Night Age Quotes

What would you do if you were in a family crisis and given a 10,000 for your family member passing away? In the play Walter Younger goes through many different moral problems and has bad ego due to the money that has been given to the family. In this play during the late 1950s, there was a lot of racial problems, black skin color was discriminated and abused. Walter younger shows that he cares more about money rather than caring about his families care and well being. He rather open up a liquor store to get more money and keep his family living in the ran down apartment not thinking about all of the bad stuff that can possibly happen to his kin. Throughout this book making this a great mood changing book to read many sequal of events happen throughout the book.

There is no justifiable reason for taking the life of an innocent man, it is an wrongful act that Dick becomes blind to. The fact that Dick can once again plan someone’s murder without giving it a second thought, shows the reader how much of an animal he truly

In life it is important that you remember that you cannot give up on your goals. Accomplishing your goals can improve your personality and lead to a happy life. Goals are never easy to reach but by leaving them behind you are only letting yourself and others down. Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen, shows that it is important to have determination to achieve your goals.

The young waiter has a harsh view of him as well because on occasion the old man has been so drunk he walks out on his bill. The younger waiter has a different respect for time, it’s precious to him and he values it. “I wish he would go home. I never get to bed before three o’clock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?” “He stays up because he likes it.” “He’s lonely, I’m not lonely. I have a wife waiting in bed for me.” “He had a wife once too” (153). The older you get, the more time wears down on you, and you begin to now, greater than ever, feel your mortality. This theme is used to help the reader understand the older mans pain and that no matter how young and confident someone is, they will eventually grow old and die.

Have you ever had rights taken away from you because of your beliefs? In the novel, Night, By Elie Wiesel the Jews had their rights stripped away from them by the Nazi’s. Throughout the holocaust the conditions of the Jews’ and the process of Dehumanization got worse.

“In a few seconds, we had ceased to be men” (PG.36). Elie is a jewish boy from Transylvania and is taken to Auschwitz where he is separated from his mother and sister. His father and Elie are moved the the concentration camp called “Buna” and spend most of their time there. They then had to be evacuated to Gleiwitz, where they ran about 42 miles to get there. They spent about 3 days there and then they were transported to Buchenwald by train. There they are rescued by Americans and a resistance part that attacked the camp. Sadly Elie’s father dies in Buchenwald due to a sickness and being sent to the crematory. Dehumanization of the Jewish people in “Night” ,by Elie Wiesel, happened in a variety of ways and helped Hitler achieve his ideas about Jewish people.

What if you lived in a society where love is considered a disease? Lena and Alex live in a world where the government sees love as illegal. People can get arrested for being in love, and even be executed for it. The book that this society is in is called Delirium, by Lauren Oliver. Lena and Alex fall in love in this dystopian society, and try to defy the government. They meet up secretly, and even try to escape together. A message that I’ve gotten from this is that love can’t be restrained no matter what.

“ It’s like a soul that was much too big for her it filled her to the brim till there was no more space so it's followed out through her eyes” (lake 17)

Instead, Diver must increasingly "restate the universe for her", as part of her treatment. Nicole follows Dick "walking on her hands". She is after all "one to whom nothing need be explained and one to whom nothing could be explained". When the dying Mr. Warren requests to see his daughter, Diver claims she "is not strong enough to decide the matter for herself (249). Diver consults Franz but does not allow Nicole a say in the situation. Thus, Diver exhibits his controlling character in maintaining the right to make his wife's decisions for her. Nicole has no identity of her own: she identifies herself with Dick and is so dependent on him that she almost wants to be him. So much so that she even wants to become a writer like him: "I want to be a fine person like you, Dick, -- I would study medicine." When Diver once describes his love for Nicole, he calls it "a wild submergence of soul, a dipping of all colors into an obscuring dye." There is little doubt that he believes Nicole is entirely to blame for the loss of his youthful personality. Nicole sucked the life out of him: all his energy is diverted to her needs and when she has used him enough, she abandons him for another man.  She is the cause of his marked degeneration; she is, after all, a woman whose wealth and mental instability stunt his

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he tells his story of the Holocaust and how the Nazis tried to destroy the jewish race.. In the Holocaust, the Nazis thought the Jews were less than them. Elie tells the story of how the Nazis tried to eliminate the Jews. . The Naizs treated the Jewish people badly because they dehumanized them, they treated them as they were nothing, and the Nazis destroyed the Jews from the inside out.

What the readers know of Dick’s past is very little, as Capote works to characterize him through flashbacks the readers know it was his plan to kill the Clutters and he does have some family “there were those Dick claimed to love: three sons, a mother, a father, a brother—persons he hadn’t dare confide his plan to(Capote 106).” But Capote characterizes Dick more so through descriptions of his habits than through his memories. “Inez was a prostitute…she was eighteen and Dick had promised to marry her. But he had also promised to marry Maria, a women of fifty who was a widow of a very rich banker(Capote 118-119)” Dick is shown throughout the book as someone who uses people to get what he wants, he calls on Perry to help him with his plan, he uses women for sex and money while making promises he never intends to keep. “If he knew Dick, and he did—now he did—would spend the money right away on vodka and women(Capote 119). Capote does not draw any sympathy from the readers, Dick is perceived as an emotionless man who pretends to believe in people and want the same

The novel Night is Eliezer Wiesel’s memoir of his experience during the Holocaust. He is forced into a life that many people his age wouldn’t be put into. He witnesses many deaths and he himself is living under horrible conditions. These horrific events in this moment of time make Elie question his faith in God.

In the flashback, a hobo visits Dick’s family. The hobo explains to him that because he is constantly on the move, every day is a new day. This hobo has mastered the art of forgetting about his past and lives only in the present. Dick has been taught from a young age that forgetting about his past is the best way to be content. According to Shelley E. Taylor in her book Positive Illusions, “ When people are in a particular mood…they will remember and think about information that is congruent with that mood (Taylor 68).

Many people are controlled by fear and are made to do things that aren’t right. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Jews are being controlled by fear and are stripped of their rights. In the present world mainly in Syria, ISIS, the radical group that fights for terror, is doing the same to frighten the world and kill those who don’t obey them just as the Germans did to the Jews. Terrorism around the world is controlling people by fear. For instance, let’s talk about how in both situations the victims decide to realize their fate because of how bad things have gotten.

Nicole, although beautiful and elegant, was flawed. Described by Dick as a ‘beautiful empty shell', she was the object of Dick Diver's romantic imagination. He took it upon himself, to obtain this ‘beautiful shell', despite the obvious problems and warnings from his associates. Looking at his ‘need' for her, it wasn't just love; it was also the need for a challenge and he put his entire effort into proving that Nicole could be changed. When he met Rosemary, things started to look up. Finally he had met a woman, although not as beautiful as Nicole, that was stable and independent. He took advantage of her love for him to experience what a relationship with two equal participants would be like. After he had tasted what a relationship like this was like, his dream became