All The Light We Cannot See By Anthony Doerr

Lucas Hahn Mr. Rodriguez Academic Lit. 15 June, 2023 The Cellar Analysis Throughout Lucas Hahn's short story The Cellar, the author explores the limits of human endurance both mentally and physically. The author portrays the mental limits of humans when we look at the character Ryan. Ryan at the beginning of the story was just a normal teenager, but at the end of the book he turned into a murderer.

There is often a time in Asian Americans’ lives when they experience a cultural disconnect: being too “White” for their Asian relatives, yet too “Asian” for their White peers. These feelings are true for Jay Reguero, the protagonist of Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay. Throughout the novel, Jay, a Filipino-American, struggles with feeling like an outsider in the Philippines because he cannot speak his mother tongue and has spent his entire life in the U.S. During his time in the Philippines, he attempts to connect with his culture but he is constantly reminded of how little he knows and understands about the Philippines. Therefore, this novel is about Jay’s struggle with his cultural identity and his feelings of guilt from not connecting

The Killer Angels, a book written by Michael Shaara that explains the crucial Battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War, along with the perspectives and lives of both the leaders of North and South. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War is explained through the eyes of the leaders of Union and Confederates in a way that is breathtaking and exhilarating. Even though South was determined and bold; The North was able to wear the confederates down because of their leaders who had a strategic plan and clear concept of war to take in prisoners and win for the sake of freedom. The essential concept of war for the Unions meant to free the prisoner slaves and restore the balance and freedom to the country they had fought from the British.

In the novel All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, There is a thematic question that reappears throughout the book. The question that is posed by the author is: How do German and European education systems differ from America’s, what subjects and practices are valued there, and which is most positively affecting the students? Question first appeared in the novel when one of the main characters, an orphan named Werner, takes an interest and repairing radios in his neighborhood. During one of these jobs, a wealthy man named Herr Seidler tells Werner About an opportunity to go to school. he says, “‘Smart beyond your years.

Melancholy is the dominating mood in the book entitled “Between Shades of Gray” by Ruta Sepetys. Through this nail-biting adventure, you will encounter the agonizing events of Lina and her family during June 1941. Surely, any sane person would feel the sorrowful events that the Lithuanians had felt during the barbaric events that took place during the duration of World War 2. Specifically, why I felt an overwhelming feeling of sadness throughout the novel was thinking of the horrific events that the Lithuanians went through. Particularly in chapter 26 when Lina, a 15 year old girl, was forced to strip in front of NKVD officers along with many other women.

Perseverance is a theme evident throughout Elie Wiesel's Night, as the author's survival in the concentration camps is a testament to his unwavering determination. In chapter 7 of Night, Elie and his father are transferred to a new concentration camp, where they are forced to endure grueling labor and terrible living conditions. Despite their situation's physical and emotional tolls, Elie remains determined to survive and keep his father alive. " I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me?

“It is impossible to outplay an opponent you can’t outthink.” This quote by Lawson Little can be used to explain how in The Power of One, by Bryce Courtenay, Peekay’s ability to outthink his opponents is what drives him to victory. Furthermore, it does not have to be boxing that he out-thinks his opponents, there are numerous times where Peekay is shown thinking ahead of some situations saving him from misfortune, as well as outsmarting his opponents eventually leading him to victory. Peekay illustrates his intelligence by thinking ahead of situations, which in the end result, benefit him the most. To start off, with the judge on the brink of failing, Peekay “cast [his] mind back to when [he] had done the judges homework, just like that”

Humans' natural instinct to survive takes over when they are in perilous circumstances. The need to save yourself would be the first thing that would come to mind, regardless of how self-centered the choice might be. In the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel talks about his experience while in the concentration camps and how every often they were faced with life and death situations. When the Jewish people first arrive at the camp, they seem to care about each other and help each other. However, as the Holocaust progresses and the conditions the prisoners are forced into worsen, they are left with no choice but to focus solely on their own survival.

In Nothing But the Truth there is one thing that stood out to me throughout the entire book. The whole book is full of lies. Philip Malloy tells lies about everything and to everyone. He lies to his parents, the principal, and even to a reporter that is interviewing him. Throughout the book we continue to see the lies play out until the very end of the book when Philip finally decides to tell the truth.

The author shows how terrifying it was to be in the camps but also how faith can help you get through those tough times. Religion and faith can shape a person's form in different ways either a good or bad way. The book shows how these camps can use a person's humanity, and How it can affect their religion. Eliezer and his family got captured and taken to camps, while some died and others were injured. Eliezer had to use his faith in god to know they would come out alive even if he had second thoughts.

As Janie ages, she has been going through different stages of loves and misloves, which gradually introduced her to reveal her feminnity. In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston depictures Janie’s feminism through her growth of life from an innocent and vulnerable 17 years old girl who had not yet experienced love to a true women who forgets “all those things (she doesn’t) want to remember, and remember(s) everything (she doesn’t) want to forget” (1) in various of perspectives: Janie’s education and her grandmother’s instigation about marriage; Janie’s misloves with Logan and Jody; and Janie’s love for Tea Cake. Before Janie even learned the concept of “love”, Hurston showed how Janie was raped when she still had her “womanly”

False accusations can ruin someone’s life and their reputation. In the short story Doubt, written by John Patrick Shanley, a nun, sister Aloysius, accuses a priest, Father Flynn, of sexually abusing a young boy named Donald. It is never confirmed whether the accusations are correct. I believe that this accusation of Father Flynn’s sexual abuse is not true. The author persuaded readers that Flynn is not guilty because Flynn is confused by the accusations, Flynn is trying to protect Donald, and readers could also say that Flynn is guilty because, he had past parishes from other churches for unknown reasons and when he touched a boy’s wrist he flinched.

Perhaps most widely known as a deeply talented Harlem Renaissance writer, Zora Neale Hurston also trained under Franz Boas as an anthropologist. Studying at Barnard in the 1920s, she was the only black student at the school, and in 1928, she became the first to graduate. When she pursued a graduate degree at Columbia, Boas encouraged her interest in African-American folklore. It was this research that informed her fiction, particularly her use of dialect and “folk speech” in works like “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Hurston grew up in the town of Eatonville, Florida, an all-black community established in the wake of the Civil War, and she returned home to chronicle the folklore, sermons and music she’d grown up hearing.

Everyone has depression, but did you know on October 29, 1929 the whole US went into depression. People lost their jobs, people lost their homes and lot’s of other things. Every bits and piece was super valuable at that time. Some effects the Great Depression had on people at that time was people lost their money. In an article called Digging In by Robert Hastings a girl explains how importants every minute of light is.

C.S Lewis’s “Country of the Blind” shows the author’s beliefs in the society in which he lived in. As a young man Lewis rejected the idea of their being a God. As he got older he formed a strong friendship with J.R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien provided Lewis with evidence that there was, in fact, a higher being and therefore being the inspiration behind this poem. The Country of the Blind, written in third person, is about society’s people rejecting truth and evidence.