finals Flashcards
(29 cards)
night setting
sighet transylvania
night protagonist
ellie
night antagonist
nazis
night conflict
The innocent Jews are harshly and unfairly treated by the severe, “evil” Nazis, acting out of Antisemitism, and Elie Wiesel is a teenager who witnesses the Nazis’ acts of sheer brutality and clear immorality.
night resolution
buchenwald is liberated. ellie goes to hospital. no jews want revenge
night theme statement
When a Jewish boy is put through the holocaust, hunger will be the most important thing
night theme examples
train bread
rations to dad
snow and bread
tkam setting
maycomb alabama 1930s
tkam protagonist
scout atticus and jem
tkam antagonist
bob ewell representing racisms
tkam conflict
Scout Finch, an innocent young girl, is exposed to the evils of racism in the South during the Great Depression, causing her to be involved in serious, mature situations dealing with the sheer harshness of racism, like Tom Robinson, and her loss of innocence.
tkam resolution
tom dies. bob attacks kids but shanked. scout learns stepping in others shoes
tkam theme statement
When a young southern girl experiences racism and prejudice in her own local community, she realizes that people are not always who they seem to be.
tkam theme 3 examples
dolphus raymond
boo
bob
antigone setting
400 BC thebes greece
antigone protagonist
antigone
antigone antagonist
creon
antigone conflict
Antigone, in her love for her dead brother, Polyneices, wants a proper burial to respect the dead Polyneices, but King Creon, because of Polyneices’s “betrayal of the state,” decides to leave Polyneices’s corpse out to rot and be eaten by animals, being shamed.
antigone resolution
Creon loses everything, his son (Haemon), his wife (Eurydice), a future daughter-in-law (Antigone), for not listening to the fate of the gods.
antigone theme statement
When a woman cannot deal with the shame bestowed upon her dead brother, she loves him to the point where that she will defend him even in death.
antigone theme examples
Love (for family)
- Antigone acts out of love when wanting to bury the dead Polyneices, even if it means that she will die for him.
- Haemon, Antigone’s lover, commits suicide, knowing that he cannot live on without the one whom he loves.
oedipus protagonist
oedipus
oedipus antaognist
fate
himself
oedipus setting
thebes ancient greece 400 bc