The Theme of Friendship in The Enemy Above and My Friend The Enemy

The Theme of Friendship in The Enemy Above and 

 My Friend The Enemy

War is bad. It tears families apart and kills many people. World War II was a very bad war and over 6,000000 people were killed. The main reason for the war was the Holocaust. The Holocaust was when many Jews were killed. In both, The Enemy Above and My Friend the Enemy the main characters lived in the time of the Holocaust. The theme of friendship is shown in both books. This is important to move the plot of the story.

In The Enemy Above the reader learns how friends can rely on each other in the face of danger. When Daniel and Anton are sent down the cave tunnels to find a different way out, Anton gets trapped under rocks. He tells Daniel to get other friends to help him get out. Together they help Anton out. The same theme is seen in My Friend the Enemy. When Peter and Kim are in the plane to get souvenirs, there are guards beside the plane. The friends have to devise a plan to get out of the plane. This is important to the theme because it shows how friends can work together when danger is nearby. 

In My Friend The Enemy the readers find out that sometimes family and friends choose to sacrifice their well being to protect others. The author shares this lesson when Eric, a German pilot, shoots a gun into the air to protect Peter and to frighten the bullies. Eric is captured and put into a camp. That sacrifice is true friendship. In The Enemy Above the same lesson is shared when Anton is about to die and Bubbe sacrifices her life. This is important to the theme because it shows how a family can sacrifice when in danger.  

The theme of friendship is important in both books. There are many types of friendships shown in both books. The Holocaust was a big part of the books and World War II. The war was bad and the Jews were killed. The starter of all this was Adolf Hitler. He inspired all of the war. There should be no war. War is bad.

Animal Farm

Even from the start, Napoleon was a well-known pig. He even had “a reputation for getting his own way” (Orwell 9). You can see that he keeps this habit as he grows older. Once Snowball becomes a leader with a great idea, Napoleon forcefully steals his place, becoming the only leader. He trained dogs to chase Snowball out of the Farm. Napoleon wanted to rule. Still, Napoleon killed the animals that still supported Napoleon. He even changed the seven Commandments which made up the animal’s lives.

Napoleon changed the 7 commandments whenever he wanted. Commandment 4 was, “No animal shall sleep in beds.” Napoleon let the pigs sleep in beds because it was comfortable. Commandment 6 was, “No animal shall kill any other animal.” Still, Napoleon killed the animals that still supported Snowball because he wanted to have no traitors. Commandment 5 was, “No animal shall drink alcohol.” Napoleon shared alcohol with the pigs.

Animal Farm is a political satire, where Napoleon has complete control over Animal Farm and Joseph Stalin has complete control over Russia. Orwell wants to convey that Communism often leads to problems. A satire contains a message about world politics. In a satire, the author attacks a serious issue by presenting it in a ridiculous light or otherwise poking fun at it. George Orwell points out the folly of mankind by using certain animals and therefore certain animal traits, often unflattering, to represent the animalistic behavior of men. For example, how Mr. Jones treats the animals. Napoleon was Joseph Stalin and Snowball was Leon Trotsky. Old Major was Karl Marx. Squealer was Stalin’s news agency. Pilkington was Great Britain and Frederick was Germany.

Edgar Allan Poe: Conflict Leads to Deception

Conflict Inspires Deception-Edgar Allan Poe

Conflict inspires deception. To avoid or eliminate conflict, people lie, steal, and cheat. Sometimes their deception leads to greater conflict, however. In many cases, there might be a situation where it is necessary for someone has to deceive another. In some of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories, conflict is a great cause of deception. Poe experienced turmoil and deceit in his life and might have been in many great conflicts as well. In his stories, the conflict between the two main characters often causes someone to deceive and kill another character. Two of Poe’s stories, “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “Hop Frog or the Eight Chained Orangutans”, both deal with deception, but they do so in different ways.
Both stories possess different conflicts that inspire deception. Hop Frog deceives the king and his seven ministers. Hop Frog came with a girl named Trippetta. The King throws a cup of wine in her face and Hop Frog became very mad. This is where Hop Frog made his plan of deceiving the King. The King’s generals brought them to the king as presents. They made Hop Frog a jester. They also made fun of him. This makes it clear when the narrator says, “His walk alone could make the king laugh, and Hop-Frog was constantly made fun of”(5). He was teased by everyone. When the King threw wine at Trippetta’s face, it makes Hop Frog even more furious. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the old man’s eye makes the speaker insane. The old man didn’t do anything to provoke him but, the eye freaked him out. The narrator says, “He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold”(2). The narrator deceives the old man, even though only his “vulture eye” was troubling him. Each main character deceives and murders someone for different reasons. The King had incited the conflict. If he had not thrown the wine in Trippetta’s face, he wouldn’t have been deceived and killed. The old man didn’t deserve to be killed. It was not his fault he had that kind of eye. Hop Frog had faced a man vs. man conflict. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrator was facing a man vs. man and man vs. nature.
The main characters are deceitful in different ways. Hop Frog tricks the King and his ministers. They want a costume for the masquerade ball. Hop Frog comes up with an idea. The King and his ministers will go as orangutans to the ball. Everyone gets scared. Hop Frog examines the King and his ministers and then burns them to death. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the main character lies and hides from the old man. He observes his eye for nights and then finally kills him. In paragraph 10 and 16 a new conflict arises: the man’s heartbeat. This becomes clear when “My head ached, and I fancied a ringing in my ears”. The narrator doesn’t realize that it is the old man’s heartbeat. He also deceives the police and lies to them saying nothing happened. His confidence clear when he says, “I smiled--for what had I to fear?”(Poe 15). Then he hears the heartbeat and thinks the police hear it, too. He gets scared and then tells the truth, deceiving himself.
Poe can easily convey the message of deception for, he has been in many situations involving this. Poe deceived his foster-father when he rejected the idea of Poe becoming a writer. He wanted him to be a businessman. Poe ran off though, and went to a writing school. Poe probably wrote “Hop Frog or the Eight Chained Orangutans” because he had those horrible feelings about his foster-father,  just like Hop Frog thought that the King was an evil man and deserved to die. In the end, Poe ran off to writing school and Hop Frog ran back to his own country.
Deception is produced by conflict. Hop Frog’s friend is bullied and so he deceives the King. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the old man’s eye scares the narrator. That is why the narrator deceived the old man. There were two different types of conflict in “The Tell-Tale Heart”. One was man vs. man and the other was, man vs. nature. In “Hop Frog or the Eight Chained Orangutans” the main character faced the conflict, man vs. man. Both stories ended differently. Hop Frog got away from his crime and the police had arrested the narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart”. It’s a universal truth that conflict can lead to deception, either for the good or bad. Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s stories, it can be very dangerous. The King’s arrogance led to his death, and the man’s eye led to the same fate, as well.