The Human Experience In Elie Wiesel's 'Night'

Literature is like a gateway into the human experience, readers can learn more and relate to novels, memoirs, short stories, etc. Authors can transport readers into different times and places that allow the reader to develop a broader understanding of the topic being displayed. Literature can help allow readers to discover the thoughts, emotions, and experiences of others. Voice and perspective can help shape one’s understanding of the human experience in literature through themes of survival, arrogance, and regret. Voice and perspective can help shape one’s understanding of the human experience in literature through survival. In Night by Elie Weisel, Weisel is a young Jewish boy who grew up during the Holocaust, his perspective is shared

In the text Dead Man’s Path by Chinua Achebe, a school principal runs into conflict with an older village, a path runs along through school grounds to a burial site, and occasionally townspeople walkthrough. “Dead men do not require footpaths. The whole idea is just fantastic. Our duty is to teach children to laugh at such ideas” (Achebe 21). The use of irony when he says “The whole idea is just fantastic” and how he says his duty is to “teach children to laugh at such ideas” represents his inconsideration and arrogance in the path situation. Similarly to Dead Man’s Path by Chinua Achebe, and Interlopers by Saki, the theme of arrogance is shown through the rivalry between two families who will do anything to win. “Caught fast. Ho, what a jest, Ulrich Von Gradwitz snared in his stolen forest. There’s real justice for you… And he laughed again, mockingly and savagely” (Saki 7). The diction “mockingly” and “jest” gives the reader an understanding of the intentional language used to show his arrogance. A school principal selfishly putting his school over the village's needs and the family rivalry of Georg and Ulrich both convey the theme of arrogance with the author's use of diction and irony along with perspective which gives the reader a better

In The Bet by Anton Chekhov, two men, one a banker and the other a lawyer, an argument strikes them about what is worse, the death penalty or life imprisonment. The lawyer says it is better to live than not at all, so the banker bets him he couldn’t stay there for 15 years. The lawyer leaves a note just before the 15 years is up and the banker reads it. “At no other time, even when he had lost heavily on the stock exchange, had he felt so great a contempt for himself, when he got home he lay on his bed, but his tears and emotion kept him hours from sleeping” (Chekhov 38). In the letter contained how the banker was right but had ruined the lawyer's life, the banker feels great regret as shown with the diction “contempt” and describes how he was crying for hours. Similarly to The Bet by Anton Chekhov, and The Seventh man by Haruki Murakami, the theme of regret is shown through a character’s mistake in his youth that continues to haunt him for the rest of his life. “As I said before, though, overcome with fear, I abandoned him there and saved only myself. It pained me all the more that K.’s parents failed to blame me and that everyone else was so careful never to say anything to me about what had happened. It took me a long time to recover from the emotional shock” (Murakami 41). The use of diction with “abandoned”,