's capital and killed.4 The Marranos were forced to live in hiding and in fear. One can compare this to the Jews in hiding during the Holocaust. They had to always be careful of what they said and what they did. The fact that the Marranos kept their religion hidden meant that their entire process of religious practice had to be transformed ...
- 322: Elie's Wiesel and Night
- ... grave, over there. Haven't you realize it yet? You dumb bastards, don't you understand anything? You're going to be burned. Frizzed away. Turned into ashes. Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. It is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel writes of their battle for survival, and with his battle with God for a way to understand the ...
- 323: The Great Gatsby: Symbolism of Character's Names
- ... leg of a compass, a thin red circle in the water. It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that we saw Wilsons body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete(170). In conclusion it is evident that a name is more than a simple calling. Fitzgerald ties in the symbolism of the names to the characters individual nature. Daisys name symbolizes ...
- 324: Judgement
- ... their outer shell. One more maddening incident in the book that made me just furious when I read it was when people started calling Atticus Finch a nigger-lover. When I think of the Nazi Holocaust, and slavery in the U.S. in the 1800's, I just get an anger built up inside of me. I don't see how people can hate a group of people because of their ...
- 325: Judith Guest's "Ordinary People": Summary
- ... one acts contrary to a role he has assumed while interacting with a significant person in his life," This guilt engenders in Conrad feelings of low self esteem. Survivors of horrible tragedies, such as the Holocaust, frequently express similar feelings of worthlessness. In his book, "Against All Odds", William Helmreich relates how one survivor articulates a feeling of abandonment. "Did I abandon them, or did they abandon me?" Conrad expresses a ...
- 326: Prejudice and The Pain and Suffering It Has Caused
- Prejudice and The Pain and Suffering It Has Caused Prejudice has caused the pain and suffering of others for many centuries. Some examples of this include the Holocaust and slavery in the United States. In to Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee racism was the cause of much agony to the blacks of a segregated South. Along with blacks, other groups of people ...
- 327: Morrison's Beloved: The Psychological Suffrage of Former Slaves
- ... and reveals the pain and suffrage of being a slave before and after emancipation through deeply symbolic delineations of continued emotional and psychological suffrage. Stanley Crouch stated " For Beloved, above all else, is a blackface holocaust novel" (38-43). He believed that by including sadistic guards, murder, separation of family members, a big war, failed and successful escapes, and losses of loved ones to the violence of the mad order, Morrison ...
- 328: Anne Frank Remembered: Review
- ... own story as an eye witness, with pictures and copies of documents to prove that the information is true. The book is very useful in understanding the issue of the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust in the second world war.
- 329: The Great Gatsby: Time As A Key Dimension to One's Life's Theme
- ... and his dream was just out of reach. As a result of living in the past, Gatsby limited his future and was doomed by a single kiss which was his only tragic flaw, "...and the holocaust was complete". Time is a key dimension in one's life theme and it played a key role in Jay Gatsby's life. For Gatsby was living in the past and when he came to ...
- 330: Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now
- ... movie "The Horror! The Horror!" has much more of a definite meaning than in the novel, although it is not something that we can easily categorize. It's a search-a search through the bloody holocaust that is our nightmare of Vietnam, a search through all the myths and motifs of Western literature and movies, a search along a glistening river surrounded by shadows, a search toward death and dissolution.(Wilmington ...
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