Keep Hope Alive

Child Called It. It is written by Dave Pelzer. The theme of this book is to keep hope alive. You should have faith and dreams to have something to look forward to in your future especially when you feel you can’t go on any more. Like Dave, he felt trapped as if he was never going to be free. He used his dreams and illusions every time he was hurting to help him get away from the pain. This is what kept this little boy alive. He had something to reach for and never quit.      The protagonist is a

Tutu shared, "Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness." This quote expresses the thought that even in dark times, you must look for positivity to survive. This is true for the character Elena in the novel Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys. Elena, a mother of two finds herself in distress when she and her family are taken from their home and sent to camps. The hope that Elena has to reunite her family once more, ultimately keeps her and children alive. Therefore

The only thing stronger than fear is hope. Throughout Elie’s time in the internment camps he encountered much death and hardship. He was enslaved, threatened, and nearly starved to death. Through all the struggles, Wiesel was able to survive by keeping hope. In ‘Night’ by Elie Wiesel, hope was just as strong of a weapon as fear. The Nazi’s use fear as a weapon to keep control over the prisoners. Two steaming pots of soup lay out in the open, but no one dares to go and take it. One man decides to

Despite the bitter realities, we always search for the silver lining or light at the end of the tunnel. There's always that one key aspect that keeps one motivated to continue on. The value of Hope is proven in Elie Wiesel's memoir Knight as well as throughout The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy. Although the key to survival is maintaining hope, while simultaneously the delusions can be one's Achilles Heal. Despite the value of optimism, false delusions often leave one vulnerable as

Hope is like a river of life, keeping hope makes the river flow, while giving up hope makes a drought of death. Having and keeping hope is important, without it, one isn’t safe. This is expressed thoroughly in many stories. The short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell, is about Rainsford, a renowned big game hunter, getting trapped on an island where General Zaroff, another hunter, is in charge. General Zaroff believes that animals are too easy to catch, that they bore him

Don’t. Lose. Hope. In the post-apocalyptic novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy, a man and a boy travel south across the States hoping for a safer life after an unknown devastating cataclysmic event leaves people defenseless and the only source of life. Humanity is being destroyed and it’s every man for himself, though McCarthy never states the exact cause of the downfall it’s implied that because of humanity's greed and destructive nature, the world is ending. There is no longer civilization and most

“Hope… Sometimes that’s all you have when you have nothing else. If you have it. You have everything .” In The Road by Cormac McCarthy a recurring theme in the story is gaining or losing hope. Throughout this story there are numerous instances and events that occur in which all seems lost at a dead end, but in those moment hope carries through and thrives. In this dystopian post apocalyptic world the man and boy are fighting to stay alive while keeping their humanity as well as searching for what

“Where there is life, there is hope.” In The Road by Cromac McCarthy a reoccurring theme in the story is hope, whether it is losing or gaining it. Throughout this story there are numerous instances and events that occur in which all seems lost at a dead end, but in those moment hope carries through and thrives. In this dystopian post apocalyptic world the man and boy or fighting to stay alive while keeping their humanity as well as searching for what humanity is left in this kill or be killed cannibalistic

Approximately fourteen million people died during the Holocaust, and losing innocence was just a part of the objectification process. After going through the process and staying alive, innocence would be almost impossible to keep grasp of, considering the fact that once it is lost innocence can never be regained. In Night on page 55, Elie said “He told us that having been chosen because of his strength, he had been forced to place his own father’s body into the furnace." Every time Elie heard something

to either survive the horrific torture or die. Hope was a constant theme that helped some of them survive, while the absence of it for some caused many of them to die. The knowledge that their loved ones survived had a tremendous impact on how hopeful the Jews were, and they were also inspired by overcoming the daily and deadly challenges that the concentration camps posed; however, those horrible events, like the death of a loved one, ripped the hope from many, only to be diminished further by the