Night: Passage Analysis Troubling thoughts consumed young Elie because he saw the ways in which father-son relationships are torn asunder by the camps. He watches as sons deny—or at least consider denying—care to their fathers, putting their own interests before their loved ones. Elie struggles with the same conflict when his father becomes ill, and when his father finally dies, Elie is profoundly sad though also proud that he never wholly compromised his own beliefs about family. The reason that Elie finds the deterioration of father-son relationships so painful is that the maintenance of this relationship seems to be the last barrier between a world that is semi-normal and one that has completely been turned upside down. Elie must continue
As the man's wife points out before her suicide, "the boy was all that stood between him and death" (25). In other words, the man's thirst for survival is fueled by the love for his son. While the man may expect his own death, he lives in order to seek life for the boy. Unlike his wife in her suicide, the man does not wish to "save" his son from civilization's destruction, rape, murder, and cannibalism by killing him preemptively. To the father, suicide is only an option for the son if he is to be imminently harmed.
After witnessing the heart wrenching death Paul states “I become faint, all at once I cannot do any more. I won’t revile any more, it is senseless, I could drop down and never rise up again” (32). Paul soon goes on to witness many more deaths causing sadness and annihilation to become a big part of his life. Soldiers get so use to seeing others die they become oblivious to the fact that each individual’s life is to be held sacred and that they only get one. In the book Paul feels that they have no reason to be fighting and that they have been abated to beasts just trying to protect themselves from others who are doing the same.
A thing which has never happened and has never been heard of up until this point of existence. Yet, he believes he can not bear the punishment God bestowed upon him, for he fears no longer having God’s watchful eye on him anymore, and he fears being killed by the others of the world. If he couldn’t bear the punishment because he would be forced to continue living, alone, and with the guilt of what he did, it would be reasonable for him to be unable to bear it. But that is not the way he sees his punishment. He is being removed from paradise because he himself defiled it and he fears death.
Nevertheless, he is not as fine as Lyman thought. Even though his brother did his best to help him, Henry could not accept the new awful things he was going trough, therefore he took his own life. Watching someone you love suffering is heart wrenching, especially when nothing can be done to help the situation. Erdrich looks at the trauma of a soldier returning home from war and how their family must cope with his emotional change. The effects of war not only affect the soldier, but also cause an effect on families and loved ones.
Perhaps he hadn’t thought about death because the thought of not having Laura would be too much for him to handle in that moment. However, page 52 is when he finally realizes that if he doesn’t find help soon, he may die. It happens when Freddie kisses Angela, and Andy begins to wonder if he’ll ever kiss Laura again. This leads to him contemplating whether or not he will survive this ordeal. He then goes into denial, thinking to himself, “No, I can’t be dying, not from a little street rumble, not from just getting cut.
When conditions are such that it is extremely unlikely anyone on his voyage will survive, he refuses to turn back. This would have likely led to his destruction had he not met Frankenstein, and realised the folly of such pride. Frankenstein is the main character of the novel, and it is he who falls the lowest because of his self-obsession. When he is creating his monster he becomes so wrapped up that he fails to write to his family, and even fails to attend to his most basic needs such as sleep. And yet after all of his work, he is afraid of his creation.
| | “He thinks if he could teach him that, he’d be | | Some good perhaps to someone in the world. | 100 | He hates to see a boy the fool of books. | | Poor Silas, so concerned for other folk, | | And nothing to look backward to with pride, | | And nothing to look forward to with hope, | | So now and never any different.” | 105 | This poem conveys that people want to die on a “good note.” Mary, Warren’s wife impatiently waits for Warren to come home to tell him the news that Silas, a former helper has returned “home” because he is ill. Warren doesn’t want to waste his time dealing with Silas because Silas broke his contract he had with him. Mary pleads that Silas is sick and is in need of great help. Warren doesn’t really care because he thinks that Silas’ rich brother should take care of him.
The feelings of embarrassment or of shame I have felt. The feelings of shame and fear are feelings which eat one up inside. These men in this war had families, and girlfriends, and friends back home and the thought of not seeing them again is always with them. O’Brien also explains that these men would not let any of these feelings show, “Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.” (20) They were men, and they wanted to be brave. They had to swallow up their fear and do things they may not have wanted to or were terrified to do.
He wishes to be left alone now to mourn his tragic losses which leave the audience to feel pity for him. The audience can relate to the same pain as Jason, because they too can suffer the same fate. Hence, more catharsis arises when Jason’s request to “bury [the] bodies and lament” (62) for his children gets denied, causing him to suffer even worse knowing he will never see nor touch his children again. As a consequence, Medea says “You have gambled and lost!” (63), making it clear Jason’s suffering has only begun. Jason learns arrogance brings men nowhere, and as for fate, Jason must now live his life alone, with no one by his