This is part of your Night final. This is an analytical essay so you MUST cite the text! Meaning for sentences # 4,7, and 10,
you will need to find a quote from the book that supports the point you're making.
You will need to write a thirteen-sentence essay in response to the
following: How can culture and faith shape a person's identity? Select recurring
images and symbols from the text that explain how Ellie's identify is
impacted by his family, his faith, and the culture of the Holocaust.

which is a characteristic of dramatic point of view? it allows the audience to get deep inside a character's head. it often uses the pronouns i and me. it more easily allows the audience to make up their own minds about characters.

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themes and meanings

(comprehensive guide to drama)

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”

this is the sentence that best shows that fast food restaurants are designed for using unskilled labor.