Literature

Question 1

Elie Wiesel’s Perils of Indifference

Answer 1

Indifference is more of a weapon than hatred –> the act of seeing something and still not producing any sort of emotion or will to change it
–> Depicts firsthand accounts of Jewish concentration camps –> if issues were more boradcasted, if issues and inhuman nuanced details were revealed, more people would set out pregouative to help
–> ignoring the issue such as sending ships (FDR) –

Themes:
-Problems in ignorance
-importance of education on topic
-The perils of indifference/ not caring
- Why its better to advocate

Question 2

Go Ask Alice

Answer 2

Goes into spiral –> running alone basically in the streets of NYC, spending time with strangers, unkown whereabouts, continued drug use –> resuluted in death (anonymous author)

Themes:
-Problems with following the wave of rebellion
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Question 3

Clockwork Orange

Answer 3

Protoganist, Alex –> Even after going through immense forms of shock therapy and didactic tactics that infringed upon insanity/cruel means –> He still didn’t change his thought process; the only time changed truly occured was when Alex wanted to change himself and realized by his own understandings the desires to cleanse and get married ect

Themes:
-Change
-Change cannot be cultivated
-importance on self/using self for change –> more effective

Question 4

The Road- Cormac McCarthy

Answer 4

Dystopian/apocolyptic world in which no one can be trusted –> world in which you are constantly have to be looking out for yourself; those that are left have twisted mindsets and have destoryed society –> in the end, the father dies but gives his son the tools to keep on going the best he can –> new group/new family

Themes:
-putting yourself first
-Trust –> damaging world of constantly questioning trust can be
-teaching/leading by example

Question 5

1984

Answer 5

Arent given a life, live in a society in which fear powers them –> controls their emotions and worldview so that they can praise the same being –> in a world that lacks true emotions/freedoms, ideas of two minutes of hate can further cultivate control over others; killing off those who don’t believe and going through so many measures to convert them to love Big Brother; two min of hate = energizing but its a controlling endavor at the end of the day
-Double think: simaultaneously beliving one thing

Themes:
-Fears of government
-limits of control/societal control

Question 6

Horse Walks Into A Bar

Answer 6

By David Grossman –> so caught up in giving a good performance he is willing to cruelly objectify/harrass specific audience embers he deems weaker/infieorior to waste of a cheap laugh

Themes:
-Dangers of low self esteem
-Dangers of perfection
-Dangers of validation
-Willing to step on others to get a desired end product

Question 7

Romeo and Juliet

Answer 7

Themes:
Timely decisions over reckless
-Not making deep plans, not being careful about actions, carelessness
-Problems with dissent and hatred/animosity between two groups

Question 8

The Crucible

Answer 8

John proctor allows himself to die at the end of the book as it is the only way to relive himself of the sin and guilt felt by his affair with abigail

Spirals into a crazy frenze of casting blame/witchhood onto others/undeserving persons just so

Themes:
-Making the right decisions
-moral dilemmas
-guilt/how to survive with guilt
-mass hysteria

Question 9

Jude the Obscure

Answer 9

Average working class man who years for more –> moves across different towns in england and consistently has a dream to be apart of the scholar-like city of Christminister with dreams of being a refined intellecutal who attends the niversities and is immersed in the culture. However, this dream easily becomes a point of vexation after his dream is not app

Themes:
-Dangers of thinking idealistically
-Why thinking realistically can be more of value
-Hurt of setting your heart out on something