Night+pre-write+sample

O'Connor Pre-Write Sample

1. Soul/passion Juliek violin symbolizes his idenity/soul

The author chooses to use symbolism here so I can connect in the idea that we all live for something.

""When I awoke at daybreak, I saw Juliek facing me, hunched over, dead. Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse." (Wiesel 95)

Symbolism helps us to connect to ideas we are not directly involved in. For example, in Night, Eli Wiesel, uses the Juliek and his violin to help us "see" soul. "When I awoke at daybreak, I saw...." Wiesel decides to have us wonder if Juliek actually died first or if his violin did. This brings us to the question of can we survive without a soul because the violin represents Juliek's soul. Another example where symbolism helps us to understand the power of our identity and our souls was when the Eli was tatooed with his number. The tatoo represents the shell of who he is while is actual name represents his essences, his soul. When his name is called out through out various places in the book, they are only calling for his body, not his true self. We are our souls and our passions, while people can attempt to strip us of these, they can not take them without our concent.

2.self discipline Lambs and the couldrons : Look up page for direct quote. Even though food was readily avalable and tempting, Eli needed to show self discipline in order to survive.