First They Killed My Father

lost both of my feet in a fire or to be more specific,my mom lost them.I don't know exactly what happened,i was too young to feel that stamp of excrutiating pain.We are never ever too young to feel pain.My soul wandered that day away from my body,into the wilderness because i didn't feel it when my mama died or to be more specific, when she killed herself.I am grateful for you,mama.I was all grown up,she taught me to walk on my limbs,seems impossible,well not to me.The first time my mom told me…

Euripides's Medea is a tragedy of a woman who feels that her husband has betrayed her with another woman. Upon this betrayal, Medea swears to exact revenge upon Jason and his new wife Gluace, the daughter of Creon, King of Corinth. We are first introduced to an agonizing Medea, racked by sorrow over husband's lack of faith. Medea's nurse is relaying Medea's reaction to Jason taking a new bed: She just lies there. She won't eat—her body…

at Delphi. At this point she receives a helper, the shepherd, who helps her with her first test. But before starting her first test she crosses a mental threshold. Iocaste has to give up her son in order to save her husband, which is a big step for anyone to do. By doing this Iocaste shows her strength and willingness to do what she thinks is right, which is the “pain(7)” Iocaste mentions to Oedipus. Iocaste first test is giving baby Oedipus up, her second test is marrying Oedipus. Iocaste’s…

understand that, consequentially to their mistakes, the two kings, Oedipus in Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus the King and Kreon in Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone, remain alone without a family and cannot do anything else besides accepting their tragic ends. The first big difference between the two leaders is the way in which they start to rule Thebes. Oedipus is traveling and finds himself in front of the Sphinx, a creature part human, part lion. The Sphinx eats every traveler who cannot solve her…

be shaken. The characters that represent this theme in the story are Elie Wiesel, the author of this nonfiction autobiography, Elie’s father, Moishe the Beadle, Idek and Dr. Josef Mengele. All of these people are either targeted by racism, or are “racist”. Elie Wiesel is the protagonist in this novel. His life was just perfect; he lived a simple life. His father, named Shlomo, is respected by the entire Jewish community of Sighet. Elie has two older sisters, Hilda and Bea, and a younger sister,…

When my father was 20 years old his life was changed forever. He was drafted into the Army during the height of the Vietnam War. During his two years in the military, especially the year he spent in combat, he experienced things he could not have previously imagined. This all led to making my father grateful for his life and his freedom and not taking either of them for granted. After he was drafted my father was sent to Kentucky for basic training. Then he went to Alabama for…

short play focuses on an Old Man, who returns to his ancestral home in the hope of eradicating the sins that he sees surrounding him, though his logic is twisted (Viana, Maria Rita Drumond). It is this deranged logic that prompts him to murder his father and son in retribution for their sins. The Old Man’s mother is described by him as an apparition stuck in limbo, forced to relive the night of her son’s conception because of her remorse. The concept of evil in conjunction with religion is what…

Jonas changes with the new challenges he faces. In The Giver, Jonas changed over the course of the novel by showing fear, expressing interest over new ideas, and of ultimate understanding of the society he lives in. To begin with, Jonas shows his first emotion fear at becoming the new Receiver of Memory. In chapter 9 it states that Jonas “remembered uneasily what the Chief Elder had said about the pain that would come with his training. She had called it indescribable.¨ (Lowry, pg 70). Jonas…

Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Prince Hamlet lost his father and has been depressed ever since. His uncle Claudius took over the throne and married Hamlet’s mother Gertrude. One day a ghost, Hamlet’s dead father, told him how Claudius killed him by putting poison into his ear. Hamlet seeks revenge for his dead father and wants to kill Claudius for his crime. Hamlet deals with many adversities with his family, friends, and himself. His father was killed by Claudius who married Gertrude and took…

the novel Night,survived in the concentration camps until the end because he had his father by his side. Family is a person's backbone especially their parents. Everyone mostly depends on their parents more than the rest of their family because their parents raise them. Elie wanted to live so his father wouldn't be alone, he thought about how lonely his father would be without him. The text says, “He was running at my side,out of breath, at the end of his strength… I had no right to let myself…