Thesis: What other groups of people were victims of persecution and murdered by the Nazis and why? January 30, 1933: President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany. This date in History was the start to one of the most tragic events the human civilization has ever experienced. This was the start of the Holocaust.…
Personal Response-I Survived The Nazi Invasion, 1944 I enjoyed the story because I like reading about the Holocaust. Learning more about all that happened is cool. Horrible things took place and I think it’s cool how the Nazis were killed after it was all done. Plot-…
How would you feel if you woke up in a hot creaky metal elevator in the darkness all by yourself, or you arrive in a strange place full of strange boys and aligned with a maze? That is exactly what happened to Thomas in The Maze Runner. After a long ride in a freaky and dark elevator all by himself to a place called the Glade, Thomas found himself surrounded by people he does not know in a place he has never been to. When he got there he realized that he doesn’t know anything about himself or his family except that his first name is Thomas. One of the kids named Chuck helps Thomas through the first day and night.…
After reading your book “Jack’s run” I am writing you this letter to you because I have some questions and suggestions, one of many questions I have is how was it possible for all of the people who rescued Jack and Joane be able to go into Alonzo Aznar’s room at the hospital. Another question I have is why the kids werent under more supervision with both there parents gone and with Alonzos trial coming up. The reason why I am writing this to you is because so far I have really enjoyed these series of books so far and would like to know the perspective of maybe Joane or Alonzo Aznar/Zita.…
The book starts out in New Jersey where we meet our character Jack Blank who lives in an orphanage called St. Barnabas. The orphanage for the hopeless, forgotten, and lost, and on the sign it said crushing the spirit of childhood since 1898. Jack is made to do chores while everyone is on a field trip. He was glad to miss this field trip because the other children were going on a "scared straight" trip to a maximum security prison to show them where they would go if they didn't "fly straight". Jack was sure that if he didn't land himself in prison Rex and his buddies would put him in it.…
The book I chose to read is One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. It was written by Ken Kessey in 1962. The book was published by Signet and has 325 pages. The book is told from the view of Chief Bromden, who is a half Indian man who pretends to be deaf and dumb. Chief and his friends usually follow a normal schedule, which includes eating, bathing, and recreational times.…
This novel, “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” starts with the narrator, Chief Bromden, a schizophrenic patient, waking up in a psychiatric ward of a hospital, where he’s been living for the past ten years. Chief Brodmen describes the hospital as an enormous machine, called the “Combine,” which controls the patients and imposes obedience on them. He pretends to be deaf and dumb allowing him to hear all the secrets on the ward and remain mostly unnoticed in the ward. Nurse Ratched, also known as the “Big Nurse,” by Chief, enters the room and orders the aides to shave Chief Bromden. Nurse Ratched is an insensitive and deceptive person who desires a specific routine that’s mechanized to perfection.…
“Through the tunnel” The protagonist initiated was he wanted to face his fear by holding his breath under water as long as he can, while going through the tunnel. Every days, he would go to the ocean with his mother and they would go to the ocean. Every day he would do his daily routine like going swimming and sunbathing. One day, he was looking down the bay and he wanted to go down there. So he asked his mother if he can go down to the bay…
Trapped In this Maze? Ever been suppressed by a certain characteristic or by your heritage, confined and force to be someone who you don't wanna be? In Maze Runner by James Dashner and Anthem by Ayn Rand we see how these dystopian novels are so popular among people and how they are related. Anthem is popular because of how we can relate to this dystopian book is, the fact that it's so popular was because of how children and adults feel towards the meaning of the book. Like Maze Runner they’re trapped into a maze and forced through these trials to prove their worth as if their just cog to work a huge a machine, it relates to society and the school because of how we grow up and be something that we don't wanna be, we strive to be someone to be proud just like anthem and the maze runner how they push their the problems and the restricts in their dystopian world.…
Name Age Occupation Character Traits: personality, relationships to others, treatment of others, fears, hopes, dreams, accomplishments etc. Thomas 16 Greenie/Runner/Leader He is the protagonist of the story. He is a 16-year-old courageous boy whom he finds himself trapped in the Glade, fighting to find the escape. He has no memory of anything, this makes him a very curious character.…
Every hero goes through a journey cycle, Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, Katniss Everdeen, et cetera et cetera. Each of these heroes’ journey cycle has an effect on the theme of their respective stories as well as helping to develop their plots. James Dashner’s novel, The Maze Runner, helps express this statement as Dashner utilizes the hero’s journey in order to introduce and develop the theme of his novel, while employing the hero’s journey in a way that helps form his plot in an intriguing way. James Dashner makes use of the hero’s journey cycle in his novel, “The Maze Runner”, to form key plot components including the exposition, the climax, and the resolution. In “The Maze Runner”, Dashner uses the departure stage of a hero’s journey cycle to create the exposition for his novel, starting by allowing readers to obtain the setting, the protagonist, and the internal conflict of the protagonist in his novel through the “beginning of the adventure”, a vital step in the departure stage of a hero’s journey cycle (Dashner Pgs. 1-3).…
The Maze Runner When you feel that you don’t have the freedom that you dream about, or even the freedom that you deserve, because of religious beliefs, society mentality or sexual abuse; you will work hard to get back your freedom even if the whole world stands in front of your face. In this way you will feel that you are a runner in a maze, where you run and run and run and every place you reach the world builds a wall in your face. But since you want your freedom so bad you will continue looking for a way in which you can break these walls and escape this maze to be free. In the novel The Color of Water by James McBride, Ruth described herself as a “Runner type person” (McBride 42). Such a characteristic reveals many things about Ruth’s…
Throughout the Maze Runner the characters are presented with many problems they must address in order to survive. These problems change their personalities and views on life making them more aware and more serious. For example, in the beginning of the book we view Thomas as not confident and overly curious, but as the book continues we see him beginning to become more confident and understanding of his surroundings. Another character we see change is Chuck who used to be scared of death and had very little courage but in the end he tragically dies so Thomas can live. To me…
“Lame…” is what I thought to myself once I finished watching the movie “The Maze Runner.” In my opinion, I thought that The Maze Runner book was way better than the movie. When I read the book, I believe I was a sophomore in Ms. Brown’s class and I shockingly liked the book. The reason why I say shockingly is because I never read books and when I do, I rarely like them. After we read the book we watched the movie, and I thought that it was a real disappointment.…
In this paper, the texts “1984” by George Orwell and “The Maze Runner” by James Dashner will be compared and analysed, in specific the language and stylistic features used to portray the different perspectives on the ideas of oppression and helplessness. The point of view of “Big Brother” and the theme of higher power are vastly used in both of these texts, along with both the conforming and rebelling point of views, all of which will be examined in this paper. In both novels, “1984” and “The Maze Runner”, a “Big Brother” point of view is portrayed through language and stylistic features in the texts, and these techniques show how this unknown and seemingly mysterious higher power can manipulate and control the characters. The key similarity…