While Israel celebrates its hard-fought independence as a Jewish state, Palestine is still fighting for its rights. Ayman Odeh, a Palestinian contributor, writes about Palestinian’s hidden struggle with Nakba, which refers to the catastrophe of the Israel declaration of independence that resulted in the displacement of millions of Palestinians. In his Op-Ed piece, Odeh’s use of repetition, pathos and parallelism reveals his message of how Israel is acting immorally towards Palestinians.
By using repetition, Odeh demonstrates how oppression against Palestinians is continual and ongoing. He achieves this effect by describing the plight of the village of Umm al-Hiran, where the people were constantly bargaining with the Israeli government to receive recognition and basic utilities. However, they receive no such aid: “[T]he state dug in its heels in and refused, bulldozing the village over and over.” Odeh uses repetition in the end of the
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He states that to end Nakba Israel must accept and respect the existence of Palestinians, especially in their education system, writing, “The Nakba will end when Jewish school children learn the culture or Arab Palestinian, just as Arab children learn Jewish history and culture.” In this sentence, he employs parallelism to compare two ideas: Jewish children learning Palestinian culture and Arab children learning Jewish history and culture. These two ideas are similar, as evidenced by their similar grammatical structure and word choice, but they are also contrasting ideas. The meaning of the sentence is that Arab children are already learning Jewish culture, but Jewish children are not. The use of parallelism in two contrasting ideas highlights the inequality between Jewish and Arab children. Odeh’s message is that the unfairness in Israeli society extends all the way down into children’s
“The War Against The Jews” by Lucy Dawidowicz explores a very dark time in history and interprets it from her perspective. Through the use of other novels, she concurs and agrees to form her opinion. This essay will explore who Dawidowicz is, why she wrote the book, what the book is about, what other authors have explored with the same topic, and how I feel about the topic she wrote about. All in all, much research will be presented throughout the essay. In the end, you will see how strongly I feel about the topic I chose.
She uses parallelism to give people another perspective on how she felt and still feels about being an immigrant in the U.S., so that more people will be able to understand her struggle and be able to relate to it. One of the sentences in the book in which she uses parallelism is, “It made sense at that moment, perhaps by the logic employed moments before bungee jumping” (pg.740). In this sentence Firoozeh compares making the decision to change her name to Julie, to deciding to go bungee jumping. This emphasizes that she had trouble after making this decision and maybe even regretting making the decision because her inner emotions were conflicted. One side of her wanted to just be a normal girl from American while the other side of her wanted to show her heritage and be who she legitimately was. When she references this through the parallelism of someone going bungee jumping, it causes the reader to more easily understand how Firoozeh felt throughout the whole process of changing her name to Julie as a young
The book that will be reviewed is Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury. The author used the effect of parallelism extremely well by showing the similarities of both then and now. In the following paragraphs we're going to encounter these parallelisms, we will compare the book to the time period in which it was written, and our own time period post September 11. Before we can do this we must first get to know the author and the era in which it was based off of just a bit.
The third main relationship is Hasidism verses Zionism. The relationship between the two fathers and the two sons is a very important theme in this book. Because of their different backgrounds, Reb Saunders and David Malters approached raising a child from two totally different perspectives. Despite the obvious differences in the two men’s beliefs, both did what they thought was right for their sons. Reb Saunders was a Hasidic tzaddik and wanted his son to follow in his footsteps.
Six million Jews died during World War II by the Nazi army under Hitler who wanted to exterminate all Jews. In Night, Elie Wiesel, the author, recalls his horrifying journey through Auschwitz in the concentration camp. This memoir is based off of Elie’s first-hand experience in the camp as a fifteen year old boy from Sighet survives and lives to tell his story. The theme of this memoir is man's inhumanity to man. The cruel events that occurred to Elie and others during the Holocaust turned families and others against each other as they struggled to survive Hitler's and the Nazi Army’s inhumane treatment.
The injustices and positively atrocious treatment of Elie and the other Jews became a clear corollary to Elie’s understanding of justice. His knowledge, as the author and protagonist, shapes the entire basis of his memoir Night. As Elie worked to survive Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Burma his view of justice changed the perspective he had on life. This understanding and viewpoint influences a reader’s comprehension and analyzation of Night. As Elie matures, his concept of justice and his understanding of the lack of equity shown by Hitler and the Nazi leaders towards the Jews matures greatly, causing him successfully to find the injustice in the concentration camps.
... an important event in any Jewish child’s life, and which, also, makes it interesting for us.
One of the many themes that has arose is the theme of injustice. The theme of injustice stood out just by reading the back of the book. As stated before, this book takes place in the time of Hitler’s reign in Nazi Germany. If anyone had previous knowledge as to what Adolf Hitler’s “final solution” entitled, social injustice would evidently be pointed out. These prejudices could be something such as concentration camps, torture, discrimination of the Jewish race and the destruction of homes and shops. Although many Germans had no idea what was happening in Germany during Hitler’s reign, one would be quick to judge Germans as a whole. This is the perspective that is dominant in the novel, they never mention massacre or concentration camps, and they just lived their normal lives. After the author educates the reader about a Jewish man named Max Vandenburg, the narrator says: “You could argue that Liesel Meminger had it easy. She did have it easy compared to Max Vandenburg. Certainly, her brother practically died in her arms. Her mother abandoned her. But anything was better than being a Jew” (Zusak 161). This quote by itself shows how terribly the Jewish people were treated. In their daily lives, they are faced with destruction, social injustice, and discrimination. They are treated very disrespectfully; they live with racial slurs, house raids, as well as having the Star of David painted on
This marked the beginning of the Palestine armed conflict, one of its kinds to be witnessed in centuries since the fall of the Ottoman Empire and World War 1. Characterized by a chronology of endless confrontations, this conflict has since affected not only the Middle East relations, but also the gl...
But, as Sandy Tolan 's book, The Lemon Tree, seeks to explain, through Dalia’s longing for zion and Bashir’s belief in the arab right of return, that the main catalyst of the Arab-Israeli conflict is
Bourke, Dale Hanson. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Tough Questions, Direct Answers. Downers Grove, IL: Inter Varsity, 2013. N. pag. Print.
In this part of the speech, General Douglas MacArthur uses parallelism to arise a dramatically strong feeling from the audience. With Parallelism, he can effectively emphasize his point and to make them more memorable as he go through his speech. To let people to understand how much the soldiers had devoted their life to their loving country and to give tribute to the great American soldiers.
In the book by Elie Wiesel, the young Elie Wiesel describes his life in the concentration camps. The injustice he faces was anti semitism, on the extreme side. Many of the sighet jews who “not only refused to believe his tales, they
Regine Donner, a famous Holocaust survivor, once said, “I had to keep my Jewishness hidden, secret, and never to be revealed on penalty of death. I missed out on my childhood and the best of my adolescent years. I was robbed of my name, my religion, and my Zionist idealism” (“Hidden Children”). Jewish children went through a lot throughout the Holocaust- physically, mentally, and emotionally. Life was frightening and difficult for children who were in hiding during the rule of Adolf Hitler.
Many racial and ethnic groups are treated cruel, which contributes to the problem of discrimination. The inhumane treatment inflicted onto different racial and ethnic groups is provoking horrific violence around the world. The film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, gives us an insight to the cruel treatment endured by Jewish people in World War II. Jewish people were taken from their homes, separated from their families, and placed in concentration camps where they were expected to die. They were exposed to extreme levels of abuse, such as starvation, physical beatings, and emotional torture. The fear and terrorizing the soldiers used on the Jews is shown in the scene when Lieutenant Kotler catches Shmuel eating a cookie: “Are you eating? Have you been stealing food?