Unit+8+Night

=//Modern to Contemporary Literature: An Examination of Themes in World Literature//= =//Essential Questions for Night by Elie Wiesel//=
 * Why is it important for people like Elie Wiesel to write a personal narrative about harrowing experiences in history? Why do we need to read it, experience it through reading?
 * How does the author’s belief system and worldview affect their view and final assessment of terrible injustice and tragedy in history?
 * What occurs when someone with a worldview of disorder is allowed to implement and bring that worldview to its end?
 * What happens when people stand by and allow evil to win the moment, day, year, era?
 * Where is God in the midst of such tragedy and governmental murderous villainy?
 * What does the experience of evil in history reveal about us as humans? What does the survival of the experiences of evil reveal about us as humans?

Materials for Memoir assignment...

[|Extraordinary Lives] [|Link to submitted memoir essays]

Materials for Night...

[|Discussion and Ideas for Elie's Spiritual Struggle Prezi]

=Essential Questions for The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis=
 * Why do we often think of Heaven-Earth-Hell in a top-to-bottom visual? Are there other ideas as to where Hell is located?
 * How do C.S. Lewis’s ideas of the content and experience of Hell differ from Dante’s and how does it apply to the modern reader?
 * What are the reasons why people choose not to accept eternal salvation through Jesus Christ and opt for a life course that does not lead to Heaven?
 * What are the consequences of sin?
 * How do people become “shades” or shadows of themselves when they choose actions of disorder and that which God is not a part of?
 * Why do we have such deluded senses? Why do we have such a deluded sense of self?
 * What does divorce mean? What are the implications and consequences for the soul that chooses to “divorce” God?
 * What are the lies and myths that surround our notions of the action of divorce?
 * According to Lewis, how might a soul be restored from the fragmenting power and consequence of sin?

Materials for TGD...

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