World hunger, nuclear weapons, and rising sea levels, these are all world problems that serve as evil today. As ISIS and North Korea try to cover the globe in their darkness, national powers attempt to cleanse the world of their evil presence. Good vs Evil is everywhere today, but in some places there seems to be only evil and hardly any good. The world can be a scary place, however there is some good like the geniuses that make daily breakthroughs. These are the people that bring good to people and help to fight evil. In Night by Elie Wiesel and in PAX by Sarah Pennypacker the authors develop the theme of loss and taking dangerous risks to complete their goal and find happiness. In Night by Elie Wiesel the topic of loss casts an evil
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Some of Elie’s family were unfortunately included in this group of people. Elie is one of many to enter concentration camps where he lost his mother, his infant sister, and his father. Eliezer’s father was the last of his family to die during the actions of the book. Elie experiences loss “when I [Elie] got down after roll call, I could see his lips trembling as he murmured something. Bending over him, I stayed gazing at him for over an hour, engraving into myself the picture of his blood-stained face, his shattered skull”(Wiesel 106). The theme of loss is present in this quote because it is explaining how he has just watched his father's skull get bashed in with a club. The detail in this memory from Ellie's mind is a way that it shows how this is a moment of loss he will never forget. However, in PAX by Sarah Pennypacker loss is not as dark, but instead the loss of pet that is released into the wild. In the story, a boy Peter, his father and grandfather all live in a house together, but his father joins the military with an incoming war that is getting closer to their town. With the war coming, Peter’s father releases Peter’s pet fox, Pax, into the wild. It is a sunny morning when Peter and his father are …show more content…
In Night Elie is taken to four different camps throughout eleven months of his life. During those eleven months, Elie and his father struggle to survive the cruelty of the Nazis. In each of the four camps he does what he has to do to survive, but everything that he does in all important to the long run of surviving the holocaust. Elie takes a risk in order to survive when he left his line to be with his father, but as he left his line the guards did not agree. “My father was sent to the left. I ran after him. An SS officer shouted at my back: ‘Come back here!’ I slipped in among the others. Several SS rushed to bring me back, creating such confusion that many of the people from the left were able to come back to the right-and among them my father and myself. However, there were some shots and some dead” (Wiesel 91). The theme of working hard and taking risks is included because Elie risks his life to save his father and in the process, some people are shot. During inspection, anyone sent to the left is killed, and if someone leaves their line, that person is shot. What Elie does is an example of good because he is desperately trying to save his father's life and succeeds but unfortunately gets other people shot. This scene shows how deeply determined Elie is to reach his goal of survival. Likewise, in PAX, Peter has
Some of Elie’s family were unfortunately included in this group of people. Elie is one of many to enter concentration camps where he lost his mother, his infant sister, and his father. Eliezer’s father was the last of his family to die during the actions of the book. Elie experiences loss “when I [Elie] got down after roll call, I could see his lips trembling as he murmured something. Bending over him, I stayed gazing at him for over an hour, engraving into myself the picture of his blood-stained face, his shattered skull”(Wiesel 106). The theme of loss is present in this quote because it is explaining how he has just watched his father's skull get bashed in with a club. The detail in this memory from Ellie's mind is a way that it shows how this is a moment of loss he will never forget. However, in PAX by Sarah Pennypacker loss is not as dark, but instead the loss of pet that is released into the wild. In the story, a boy Peter, his father and grandfather all live in a house together, but his father joins the military with an incoming war that is getting closer to their town. With the war coming, Peter’s father releases Peter’s pet fox, Pax, into the wild. It is a sunny morning when Peter and his father are …show more content…
In Night Elie is taken to four different camps throughout eleven months of his life. During those eleven months, Elie and his father struggle to survive the cruelty of the Nazis. In each of the four camps he does what he has to do to survive, but everything that he does in all important to the long run of surviving the holocaust. Elie takes a risk in order to survive when he left his line to be with his father, but as he left his line the guards did not agree. “My father was sent to the left. I ran after him. An SS officer shouted at my back: ‘Come back here!’ I slipped in among the others. Several SS rushed to bring me back, creating such confusion that many of the people from the left were able to come back to the right-and among them my father and myself. However, there were some shots and some dead” (Wiesel 91). The theme of working hard and taking risks is included because Elie risks his life to save his father and in the process, some people are shot. During inspection, anyone sent to the left is killed, and if someone leaves their line, that person is shot. What Elie does is an example of good because he is desperately trying to save his father's life and succeeds but unfortunately gets other people shot. This scene shows how deeply determined Elie is to reach his goal of survival. Likewise, in PAX, Peter has