Tuesday 26 March 2013

#5 Significance Of?


Night - Elie Wiesel 

Significant Elements
1. The War
2. Perserverence

          The war plays a very significant role in the novel "Night". The war is the cause of every event in the story. It creates a very sad and depressing atmosphere for everyone in the story. It makes it that much tougher for the characters in the story to survive and intensifies the situation that is already a matter of life and death. The war is the main cause of events for this book and the reason that everything happens the way it does. Without the war there would be no story.

          Perseverance is very important to the characters in this story. The characters have no choice but to persevere in order to stay alive. They are already living under terrible conditions. They get very very little food, have no shoes, they have very tiny beds, and their room has no floor. It was very very tough to live under these conditions and the characters would very easily die if they made one little mistake. Perserverance is very very important in this story. If  the characters hadn't perservered the story would be even more depressing and saddening then it already is.


Wiesel, Elie. Night. Toronto, ON: Bantam Books, 1960. Print.


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Friday 22 March 2013

#4 Character Attributes

Courage

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; it is also what it takes to sit down and listen"
-Winston Churchill
Churchill, Winston. "Courage Quotes - BrainyQuote." Famous Quotes at BrainyQuote. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Mar. 2013. <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topic


Courage means to be brave and willing. You have to be willing to take on a task that may be very dangerous or 

In the book Acceleration, courage is demonstrated mainly by the main character. He finds a journal created by a stalker who is experimenting ways to kill people on mice and cats. He is trying to find the person who wrote the journal. He is stalking people who use the TTC Subway in Toronto. He is using this journal to try and find and catch the stalker. He is being very courageous by doing so. He has no idea who this guy is or what he might do to him if he gets caught. He could end up dead. 


McNamee, Graham. Acceleration. New York: Laurel-Leaf, 2003. Print.