“I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival,” said Audre Lorde.“Thematically, she expresses or explores pride, love, anger, fear, racial and sexual oppression, urban neglect, and personal survival. ” She has a similar story to Elie Wiesel and Paul Rusesabagina. They all faced an act of hatred that caused damage to another person. This lead onto a contemplative situation where you could’ve died. In “Night “(Elie Wiesel), “An ordinary man”(Paul Rusesabagina), and in the article “Is survival selfish” they prove to show 3 main keys to survival. They are shown as will, words, and accepting reality.
Having a will to live is one of the main key points towards survival due to the fact …show more content…
This may lead onto a catastrophic event or either lead to living for another day ,and it all depends on how you use them. In an ordinary man, Paul says that “I used words in many ways during the genocide-to plead, intimidating, coax, cajole, and negotiate. I was slippery and evasive when I needed to be. I acted friendly toward despicable people”(Rusesabagina). Paul used words to save himself and other people by using it into deceiving and bribing people, which lead into voluminous people surviving due to how he used it. A path to survival is by comfort, such as “Bite your lips, little brother...Don’t cry.keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later, the day will come but not now… Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.”(Weisel 53) These words stopped Elie from doing something preposterous such as talking back to the kapo which would result to a beating. A key point of survival is advice such as “Before you go into the next room, try to move your limbs, give yourself more color. Don’t walk slowly, run! Run as if you had the devil at your heels! Don’t look at the SS. Run, straight in front of you.”(Weisel 71) This allowed Elie to survive because it was a warning for a decision made by other people to see if you’re suitable enough to live or die in the horrendous death camps. All 3 of these quotes shows that words can be helpful during dangerous events and if you use them wisely it will allow you to live …show more content…
In the air, the smell of burning flesh. It must have been around midnight. We had arrived. In Birkenau.”(Weisel 28) This confirms that everything that Mrs. Schachter had been telling them this whole entire time was true and he should have believed her rather than pretending everything was going to be fine. At the time when Paul was watching his neighbourhood and quoted”Watching this happen in my own neighborhood was like looking up at a blue summer sky and seeing it suddenly turning purple.”(Rusesabagina) He realized that all of this is true and the whole entire world “had gone mad”,but this allows him to see what is truly is going on. During the time Lane Wallace says “My friend and I walked quickly and calmly outside, but to get any further, we had to push our way through a crowd of people who were staring, transfixed, at the column of smoke rising from the front of the station. ”(Wallace) Lance Wallace shows that accepting the fact that a disaster has occurred helped him and allowed him to sedatley escape the terrorist attack. In conclusion, accepting reality allows people to the real thing and take note of what's going on to survive off of what’s
Having a will to live is one of the main key points towards survival due to the fact …show more content…
This may lead onto a catastrophic event or either lead to living for another day ,and it all depends on how you use them. In an ordinary man, Paul says that “I used words in many ways during the genocide-to plead, intimidating, coax, cajole, and negotiate. I was slippery and evasive when I needed to be. I acted friendly toward despicable people”(Rusesabagina). Paul used words to save himself and other people by using it into deceiving and bribing people, which lead into voluminous people surviving due to how he used it. A path to survival is by comfort, such as “Bite your lips, little brother...Don’t cry.keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later, the day will come but not now… Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.”(Weisel 53) These words stopped Elie from doing something preposterous such as talking back to the kapo which would result to a beating. A key point of survival is advice such as “Before you go into the next room, try to move your limbs, give yourself more color. Don’t walk slowly, run! Run as if you had the devil at your heels! Don’t look at the SS. Run, straight in front of you.”(Weisel 71) This allowed Elie to survive because it was a warning for a decision made by other people to see if you’re suitable enough to live or die in the horrendous death camps. All 3 of these quotes shows that words can be helpful during dangerous events and if you use them wisely it will allow you to live …show more content…
In the air, the smell of burning flesh. It must have been around midnight. We had arrived. In Birkenau.”(Weisel 28) This confirms that everything that Mrs. Schachter had been telling them this whole entire time was true and he should have believed her rather than pretending everything was going to be fine. At the time when Paul was watching his neighbourhood and quoted”Watching this happen in my own neighborhood was like looking up at a blue summer sky and seeing it suddenly turning purple.”(Rusesabagina) He realized that all of this is true and the whole entire world “had gone mad”,but this allows him to see what is truly is going on. During the time Lane Wallace says “My friend and I walked quickly and calmly outside, but to get any further, we had to push our way through a crowd of people who were staring, transfixed, at the column of smoke rising from the front of the station. ”(Wallace) Lance Wallace shows that accepting the fact that a disaster has occurred helped him and allowed him to sedatley escape the terrorist attack. In conclusion, accepting reality allows people to the real thing and take note of what's going on to survive off of what’s