Both of these stories are alike. Night and The Boy in Striped Pajamas both have main characters who don’t know anything about the real Germans, they are both rebellious, and they leave a lasting impact upon themselves or their family. Bruno is an eight year old boy who is the son of a Nazi general who runs a concentration camp; this puts his knowledge on the bias side, as he is taught that the Germans are the best. But he finds out through his experience of witnessing Pavel spill a glass of wine and then getting dragged away and brutally. Wiesel however is a young jewish boy who did not know of the horrors that the Nazis brought down upon the jews.
Although he doesn’t know it, we see his only friends at the stock market saying they would only go to Scrooge’s funeral ‘for the buffet.’ This shows that he is totally alone in the world and we therefore feel sorry for him. At the Beetling shop, people haggle over his possessions. This shows us that everything he worked and lived for does him no good in after life and cannot buy him mourners to keep the rats from ‘gnawing at the wall.’ We also feels sympathy as his debtors are happy to see him dead as they no longer have to pay him. If Scrooge understood, this would pain him and make him feel very alone with no one who cares for him. We, the reader, feel a lot of sympathy when he visits the Cratchit’s as he sees that Tiny Tim has died.
Even though he witnessed many horrible things, he could not believe in his Father’s true work. He died because he was not aware of what was happening in the concentration camps. (Boyne, page 213) it states, “He assumed that it had something to do with keeping the rain out and stopping people from catching colds.” This shows that Bruno had no idea that he was taken to a gas chamber. Standing in the big room, in between skinny, shaved head men, he was more concerned on catching cold than the vision in front of him. Another example of how Bruno was avoiding thinking about what was happening around him was when he said, “I expect we’ll have to wait here till it eases off and then I’ll get to go home” (Boyne, page 212).
This made it way too easy to skip class for us which, was the only downfall. Now that you have met my whole family I can tell you more about Brainless Club. The lifestyle where living is represented by the number 37 and also a triangle, which you will see on the back of every “Xtrordinary 37” shirt I wear. This triangle does not stand for illuminati, even though everyone always assumes it does. It just a symbol Tone decided to use.
Hernando incorporates these characteristics into The Barber to show his value of professionalism. Throughout the story The Barber shows his preciseness in his work. When shaving Torres’ beard he makes sure not to make a mistake. “... to shave that beard like any other one, carefully gently,... ,taking pains not to see that no single pore emitted a drop of blood.”(Tellez 2). The Barber shows professionalism by doing his job perfectly.
Death is an interesting topic to figure out or talk about. Many people claim that they don't fear it but they always specify how they go and never thing about what they leave behind. When someone is diagnosed with an illness and has a limited time to live they go through stages the 5 stages; denial, anger, bargaining, depressing and finally acceptance, once the final stage has been reached then the dying almost seem disconnected from others. This disconnection can anger their family members because the dying doesn’t seem to make "logical" decisions. In A Long Migration by Dr. Vincent Lam (in the book: Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures) the grandfather of Dr. Chen is dying of kidney failure, but he refuses to go to the hospital after being
Victor Frankenstein and Macbeth succeeded in carrying through their desires; however they did not succeed in achieving happiness. This is evident as they gained power, became obsessed, and grew distant from friends and family. Although ambition is an amazing quality to have, there are things that may trigger a person to let their ambition turn into obsession. Victor and Macbeth both allow their ambition to become obsessive. Victor disliked death and suffering in life because he had lost his mother and it had been too big of a shock for Victor to handle.
This is apparently a problem to them, for the boy had no desires, given his incurable mental illness, “Mad-made objects…could be found in his abstract world.” The couple finally picked a basket with jellies for their son. This makes the reader deeply sympathise the boy’s plight, for a “young man” like him would usually have no interests in jellies which are a suitable present for children. It reflects what his sickness has reduced him to – a teen with intelligence of a child. The boy repeatedly contemplates suicide, and has had yet another failed attempt to do so, and the couple is unable to see him, for fear that “a visit might disturb him”. The couple is revealed to be at a rather old age, “At the time of his birth…now they were quite old.” Their son’s illness has put a huge financial burden on the little family – the father used to be a successful businessman, but is now “wholly dependent on his brother Isaac”.
The only way of escaping of the disease was to move from the city to the country. Even though that sounded realistic and smart, this option was only available to the people will the wealth to afford to travel to the countryside. This plague from people all around Europe and of course, these also caused a major depression in economy. No one wanted to buy anything since they were either very sick or afraid of the disease. It is said that at that time, half of the people you see on the street today will be dead tomorrow, that was how fatal the plague was.
Finally there are close up shots of blood and urine samples as we see Vincent strapping the urine sample to his thigh, putting blood into a fake finger tip and gluing the finger tip onto his own. This artificial and clinical blue lighting, extreme close up and close up images reveal to the audience immediately that Vincent is affected greatly by his body, imprisoned by it perhaps. It seems as if he is in need to ridding himself of any samples of himself that might accidentally float off; perhaps his DNA requires camouflaging? These very close up film techniques introduce the audience to a cramped and prison-like world in the opening scene because the world in the film is a world where people are trapped by their bodily DNA. Despite this, the main character Vincent, who has inferior DNA, desires to reach beyond these imprisoning circumstances, an important idea in the film.