The Selection is a novel about a competition held in the palace that ultimately decides who the next Princess of Illea is going to be. 35 girls are chosen in total and all have dates and additional interactions with the Prince to win his heart. America Singer, a 5, was chosen to be a part of this competition after being prompted to apply by her lover Aspen. For 2 years, they’ve been secretly seeing each other, which is illegal. Now, she has to be a part of a competition attempting to fall in love with someone while already loving someone. Additionally, she can’t just ask to leave because being a segment of the Selection provides money to her family, which is a necessity. At first, she believed Prince Maxon was an egotistical, formal, and boring …show more content…
Anna, one of the Chosen, was sent home because she slapped Celeste in a heated argument. According to America “Anna Farmer, a sweet girl who wouldn’t hurt a fly slapped Celeste? Celeste surely had something to do with it.” This demonstrates how peculiar it was of Anna to hurt Celeste and how manipulative Celeste is to obtain what she desires. Furthermore, it was stated later that Celeste insulted Anna’s parents which caused her to slap Celeste. I disagree with Maxon’s decision of allowing Celeste to remain in the competition because she hurts and sabotages the other girls, which is against the rules. However, Maxon isn’t at fault because he’s oblivious to it but her actions are inadequate. Celeste was jealous of Kriss and the attention she was getting at her birthday party and spilled wine on her beautiful dress, which she claimed was an accident. Keeping Celeste in the competition is a negligent decision because her personality is toxic and she seeks to harm others, and her personality towards Prince Maxon is superficial and
The tragedies of the holocaust forever altered history. One of the most detailed accounts of the horrific events from the Nazi regime comes from Elie Wiesel’s Night. He describes his traumatic experiences in German concentration camps, mainly Buchenwald, and engages his readers from a victim’s point of view. He bravely shares the grotesque visions that are permanently ingrained in his mind. His autobiography gives readers vivid, unforgettable, and shocking images of the past. It is beneficial that Wiesel published this, if he had not the world might not have known the extent of the Nazis reign. He exposes the cruelty of man, and the misuse of power. Through a lifetime of tragedy, Elie Wiesel struggled internally to resurrect his religious beliefs as well as his hatred for the human race. He shares these emotions to the world through Night.
Night by Elie Wiesel and First They Came for the Jew by Martin Niemoller both show two perspectives of people throughout the Holocaust. The poem by Niemoller is about him staying silent to survive because the people they were coming for where not his people he shows this by saying “I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.” The book by Wiesel talks about just staying alive because he knew his chances of living were not great but pushing through as he says in this quote “I could have gathered all my strength to break rank and throw myself into the barbed wire.” As stated in both quotes both Night and First They Came for the Jews share the theme of survival. Even though what they had to do to survive is different Niemoller has to stay quiet to survive, but Wiesel has to do much more then just stay silent even though he must do that too.
Wiesel’s community at the beginning of the story is a little town in Transylvania where the Jews of Sighet are living. It’s called “The Jewish Community of Sighet”. This is where he spent his childhood. By day he studied Talmud and at night he ran to the synagogue to shed tears over the destruction of the Temple. His world is a place where Jews can live and practice Judaism. As a young boy who is thirteen at the beginning of the story, I am very impressed with his maturity. For someone who is so young at the time he is very observant of his surroundings and is very good at reading people. In the beginning he meets Moishe the Beadle. Moishe is someone who can do many different types of work but he isn’t considered qualified at any of those jobs in a Hasidic house of prayer (shtibl). For some reason, though young Elie is fascinated with him. He meets Moishe the Beadle in 1941. At the time Elie really wants to explore the studies of Kabbalah. One day he asks his father to find him a master so he can pursue this interest. But his father is very hesitant about this idea and thinks young E...
“The Perils of Indifference” In April, 1945, Elie Wiesel was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp after struggling with hunger, beatings, losing his entire family, and narrowly escaping death himself. He at first remained silent about his experiences, because it was too hard to relive them. However, eventually he spoke up, knowing it was his duty not to let the world forget the tragedies resulting from their silence. He wrote Night, a memoir of his and his family’s experience, and began using his freedom to spread the word about what had happened and hopefully prevent it from happening again.
Elie Wiesel was by no means a stranger to pain and suffering. As a child he was separated from his family as they were sent to live in the deplorable living conditions of Auschwitz among countless others. He remained there for more than a year, and although he survived, both his parents and his little sister did not. After he was liberated, he dedicated his life to speaking against injustice and indifference, things which weighed heavily on his heart. On April 12th, 1999, he was invited to speak at the White House Millennium Lecture series on the exigency of indifference. The Millennium Lecture series were a series of lectures given over multiple evenings in the wake of a new millennium. They were intended to bring out the creativity and inventiveness
As humans, we require basic necessities, such as food, water, and shelter to survive. But we also need a reason to live. The reason could be the thought of a person, achieving some goal, or a connection with a higher being. Humans need something that drives them to stay alive. This becomes more evident when people are placed in horrific situations. In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, he reminisces about his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust. There the men witness horrific scenes of violence and death. As time goes on they begin to lose hope in the very things that keep them alive: their faith in God, each other, and above all, themselves.
Elie Wiesel once stated that “More dangerous than anger and hatred is indifference. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end-and it is always the friend of the enemy.” Wiesel was a survivor of a German concentration camp called Buchenwald during the Holocaust and later dedicated his life to groups suffering from persecution for their beliefs and discrimination against their national origin. He had first hand experienced of the horrors that anger and hatred are capable of, yet still believed that indifference was worse. This is because indifference shows no emotion, fails to take action against existing anger and hatred, and cannot be used to promote growth within the world.
You are a young and curious child of about fourteen. You wake up and your day begins just like any other, but today isn’t just like any other. Today your life changes forever. You watch your family and friends be gathered up and stuffed into trains, not knowing if you will ever see them again. You are lucky, if you can call it that. You are young and strong, you are to take the gassed bodies of others and send them into the furnaces. You then watch you father die, everyone you have ever loved you now believe to be dead. After you are finally liberated would you have the courage to tell your story to the world, would you be capable of recalling those frightful nights and wrenched mornings. Would you be able to remind yourself of the tortures you faced, and of the loved ones you lost, everyday of your life? Why do historians find Elie Wiesel important, you ask? How has he impacted our world today, you ask? Elie Wiesel did the impossible--he wrote about his experiences life, both during and after the holocaust, his imprisonment in Auschwitz, and the loss of his family. Not only did he speak out about the Holocaust, he spoke out against all genocide--against all acts of one race against another. He promoted human rights and helped keep the world from repeating the Holocaust, from repeating its mistakes.
It is good for a person to stay faithful toward another person because to lose the trust of a person is difficult.
In Elie Wiesel’s Night, he recounts his horrifying experiences as a Jewish boy under Nazi control. His words are strong and his message clear. Wiesel uses themes such as hunger and death to vividly display his days during World War II. Wiesel’s main purpose is to describe to the reader the horrifying scenes and feelings he suffered through as a repressed Jew. His tone and diction are powerful for this subject and envelope the reader. Young readers today find the actions of Nazis almost unimaginable. This book more than sufficiently portrays the era in the words of a victim himself.
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While I was reading All the Bright Places, I found myself questioning some of the decisions that Violet and Finch were making. One decision that I had questioned,
Georgina’s weakness is Alymer, she will do anything and everything in her power to make him happy. For example, she goes looking through his scientific library and finds his laboratory and she automatically knew she needed to apologize because Alymer was upset. That just shows how everything she does is for him and not herself.
In The Hunger Game, Katniss had a sister called Prim who was picked randomly to join the game. Katniss volunteered as tribute to take Prim’s place “I volunteer!” I gasp. “I volunteer as tribute!” Katniss did this because she knew Prim could not survive in the game and she would do anything that could maintain Prim’s safety. Before getting into the game, Prim and her mom came to see her. Katniss promised Prim she will really try for win the game, “‘You will try, won’t you? Really, really try?’ asks
Once upon a time… I know what you are thinking, oh no not that type of story again. They always go Once a upon a time there was a princess and a prince, then comes along the bad guy they try to keep the princess away from the prince. It works. The bad guy messes up a relationship but then it gets better and they live happily ever after. The End. Those are great stories but are predictable. Not this one, so let’s start again. Once upon a time, there was a beautiful maiden called Danielle. She has the reddest hair you could imagine, (it has the slightest curls); bright blue eyes, light skin, and 5’3. Yes, she was a princess, but not any ordinary one.