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    the story of Elie Wiesel and his experience as a jew during the holocaust as well as how Elie took care of his dad and tried to survive for the both of them. Schindler's list takes a different approach and shows the Holocaust in the point of view of Oskar Schindler; a member of the Nazi party. The goal of this paper is to compare and contrast the similarities and differences between the themes and characters of Night and Schindler's…

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    determination when he bribed the Nazi soldiers into letting the women go. He interjected with “What are you doing with these people? These are my people.” This was the only shipment of people to leave Auschwitz during the entire war. This shows what lengths Oskar Schindler would go to for the safety and well-being of his workers. The workers he cared for at Emalia were at Plaszow Concentration Camp, subjected to numerous acts of brutality and murder, Schindler personally intervened repeatedly…

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    Jewish Holocaust was not only a horrific event, it was one that will always be remembered. One brave man, Oskar Schindler, did as much as he could to save the Jewish people of Krakow from the misery of the Nazis. Oskar Schindler not only saved Jewish people from concentration camps and ghettos, but he also helped to nourish them and fought to keep them alive in his factory. Throughout the war, Oskar Schindler brought in many Jewish people to work for him. These people came to his factory…

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    battle between a multitude forces and in the midst of it many courageous men and women acted heroically, but there is one man in particular that went out of his way to do what was right and just, even when it put his own life in peril. The story of Oskar Schindler is a powerful one; he was…

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    Schindler's Scene Analysis

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    The Girl’s Scene with the Red Coat in Schindler 's List The scene featuring the girl with the red coat in Schindler 's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993) is of the most recognizable scenes in late twentieth century cinema. It is often understood to encapsulate key aspects of the Holocaust, its brutality, and its effects on the lives of the people caught up within it. At the time, the scene deals with the paradoxes of memory, memorial and what may appear to be a sense of personal inability when…

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    Rick Warren, a Christian pastor and author once said that, “We are products of our pasts, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.” In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the protagonist, Guy Montag lives in a futuristic dystopian society. As a fireman, his job is to burn illegal books and the homes of the owners with them, but later he questions the effect of censorship and everything that he ever knew. Guy Montag changes from an unemotional fireman to a fully emotional and engaged rebel…

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    Set in the 24th century, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury unravels with the story of a protagonist, Guy Montag. At first, Montag takes pleasure in his job as a fireman, burning illegally owned books and the homes of their owners. Montag soon begins to question the value of his profession and in turn his life. The Road, a novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy, is a post-apocalyptic tale of a journey of a father and his young son over a period of several months. They walk across a…

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    1 : Introduction 1.1 General Background Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) is a dystopian novel, set in a world where the ownership of books is illegal, and firemen burn books instead of putting fires out. The protagonist, Guy Montag, is a fireman. He decides to investigate the loyalty some in their society have for books by reading some he kept in secret. He is then discovered by his captain who reports him, and is chased by the government until he escapes in a river. In the end, he washes up…

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    Loran Rolfe 12.2 2 February 2018 Mrs Klopper English Reflective essay Final draft The Words That Form Us Book have the ability to change the world. They reflect the very nature of humans desire to learn more, feel more and discover more. As the world heads further and further away from appreciating the power of words and the beauty that is encapsulated by poetry and novels, books have become forgotten and undervalued. It's important to remember that there is beauty in the words, if we look…

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    Imagery In Fahrenheit 451

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    Guy Montag is very mysterious. The first words in the novel Farenhight 451 come from him and it reads as follows “It was a pleasure to burn”. At the beginning of the novel Montag seems like someone who enjoys his job very much, but as the novel progresses Montag seems to not love his job so much. Its not because of the burning part its because he is the only one that realizes what is happening to the dystopian society that he lives in. He realizes after burning all of these books he is burning…

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