...This quote really stood out to me because of the context surrounding this quote in my book. My book is about an Italian boy named Pino that was sent to a catholic camp because his family thought he would be safer away from Italy after the recent bombings, while at the camp Pino helps jewish people escape to Switzerland. My quote occured right after Father Re, the priest at the catholic camp Pino was sent to, was accused of helping jewish people escape to Switzerland by the German Gestapo colonel. I thought that is was one of the most courageous things I’ve ever hear of someone doing, he told the colonel that he would help anyone that needed helping even the jewish people. He told him this even though he knew that he could be punished even for...
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...Appearance vs. Reality In the novel Night (1956), Elie Wiesel illustrates the horror that he faces through the Holocaust. Wiesel’s drive to get out of the concentration camp with his father alive causes him to be directed through all of these challenges. When it seems that everything is lost time after time again, he starts to lose himself and his humanity. Wiesel’s detailed descriptions of the Jews denying their inevitable truth that had shown right in front of them is also later shown that not only did the Jewish community, not face their own reality, however Elie Wiesel finds it hard to face his reality through this tough time. The play Oedipus Rex (420) by (Sophocles) also demonstrates the tragedy of how sensitive our mentality can...
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...In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, Elie describes his experiences during the Holocaust. He expressively shares his horrifying experiences and suffering as a Jew. Along all of this, Elie has to deal with his losing faith with his god. The theme of Elie Wiesel’s “Night” is about loss of faith. The book quickly starts up by showing Elie’s religious status. The introduction shows that Wiesel is religious and prays oftenly. When Elie and his father arrives at the concentration camp, Wiesel questions God on how such a place could exist. He struggles mentally and physically during his time in the camp. He was treated cruelly and inhumane. Later on in his experience in camp, the Jews forget about friends and family and start focusing on self survival. God...
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...effective devices that express the message in a very clear and meaningful way. Two of the ways Elie Wiesel conveys his message to the reader is through his diction as well as his tone throughout the novel, Night. The diction throughout Elie Wiesel's memoir Night is very descriptive and vivid. Diction keeps the reader interested, but also helps them clearly understand the situation or environment: “Suffering from dysentery, my father was prostrate on his cot, with another five sick inmates nearby” (Wiesel 108). In this quote, the use of the word “prostrate” helps the reader clearly imagine how his father is lying on the cot, face down and dying...
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...Can literature help us remember the past? Night, Perils of Indifference, and Acceptance Speech all have things in common. They can connect to different themes and they connect to one another. Literature has a big part in this world and it helps us remember past events, just like the Holocaust. In Elie Wiesel’s Acceptance Speech he says, “Who would allow such crime to be committed? How could the world remain silent?” This kinda ties back to theme 3 - breaking the silence on cruel acts is a way to break the cycle of repetition. He’s asking why would the world remain silent? He wanted people to break the silence when the crime was being committed. In this speech it also says “one person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death.” And this kinda connects to the prompt because it’s saying that you,...
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...Would you ignore if six million people were assassinated? The historical background of Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, has experienced such a significant event. Wiesel is an Auschwitz survivor and his memoir, Night, reflects the society and the beliefs of its time. A controversy about this work is that some people believe the Holocaust never happened and as a result regard the book as false. However, this novel was important at the time it was written, because it was a time when people didn‘t believe in the Holocaust. In addition, Elie Wiesel’s background is essential to the Holocaust’s memory, because it deals with the Nazi’s genocide. The author of Night, who is also the protagonist of the book, shows how delusion and rumors spread false hopes and lies throughout the camp. The author also showed how Hitler’s belief that other races were inferior and didn’t deserve to live led to Hitler’ rise to power. Wiesel’s story is crucial to that time-period since it shows his perseverance through multiple concentration camps and the loss of close family members....
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...In reference to his experience during the Holocaust and why he wrote night, author Elie Wiesel says without the experience he would have not become "… A witness who believes he has a moral obligation to try to prevent the enemy from enjoying one last victory by allowing his crimes to be erased from human memory" (Wiesel ). The Holocaust is a memorable event that occurred in Germany and Eastern Europe in 1933 threw 1945. This tragedy was runned by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party, killing a massive amount of Jews, homosexuals, Catholics, poles, and gypsies. Hitler strongly believed that the Jews were responsible for economic struggles also known as the great depression. Many people also believed they were to blame for the loss of war. In the...
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...Elie Wiesel’s Night illustrates through the use of anaphora and simile to allow the reader to see how men who fail to attain even a respite are much more likely to relinquish their religion. Elie himself develops to find his god erroneous whilst endeavoring to keeping his body and soul through excessive work and little food in a Nazi concentration camp, and begins to loathe his omniscient being, whom punishes Elie at his leisure. When people are faced with an incredibly gruesome scene, they tend to be traumatized by it, which may lead to effects on their psyche. This change in conduct may alter the way they perceive the world around them, including their religion. In Night, Elie is faced with the scene of babies burning, and feels: “[colon Quote Related To”Never Shall I Forget Anaphora]”(Wiesel __). This is Elie traumatized by the melting children and the acrid scent, knowing that he would be a part of it all too soon. It is seen later on that when “[Sentence Flow Quote Related To His Father Being Beaten]”(Wiesel __), which shows how Elie has been desensitized to the anguish of other people, even the ones as close as family. Trauma on this caliber...
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...Night by Elie Wiesel describes his experiences as a Jew in the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Wiesel and other Jews survived, but many others did not. One of the key components to the Jews’ survival was faith and hope. Stein of Antwerp was one of the Jews that died because he lost his hope. He had known Wiesel and his family by his mother. Wiesel’s mother had written many letters to Stein and his wife Reizel. Stein had said “I was deported in 1942. I heard that a transport had come in from your region, and I came to find you. I thought perhaps you might have news of Reizel and my little boys. They stayed behind in Antwerp. . . .” (Wiesel 40) Although Wiesel knew nothing about them, he lied and said “Yes, my mother’s had...
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...“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.” (34) After reading Elie Wiesel’s account of the Holocaust in his book Night and watching the movie Life is Beautiful, directed by Roberto Benigni, I determined that, the book, Night has the greatest impact on the reader. Based on the mood and tone of the two stories, the amount of details, and the main characters of the stories, I believe that Wiesel’s account of the Holocaust leaves the reader more impacted than Benigni’s story of the same event. In Elie Wiesel’s literary memoir Night, which he wrote in the nineteen-fifties, after his ten years of vowed silence in respect for those who lost their lives in the Holocaust, Wiesel...
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...Wiesel’s Changes of Faith The Holocaust brought about many hardships and created severe adversity for its victims that may have created experiences ultimately too traumatic that transformed their lives for years to come, either through starvation and labor in the concentration camps or execution and incineration in the extermination camps. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel tells the story of himself as a young Jewish boy born in Romania, who in 1944, was forced into ghettos with the rest of the Jewish citizens and later deported, along with his father, to the Nazi’s largest killing center, Auschwitz-Birkenau. While living through this day-to-day horrifying basis, Elie begins to live with overwhelming fear and total alienation, as well as his increasing loss of faith on God and whether God is even existent or not for His lack of participation in trying to help the Jews. Although Elie manages to survive his long and frightening journey through both labor and death camps, his faith was never at the high-most air-reaching level as it dramatically changed throughout the course of the novel because of his disturbing experiences in witnessing cremated human beings, executions, and the going through the loss of his entire family. Prior to being deported to the camps, Elie’s faith was extremely high as he was well-established with his studies in mysticism and the cabbala and his great involvement with religion through prayers. Elie is finding a great interest in wanting to...
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...In Elie Wiesel’s Memoir “Night” Elie and his family are taken from their home in Sighet and transferred to the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp. In this story Elie retells us about his challenging journey. From being separated from his mother and sister, to watching his father and his friends die a slow and painful death inside the camp. Throughout Elie’s time at Auschwitz he begins telling the reader about what he sees. We then begin to learn that overtime the prisoners begin to harm each other, only caring about her survival. As the story begins and Elie’s family is being transported, Ellie noticed that everyone was on edge! A family friend by the name of Madame Schachter began to hallucinate, claiming that she saw a fire...
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...1 Symbolic Interaction, Functional Analysis, and Conflict Theory of Elie Wiesels’s Night Introduction 2 Symbolic Interaction, Functional Analysis, and Conflict Theory of Elie Wiesels’s “Night” Elie Wiesel’s Night begins in Sighet, Transylvania, 1941 when he was a teenager. He begins talking about a life before his world, along with his family, was torn apart. His family was Jewish, and he wanted to study Cabbala. He was very much involved in his faith and wanted to further pursue it by studying Cabbala, but his father would not let him. “There are no Cabbalists in Sighet.” (pg 4). He was very close with his shtibl, Moishe the Beadle, who later was taken by Hungarian Police and expelled from Sighet because he was a foreign Jew. Once they were taken over by the Gestapo, the babies were used as target practice and the adults were shot. Moishe managed to escape because he was shot in his leg and was able to get back to Sighet to tell Elie what happened. He also tried to tell everyone in town what had happened to him and the rest of the foreign Jews, but no one believed him and he was branded insane. 1944 was when the town of Sighet was split into two ghettos, and no one could leave the town. Shortly after that, the Hungarian police told everyone in town to turn in their valuables (gold, jewelry, etc.) because they were going to the first concentration camp, Auschwitz. This is where Elie and his father were separated from his mother and sisters, and never heard from or...
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...physically, mentally, and emotionally. The book titled Night by Elie Wiesel is a strong representation of this. The book details the attitude of the people running the camp, the circumstances that could make one give up on religious faith, and the growth of frustration and overall sadness. Being a prisoner at a Nazi camp was one of the worst experiences imaginable. When Elie arrives he is quickly given an obvious message that his time here will not be very pleasant. "Remember it always, let it be graven in your memories. You are in Auschwitz. And Auschwitz is not a convalescent home. It is a concentration camp. Here, you must work. If you don't you will go straight to the chimney. To the crematorium. Work or crematorium—the choice is yours” (29). This quote clearly illustrates the intentions of the camp higher-ups. At this place, Mr.Wiesel and his fellow prisoners were not perceived as a people, but rather slaves and animals used for Nazi agenda development. Anyone that protested for their basic human...
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...event had. Elie Wiesel -- now a Nobel-Prize winning author, humanities professor, and Judaic studies professor at schools such as NYU, Boston University, and City University. Wiesel resided in Romania during the Holocaust and was sent to Auschwitz in Poland. Luckily, he and two of his sisters survived this traumatic experience, but, they will forever have the malicious, knavish, and despicable memories forever. Holden Caulfield, the main character of The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, does not reveal much information about...
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