Do You Have A Voice :: essays research papers

Would you just stand by, as Nazis soldiers kidnapped your neighbors just because they were different? If you would, you need no articulate and you need to take one. Many people had neighbors who were taken away and killed by the Nazis. They just stood there, let it happen and did not utter a word. In the book, Adventures of huckabackleberry Finn, written by, fit Twain, it shows the development of a young boy, and he does develop a voice. The main character, Huckleberry Finn, is a duster, southern boy expected to believe in what everyone else believes in. He does not want to be like everyone else and he changes. If you develop, or moderate a voice, you can make a difference.During the chronicle, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck plays a travesty on Jim. Jim is Huck&8217s runaway slave friend. So, as the story goes, Huck plays a trick on Jim and Jim thinks that Huck is dead. When Jim finally realizes that Huck is not dead, he gets really angry at Huck. Jim says, &8220 Da t hand truck dah is trash en trash is what people is dat puts crap on de head er dey fren&8217s em makes &8216em ashamed. That line, from the story, is essentially saying that Huck is trash for doing that to Jim. Then fifteen minutes afterwards Huck goes into Jim&8217s wigwam and justifys. This is showing that Huck does have a voice because any other white person from the south would not apologize to a slave. The slaves were thought of as being lower than any white person and Huck was showing that a slave as equalise to him or even better than him because he went and apologized to Jim. By doing this Huck was different and developed a voice because if he had no voice he would have gotten angry with Jim for calling him trash and Huck would not have apologized.The article, that accompanied my writing assignment, is about a man named Elie Wiesel. Wiesel is a final solution survivor, he is an author, has won the Noble Peace Prize, and most important of all, Wiesel has a voice. Egil Aarvik, chairman of the Norwegian Noble Committee, said, &8220Wiesel&8217s mission is not to run into the world&8217s sympathy for the victims or the survivors. His aim is to awaken our conscience. With Wiesel&8217s focus on getting us to realize what happened during the Holocaust, he has make a voice for himself.