America: Across My Youth

In the internationally acclaimed novelette Night, Elie Wisel discloses his experiences as a young Holocaust prisoner in the Second World War. The following is an excerpt from Night,

I am not so naïve as to believe that this small volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent today will remain silent tomorrow. (9)

Elie Wisel’s faith in the moral evolution of humanity is insurmountable. The author resents the bystanders of the Holocaust who minimalize the unconditional destruction of their Judaic existence. Wisel’s first-hand account on the abominations of World War II correspond to the concavities, which are evident in those who reject the presence of moral decency in society. The effects on bildungsroman create what are now an anomalous generation who are victims of war and it’s atrocities throughout literature and history.

Unavoidable from the dawn of time, recognition of commencement from adolescence to adulthood has been acknowledged in literary genres such as Latin, Greek, and Egyptian mythology and documented in history through biographies, revolutions, and demonstrations. With the coming of age being the conflict of interest, comes the digression of youth. The omission of youth results in the short comings of guidance on the home front needed during wartime. As the psychological effects are being transgressed into the development of adolescence, both the products and hardship have been documented. In letters written by young victims of the Civil War, who have forfeited hopes of the human conviction; the perspective of the pomposity of propaganda posters in World War I, who tried to sell the idea of patriotism; the rude awake...

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...nish the signs of War will only go so far. So when they realize they are without parent as a pilot gas mask they will be comforted with the consciousness of bloodshed destruction in reality: the war from which they hide from.

Adversity of the Red Scare where on the rise during the cold war. The United States began a campaigning for the eradication of communist sympathizers and the government threats of communist espionage had been revealed to the American public and accusations of communist sympathizers was in the internal government were threatening it patriotic integrity. Organizations involving communist leaders were subject to investigation and or termination. Senator Joseph McCarthy was a prominent figure during the Cold War. Coin to turn McCarthyism, Joseph McCartney had many officials blacklisted and terminated during the vociferous campaign during 1950-1953.