Prompt C

I walked through what was now a barren city of broken buildings. Searching. Food, water, anything would be a blessing. After searching a while I finally found a can. It dawned on me, I had no way to open it. So the searching began again. I came across tools for a fire place. It took all my strength to pick the tools up, let alone try to open the can with them. I struck the lip of the can for a few minutes, slowly opening it. One wrong strike and the can was on the floor. It rolled away, leaking the contents of the can, but a far more frightening sight came to me as i looked up. A German soldier, standing on the stairs, watching me. My heart sank. "What do I do?" I thought to myself. We both stood in silence for a few moments, both astonished. He proceeded to question me about what I was doing, if I was Jewish, where I was hiding, and my occupation. I explained to him that I was a pianist and he made me play him something. I was nervous, but if I messed up I'm sure he wouldn't believe me, so I started off slow, it took me a while to get the hang of playing again because of how malnourished I had been. After a few minutes of warming up I began playing faster and faster. I was in my place of peace. It felt like it was just me and the piano, no one could ruin the peaceful state I was in. I played my heart out. After I was done playing the German soldier was amazed. He realized that the people they are killing are real people, they have jobs, they are real and amazing people. He felt as if I didn't deserve being killed, he knew it was the wrong thing to do, so he went against what his orders would be. He helped me. A German, helped a Jew. I was amazed as well as thankful. He brought me food to where I was hiding every once in a while until they had been pushed out by the Russians. A German soldier, helped a Jew. 

Prompt A.

There are many ways Elie Weisel, from Night and Wladyslaw Szpilman, from The Pianist compare and contrast. At the beginning of their stories both of the characters start out with their families and friends in their towns and houses. As the story progresses they are both separated from their families and friends. Elie and Wladek are alike in the way that they are both quiet and keep to themselves. Neither of the characters are very outgoing. Elie is very dependent of his father at the beginning but Wladek is very independent. Their families are both packed into the train and taken away, Elie was in the train but in The Pianist, Wladek's friend saved him and he did not get on the train. Both of the characters witnessed people being killed whether if they were shot or burned alive. Also, both of the characters were put in a ghetto. A ghetto is a place that is jam packed with people, it is highly over populated. Ghettos were filthy, unsanitary, cramped, and just overall cruel places. After leaving the ghettos the Jews were taken to concentration camps through trains in both stories, but Wladek did not get on the train, he stayed in the ghetto, but Elie was taken in the train to Auschwitz. Overall, the characters Elie Weisel and Wladek Szpilman are very similar in many ways. 

Night - Post 3

    In my opinion Night by Elie Weisel was a very good and interesting book. There are many lessons to take away from this book, one that stuck out to me was to never give up hope, because something good is always right around the corner even if it doesn't seem like it. The hardest part of the book for me is when his father dies, Elie feels great guilt but relieved at the same time. It also touched me when he looked in a mirror for the first time since leaving Sighet, he said it looked like a corpse was looking back at him, he no longer saw himself in the mirror. The reason he survived was because the camp was liberated, if the camp had not been liberated Elie would have died from his food poisoning. Overall I enjoyed this book a lot.

Night - Post 2

Part I.

       The relationship between Elie and his father change a lot throughout the book. At the beginning of the book they have a regular father-son relationship. His father gives him advice about things just like the average father does. But as the book progresses their relationship begins to change. At one point in the book they help each other sleep while one would watch over them. Also, Elie has to teach his dad how to march so he wouldn't get beaten.

Part II.

     One of the camps Elie went to was Auschwitz. Auschwitz was the most deadly of all the concentration camps in the holocaust. It was located in Poland and the conditions were horrible. For the prisoners they had to share a bunk with 2 other men usually, the toilet was a bucket, and it often was only changed once a day. The Jewish men had to work hard all day long, and the women were often killed as they arrived at the camp.

Night - Post 1

Part I.

      In the book Night by Elie Wiesel Mrs. Shacter is a very important character, even though she only says a few things. While they are riding the train Mrs. Shacter keeps yelling things such as, "Look! Look at this terrible fire! Have mercy on me!". She continues to scream things about a fire that she sees, but everyone thinks she is crazy and just ignores her. Mrs. Shacter symbolizes the fear and uncertainty that the Jews have about where they are going, what is going to happen, and the crematoria.

Part II.

      In the book, Elie has his gold crown ripped from his tooth. This represents the greediness of the Nazis. They went through the trouble to hold Elie down to get a tiny piece of gold from his mouth. They also did this to take every bit of wealth from the Jews as possible. They wanted them to have no wealth whatsoever. They wanted to make them less like humans and more like animals as much as possible. 

Holocaust

Part I

The holocaust was when Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Germany and he was trying to kill all Jewish people. He did this by putting them in concentration camps, making them work until they were sent to death by gas chamber. After they were killed in the gas chamber the bodies were stripped of clothes and jewelry and burned.

Part II

Image 1

- Striped clothing, boys, barbed wire fencing, look unhappy, and look sort of dirty.

Keyword: Hopeless.

Image 2

- Bunkbeds, men, very skinny, malnourished, tattered clothing, cramped space.

Keyword: Deprived.

Image 3

The items that they took from the people they killed before they burned their bodies. Glasses and jewelry.

Keyword: Faceless.

Clip 1

very sad clips, grave stones, cruel, mean, taken away on trains.

Keyword: Cruel.

Part III

The things that happened in the holocaust were overall very cruel, punishment that doesn't even happen in prison and the prisoners didn't even do anything to deserve it.

Part IV

My family and friends would all be split up, I don't know if I would see them again, I would be working all day with very little food or water, I would be punished and possibly even killed if I disobeyed or messed up on accident. The punishment and conditions are very cruel. I would pack all of my meaningful things, I wouldn't pack clothes because I wouldn't be allowed to wear them anyways, I would bring pictures of my family and friends, pens, pencils, and paper so I could keep a sort of diary, or write about what is going on,

Analyze a Song

No Quitter Go Getter - Lil Wayne

I'm goin for the gold,
My heart is in control,
My mind is on succeed,
And I am in the lead.
Don't buy into the scheme
The science or stratege
Just giant N-U-T's
Brings triumph and believe
I'm reliant on riddim
Inspired by the green
Never tired nor fatigue
Never defiant to my team
Never lying on the thing
Until I'm lying on the thing
Hooked to wires and things
I'm a die as a king
If I don't
Do it now
I'm a try it again
When I do accomplish it
I'm a try it again
I'm a riot insane
I'm a lion my mane
Hangs down
To my strings
And they're tied to the game
I stay dry when it rain
I'm tired of the fame
Got everything to gain
And I'm proud of the pain
The pride and the blame
The wise and the strange
Denied by the sane
Besides we're the same
Who's guiding the train
Who's flying the plane
Who's driving the lane
Who dies when it bang
Who fires when it bang
Who lies in the aim
Two lives in the drain
Who cries when they sing
You hide but you can't
You hide but you ain't
I advise you to think
You won't find what you can't
Revive what you taint
Survive what you paint
Supersize what you shake
The fries and a drink
Admired as a saint
Defined by my rank
Combined with my strength
my time and my length
And I'm a iron out the kinks
Yes I'm on the brink
And in the eye of a wink
I'm a retire in a bank yeah

And I'm no quitter cause 

I'm a go I'm a go I'm a go getta and I'm no quitter 

cause I'm a go I'm a go I'm a go getta
Yeah I I'm gon get it I

 I'm gon get it yeah I'm gon get it yeah
Cause I'm a go I'm a go I'm a go getta

Victory consistently
Train all year
To be the enemy's misery
No stress visibly
Neither does it enter me
I think postively
You can't harm me mentally
Not physically
Not spiritually
You'll never get rid of me
I am the epitome
Of "this is what you did to me"
Nothing is what you did for me
Nothing is what you give to me
I take whatever I'm visioning
Now break all the limiting
Now shake all the gimmicking
The fakery
The trickery
Nurse
How sick is he
Worse
I'm sickening
I'll be at the finish line
First
How quick is he
I'm on that show
They mention me
For the next century
I ain't with the bickering
I am full of dignity
I am full of energy
Pull out the inner me
A bull after dinner meat
I stood in the winter heat
It could be the end of me
But good be defending me yeeeaaahhh

And and I'm no quitter 

I'm a go I'm a go I'm a go getta 

yeeeaaahhhh and I'm no quitter 

I'm a go I'm a go I'm a go getta 

and I'm no quiter I'm a go I'm a go I'm a go getta

Yeaah

I'm allergic to cheating
I hate failure
And I am in love with achievement
Above and beneath it
A hug when I greet it
My eyes on the prize
And I love when I seek it
Done with the speaking
Begun with the preaching
I pray
Until I am one with the deacon
I play
Until I have won whatever we win
I play
Until I have won and then I re-win
Yeeeaaahhhh!

And I'm no quitter
I'm a go I'm a go I'm a go getta
Yeeeaaaahhh
And I'm no quitter
I'm a go I'm a go I'm a go getta
I'm gon get it yeah I'm gon get it yeah I'm gon get it yeah
And I'm no quitter
I'm a go I'm a go I'm a go getta
Yeeeaaaahhh
And I'm no quitter
I'm a go I'm a go I'm a go getta
Yeeeaaaahhh
And I'm no quitter
I'm a go I'm a go I'm a go getta
And I'm no quitter

Analyze

"I'm goin for the gold,
My heart is in control,
My mind is on succeed,
And I am in the lead."

In these lines he is talking about how he is determined to be successful and he's on the right track to be successful.

"If I don't do it now
I'm a try it again
When I do accomplish it
I'm a try it again"

In this set of lines he is talking about if he fails he will keep trying until he succeeds, and when he does succeed he will try it again to get better whatever it is.

"And I'm no quitter
I'm a go I'm a go I'm a go getter"

In this line again he's talking about how he doesn't quit, he keeps trying until he succeeds and he is determined to make that happen.

"I think postively

You can't harm me mentally
Not physically
Not spiritually
You'll never get rid of me"

In these lines he is explaining how he is always positive and he cannot be brought down while he is determined to get something done. 

"I'm allergic to cheating
I hate failure
And I am in love with achievement"

Here he is expressing how he hates cheating, he does things the right way, because that's how you become better and really achieve and succeed at things.

Overall I believe Lil Wayne wrote this song to express how important it is to not give up, keep your eyes on the prize and never give up. The lines I chose above prove this. He hates using cheating to succeed, and he loves to succeed no matter what it takes.