One Night Only

a cold Friday night, the temperature was below freezing. I was working at McDonald’s, it was the only job I had been able to keep in the last couple of years. I was always recognized from the managers for being so friendly and kind to everyone including my co-workers, except on this specific night. I had been having mood swings all day and was not feeling good at all. I clocked in and got to work, for tonight's shift I was working in the drive-thru. Working drive-thru on Friday night was always…

situation, people begin to think more about their own safety than the safety of others. With the approach of first-person narratives in both Night by Elie Wiesel and The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, the reader can hear about and recount the events as they happened from the individual’s perspectives the way that those individuals experienced the events. In Night, where Elie recounts his experiences as a survivor of the Holocaust and a prisoner in multiple concentration camps, and The…

The air was crisp and cool. The sky was a deep shade of purple that signaled night was setting in the sky. There was no illumination of this land other than the shimmering moon and the warm, eerie glow from the apartment buildings scattered among the fields. In the fields themselves, insects buzzed and chirped, hidden deep within the underbrush. In the soil, prairie dogs scrambled fervently, navigating their tunnels in search of a nighttime meal. On the edge of the fields, a deserted path lay…

with pleasant nostalgia. Thesis statement: In the short story, “3 AM and the Stars Were Out”, the author, Ron Rash, introduces the reader to Carson, an aging, retired veterinarian who contemplates the life he lived and death he has seen. Using a late night cow birth and the lights that shine in the dark as a metaphor for the human experience, Rash explores the pain of being alive and rewards of living. II. Paragraph 1: Accepting/acknowledging…

I Will Never Forget ”Shall I never forget that night, the first night in camp. Which has turned my life into one long night” Grit is using perseverance, passion, and strength to face life’s difficult challenges. Elizer “Elie” Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet, Romania. Elie was a Noble Peace prize winner of writing more than fifty books, Elie is a holocaust survivor, and an Author. Elie Wiesel was deported when he was about fifteen years old, along with his family in Auschwitz,…

The world was silent during the Holocaust. The people that were involved in the Holocaust were Adolf Hitler, Nazis, and the victims Jews, Soviets, and many other groups of people. The Holocaust took place from 1933 to 1945 in Europe and northern Africa. It happened because Adolf Hitler wanted a "pure race" and he chose to blame and use the Jews as a scapegoat since they were not well liked at the time anyways. He also wanted to eradicate the Jews for many other reasons, such as land, bankruptcy…

NIGHT COMMENTARY In this passage from the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie had been snatched from his home and transported to a concentration camp, in a cattle car. Passage two talks about Elie’s first experience with the Nazis, and the process of how he was treated, and how he felt. This passage shows how a person can be dehumanized by being affected by war and tragedy, it talks about the use of imagery, symbolism, hyperbole, and other literary devices used by the author. The story is told in…

The memoir Night, written by Eliezer Wiesel, tells of the experiences that happened in the Nazi German concentration camps during the Holocaust. Elie is separated from his mother and three sisters early in the book. The book tells of the horrific experiences that he and his father must face together. There are several themes that can be identified in this book, but I will concentrate on the struggle with faith. Raised to be a faithful young man, Eliezer Wiesel’s faith is tested but never truly…

Night- Elie Wiesel Characters Eliezer- Night traces Eliezer’s psychological journey, as the Holocaust robs him of his faith in God and exposes him to the deepest inhumanity of which man is capable. Despite many test of his humanity, however, Eliezer maintains his devotion to his father. Shlomo- Even though he is the only character other than Eliezer who is present throughout the memoir, Eliezer’s father is named only once, at the end of Night. He and Eliezer desperately try to remain…

even when scared half to death.” This quote is relevant throughout Night because braver is a quality that most characters in this book possess. Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography that takes place in 1944, Poland during World War Two. We follow the story of Eliezer and his dad, Shlomo, as they live in various concentration camps in Poland. They and other prisoners have to show bravery to stay alive in hard times. Through Night, Elie Wiesel shows us that bravery is doing the right thing,…