The Day I Will Never Forget Essay

Alex Trotter Foster English IV 07 April 17 Losing Your Faith “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in the camp, which has turned my life into one long night” (Wiesel 3.68), Elie Wiesel states in his memoir Night. Elie Wiesel was a young boy during captivity dealing with intrinsic evil brought upon by German war generals. Throughout these harsh times, Elie Wiesel enlightens the reader on how one is likely to lose their morals and faith in times of struggle. “Night is the tale of…

would teach me a girl like me should have. Those very things were drilled into my very being as a young child, and they would later prove to make me into the strong woman that I had become today. The hot summer’s day, and the appeasing wind that blew very benevolent. This would grow to certainly be a summer I will never forget. The summer that will be etched into my memory for many more years to come. My grandmother’s home was a place that had undoubtedly left a lasting impression on me. To…

Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence… Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself. (page 34) “Never shall I… Never shall I… Never shall I…” Elie kept repeating. These scenes have always been repeating in his mind because this was the first time that he had actually…

school people don’t notice these things as much. Little that they know people experience these things. You see this happen more often with girls than with boys, I know this from experience. I have had times when I expressed myself in a wrong way and it almost got me in trouble. A lot of people notice these type of things, even people I don’t know. The way actions speak louder it can be more powerful than words is by the way you present yourself or express yourself. It’s like the saying that…

during the time I was in Haiti. It was one year before I even came to the U.S.A. That day, in the morning, I went to school and everything was alright. The school that I went to was open 7am to 2:45 pm, when school was over that day I planned to stay after school to study for one of the exam that I was going to take the next morning, but I didn’t stay, I went home. When I got home at 3:30 pm, I said hi to my parents. I was getting ready to go to my aunt’s house to go study for the test. I was…

When some days seem to drag on and on, but then you look back at the week that just passed and it seems like it flew by. Time will go on forever, but our time on Earth will not. 800 is just a number, but that number is special for one reason. 800 days ago was August 4, 2013, just over two years ago. While most people were still on vacation, out enjoying the summer before school started two weeks later, I was somewhere I didn’t want to be. I was stuck home alone, crying in my bedroom. 800 days…

was ever there to protect him and his people and why he would spectate the wretched things the Nazi’s would do. As we progress through the novel, Elie matured in a way nobody should ever have to face. 1.“I was twelve. I believed profoundly…” “Why did I pray? . . . Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” In those quotes Elie had proclaimed he believed in God “profoundly” yet when Moishe had questioned him why he believed in God, Elie replied with questions himself. This was the first sign of…

9/11: Never Forget “I heard a woman’s bloodcurdling scream coming from the other side of the door.” “The first woman who came through the door had half her arm hanging off as though someone had sliced through her skin with a machete. A man had huge pieces of glass embedded in his chest. The woman who was screaming had blood all over her face and was pitifully repeating that she couldn’t see.” “One of the most haunting sights of The World Trade Center disaster was that of bodies hurtling…

First Day in College Without a doubt, every change is a challenge, and sometimes it is difficult to keep up with changes, but after a time they become part of life. Famous Winston Churchill once said: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” I relate to this quote because there were a time in my life that I wanted to quite college, because I was failing in my grades, but with the help from my family and friends I found a way to make best of my…

Star Lu Mrs. Swarm Good Morning Bernardo Yorba Class of 2018! I can’t believe it has already been 2 years since we stepped foot onto the BYMS campus for the first time. It seems like only yesterday that we were seventh graders, trying to find our next class, fighting the locks on our P.E. lockers, and looking so clueless to the returning 8th graders. And now we are those 8th graders, the rulers of the school, who are now here, counting down the minutes before we are released to summer and…