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Written in 1916, during his training as a World War I soldier, Edward Thomas's "Rain" contemplates the solitude of life and the inevitability of death. The poem's speaker lies awake and alone at night, listening to a "wild rain" outside.
Night is narrated by Eliezer, a Jewish teenager who, when the memoir begins, lives in his hometown of Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. Eliezer studies the Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament) and the Kabbalah (a doctrine of Jewish mysticism).
Summary ‘Rain’ by Edward Thomas describes a speaker’s relationship with death as he contemplates the future within the trenches of World War I. The poem begins with the speaker stating that there is a constant stream of rain pounding down on the roof of his “bleak hut.” His conditions are not good.
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It’s More Than Just Rain or Snow. Foster discusses how weather in a text has vast symbolic resonances. Rain, for example, often evokes the story of Noah and primal fears of drowning. It can also contribute to the atmosphere and mood of a text, evoking mysteriousness, murkiness, and loneliness.
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François Mauriac recounts his interview with Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor who wrote this compelling and powerful memoir about his time at Auschwitz. Read a full Summary & Analysis of the Foreward
After the Hungarian government falls to the Fascists in 1944, Eliezer Wiesel and his family, along with the remaining Jews in Sighet, are herded away to Auschwitz, a concentration camp. Read a full Summary & Analysis of Section 1
The conditions on the train to Auschwitz are so unbearable that Madame Schächter begins screaming and wailing, only to be beaten into silence by her fellow passengers. Upon arriving at Birkenau, the processing station for Auschwitz, the passengers realize that the noxious odor they smell is that of human flesh. Read a full Summary & Analysis of Sec...
Eliezer and his father are separated from his mother and sister during a “selection,” a process where individuals are weeded out to be killed. Eliezer and his father lie about their ages and are sent to the barracks where they are gowned in prisoner clothing and told that either they work, or they die. Later, a train arrives to take them to Buna wh...
Eliezer avoids having his gold tooth removed. Idek, a Kapo in charge of Eliezer’s work crew, beats Eliezer with no provocation. The narrator goes on to relate a story of the French girl Eliezer ran into years later who consoled Eliezer after the beating. After a prisoner attempts and fails to eat soup during an air raid, the Nazis set up gallows to...
During the Jewish High Holidays, Eliezer questions his faith and religion in general. His father somehow survives another selection. Suffering the brutal effects of winter, Eliezer has surgery on his foot and the camp is evacuated. Read a full Summary & Analysis of Section 5
Eliezer and his father arrive at the Gleiwitz Camp, where Eliezer’s father survives another selection. Eliezer, his father, and the other prisoners travel through German towns for ten days without being fed and are harassed by German citizens who take joy in watching the Jewish prisoners suffer. The train eventually arrives at Buchenwald, where onl...
The journey to Buchenwald thoroughly depletes and eventually kills Eliezer’s father, relieving an ashamed Eliezer. On April 10th, right before the Nazis can annihilate the remaining Jews, the Americans arrive and free the prisoners at Buchenwald. Eliezer views himself in a mirror for the first time since leaving Sighet and is surprised by how much ...
The speaker, who is awakened by the rain, compares the sound of raindrops falling to various fruits and beads, and describes the way the water runs through their roof and onto the floor. The poem also captures the feeling of peace and contentment that comes from listening to the rain fall.
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A Night Full of Rain. A Night Full of Rain (Italian: La fine del mondo nel nostro solito letto in una notte piena di pioggia; literal English translation: The end of the world in our usual bed on a night full of rain) is a 1978 Italian American film directed by Lina Wertmüller and stars Candice Bergen and Giancarlo Giannini. [1]
