Keep Hope Alive

Night The book Night by Elie Wiesel has many great themes, however the theme I analyzed is that no matter the pain and suffering you go through you will still always love and care for your family and others, help others in need. I picked this theme out for many reasons. Throughout the story Elie starts losing faith in god, causing him to learn to trust himself. When you trust yourself then you are able to help others. Any person with correct morals will tell you the same thing. That is the…

situations can help in tough times, even where there is no hope. Keeping your outlook on the world, even when it’s turned on you, is a true spirit. “Just because something in life appears to be hard, that does not mean it’s impossible.” In Anne Frank's diary, she wrote like nothing was wrong, even when things were. Or in Dear Miss. Breed, the Louise Ogawa is tortured at the camps, but when she writes about it, it doesn’t sound terrible, She keeps her rosy look on the world. Good vibes, really…

nagging I did. I had to wait until July for the show, but I was already planning in June. I knew I was going to take my friend Hope and my mom told my dad that it was his turn for concert duty. Unfortunately, my father got stuck chaperoning for a band he couldn’t stand which was going to make to the whole night better. Flash forward to the night of the show, which Hope…

Ventricular Assist Devices: A Rapidly Evolving Alternative to Transplant.") This is where the LVAD comes in , it provides a bridge so to say, to the patient waiting for the heart.( Point 1 in "What is a left ventricular assist device (LVAD)?") It keeps them stable until they can receive their donor heart. On August 15th of 2000 in Pittsburgh there was a case where a man with heart disease had a heart attack and was placed on a donor list to receive a new heart. While waiting for his heart an…

person that gave up on their life and family.They feel they need to make a difference or send a message. There are survivors out there in the world and they would say never give up because in the end it will all be worth it. They find the strength and hope to strive, they find that motivation to get them to the finish line. There are millions of people across the globe that get sick or get bad news about themselves, this happens in everyday life to regular people. Cancer is a type of disease and…

proclaimed her love for both Tom and Jay, Jay still wanted to protect her, and was still hoping for Daisy to call him. He is so blinded by this love that he will do anything to be with her. The reader is drawn into this emotional attachment to Daisy and hopes that the relationship will work out. But, we see through Nick's point of view that Gatsby should move on from her, when he says, "They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." With Nick's point of view, the reader…

of their ethnicity. They had to under tough conditions as well as having bad food which game them the “Manzanar Runs” (diarrhea). Two characteristics that allowed Japanese Americans to survive and recover the internment camps was responsibility and hope. One major reason for the Japanese were surviving…

During World War II, nearly 2,700,000 European Jews were taken out of their homes and put into concentration camps where they were killed. This time was known as the Holocaust. During this hard time the only things that helped the spirit to triumph were love, laughter, and nature. Love was one of the reasons that helped the spirit to triumph. In the book “Yellow Star” Syvia and her family were imprisoned in a ghetto in the city of Lodz. Syvia was one out of the twelve children who survived…

As most proficient authors are aware, the process of developing themes within a work of literature is one of the most important duties of a writer. Authors have numerous methods available to them for this task, including devices such as symbolism. Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones, uses symbolism frequently throughout her novel - a tale of a teenage girl who watches from her personal Heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her…

Vanessa Carcamo Ms. Fauver AP English 22 September 2017 The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, tells a gripping tale of a man and a boy surviving a post-apocalyptic journey. The man and the boy struggle to maintain their humanity on the road with the situations that they endure. Since the boy maintains his morality, despite the many dead bodies, vanished morals of mankind, he is able to outweigh the evil. McCarthy uses various techniques to show that even in the darkest times, goodness can prevail.…