Compare/Contrast Shoah/Night

Night and Shoah are similar in that both of them are describing the horrors of the holocaust. However they are different in that they Night focuses more on survival, were as Shoah focuses more on death which show that experiences were different for everyone.

The Road

The thing that makes a book or movie depressing is when the main character or his/her friend is no longer part of the story. This is the reason because you have come to like this character and you want them to survive and for them to live happily ever after but when they don't you feel let down and sad for them.

Persepolis post #2

2) Her individual spirit clashed with politics because the new government had put restriction on people especially women. So therefore, some of the things that she wanted to do she couldn't because the government was oppressing her.

Persepolis posts #1

1) Iranian culture and her childhood clash on a very large scale. She was a child when culture, government, and politics were changing. For example; she was forced to wear a veil in school because the new government said that she had to do so.

Black Boy Themes

1) Richard was ignored by his mother which caused him to be independent and resent authority figures.

-When Richard was asked to go to the grocery store and is mother gave him a note, he was beat up by kids and was robbed. When he came back his mother told him not to come back until he got the groceries in which he resented his mother for that and was able to fight for himself.

-This connects to ignorance because Richard was ignored and got stronger because of it. 

2) Richard was isolated from the truth which caused him to question and become depressed.

-When Richard was asking about the boat that they would be staying on, his mother told him that it would great and lied about it so he became depressed.

Twist

-Tone/Mood

-Word Choice-Metaphors, similes, connotation, personification

-Imagery-Senses, especially sound

-Style- Punctuation, syntax, etc.

-Theme

T- The authors tone is confused and desperate
W- "Bleeding grass" is personification because the statement is giving the grass human like qualities.
I- You can smell the freshly cut grass. He was so hungry that he could taste the grass. 

S- He describes the nouns in the sentence very well, for example "Cloudy Notion" and "new cut grass"
T- The theme is hunger because he feels that he is hunger all the time.

Claim- The theme is hunger which is a continuous struggle throughout his life.

E-Tone is the desperate words that he articulates throughout the quote such as Bleeding Grass and Cloudy notion.

R- He is constantly reminded about his hunger which makes him more and more desperate.

Alliteration- different words but with the same letters
B
Conotation,
Denatation, Dialog,Diction-The word choice
Exaggeration
Foreshadowing
G
Hyperbole
Imagery
J
K
L
Metaphor
N
Onimonapia- sound
Personification-non human thing but human qualities
Q
Rhyme
Simile
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z