...Night Essay According to dictionary.com, fear is a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. Fear is an emotion known far too well for the Jews during the holocaust. Nazis have taken over their lives and left them with nothing, but fear. Jews fear for the lives of themselves and their loved ones. Elie Wiesel was a lucky individual that got to escape this fear. His book Night describes the trepidation of physical abuse, the consternation of stolen identity,and the apprehension of the way they are transported. Night has an overall theme of dehumanization. The Nazis take away all of the Jews human qualities in three ways that cause their fear....
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...The book Night is centered in a time period which was highly unfavorable for anyone not of German heritage. Racial unequality and prejudice was thrown enourmously towards the Jews. They were forcefully tossed into concentration camps against their will where they slaved for the sake of their life. In the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel, Eliezers is dehumanized and treated like an animal for being nothing but a young Jewish boy and day by day loses hope of experiencing a better tomorrow. While being held hostage inside the concentration camp walls the aspiration and belief of their lord removing them from misery declines more each and every day. For example, Eliezers explains, "Behind me, I heard the same man asking : 'For God's sake, where is...
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...No Longer Human “Night” Dehumanization, a word that haunts millions during the time of the 1930s. Throughout the Novel Night, written by Elie Wiesel, dehumanization plays a major role. Wiesel portrays much of his story through similes and other forms of literary devices. Dehumanization is the process of stripping a person of every quality that makes him/her human, including his/her identity, individuality, and soul. Throughout the book dehumanization occurs in different situations, some examples are “If anyone goes missing, you will all be shot, like dogs.” (24) “He looked at us as one would a pack of leprous dogs clinging to life.” (38) “He went by me like a shadow, passing me without stopping, without a glance.” (107) These similes are what...
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...Nazi Germany had one major requirement if they wanted to be successful in the extermination the Jewish race: Dehumanization. The belittling of a person and their identity of a person puts an oppressor above the oppressed and sets up a course for action against the oppressed. The Nazis took advantage of this fact, as evident in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. Shaving the heads of the prisoners, the hanging of a child in front of thousands, and the civilians watching the prisoners fight to the death over bread are all prime examples shown by Elie of how dehumanization was used as a tactic in Nazi Germany. One of the first significant acts of dehumanization displayed in Night was the shaving of the heads of the Jewish people when they arrived...
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...recites his story in the book Night, he talks about the inhumane the SS officers and how they endured cruel treatment. Elie also talks about how the SS officers split their family and the torture he endured in the concentration camp Auschwitz. Wiesel uses imagery all throughout the book to emphasize the horrible treatment of the camp. Imagery, a visually descriptive or figurative language plays a big role in describing the scenery and the treatment. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel used imagery to explain how the SS officers treated the prisoners brutally and dehumanized them. When SS officers took Elie and his family to the concentration camp he had to go through the physical and mental torture. The SS officers treated the prisoners less than...
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...In the book Night, the main character Elie Wiesel, endures a traumatizing event that will stay with him forever. It begins when the Gestapo, who the Jews thought were there to save them, arrive at Sighet. Upon their arrival, they quickly acted and moved every Jew into the ghetto. Soon following, Elie and the others woke up to the Gestapo yelling, “All Jews, outside! Hurry!” (Wiesel 63) There they stood for hours, with their belongings, deprived of food and water, waiting to be put into a cattle car. The Jews began to realize that the Germans weren’t out to save them and “from that moment on everything happened very quickly. The race toward death had begun” (Wiesel 52). As Night progresses, the theme of dehumanization, to treat someone like...
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...Dehumanization in Night Dehumanization; the process that made the Jews living during the Holocaust seem less than human. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel writes about his life as a young Jew trying to survive while living in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Throughout his story, multiple examples of dehumanization are shown. Jews begin to lose their rights as citizens. Eventually they are stripped of their identities, and are being treated as if they are nothing but animals. Elie, his father, and the rest of the Jewish people were seen as not being worthy of humane treatment. Millions of Jews were murdered as if they were nothing but objects for the Nazi's to work and starve to death. Following the period of time that the...
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...The book ¨Night¨ by Elie Wiesel is a nonfiction essay about his own personal life during the Holocaust and death march, which he both lived and survived through until his liberation. When the Germans first invaded Romania in 1940 Elie and his Family of his mother, father,and 3 sisters)were living there during that time period. The Germans would go on to persecute and dehumanize the Jewish people along with other groups such as Homosexuals,Gypsies,and the Jehovah’s witnesses. The Germans´ first thing on the agenda to accomplish after invading Romania was to create a separation of the Jewish people into what was referred as ghettos. On Page 11 of Night, the writer gives us a description of the Ghetto they were put into. For instance, Elie comments, ¨Little by little, life returned to ´Normal´ ¨The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with fear.¨ This act shows to the Jewish people that they do not belong to the “normal” part of society and the barbed wire just symbolizes their separation this can really make them question themselves as if people and the religion that they worship. Another example of how Germans showed a separation between the Jewish people and the ¨Other People¨ was on the night of Kristallnacht Nov 9, 1938-Nov 10.The night of Kristallnacht is a night in which Jewish businesses, homes,and places of worship (Synagogues) were vandalized looted and in some cases burnt to the ground....
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...Comparing Beloved and Night The two novels I am writing about are "Night" by Elie Wiesel and "Beloved," by Toni Morrison. Beloved tells about slavery and an ex-slave mother's struggle with a past which is projected as the haunting of her people. It tells the story of Sethe, a mother compelled to kill her child, rather than let the child live a life of slavery. Toni Morrison uses ghosts and the supernatural to create an enhanced acceptance of the human condition and the struggled survival of the Black American. The novel is set in Ohio in the 1880's. The Civil War had been won, slavery had been abolished, however, the memories of slavery still remain. Although the story itself is fictional, the novel is based on real events. The events are based on the trial in Cincinnati of Margaret Garner, who with her husband, and seventeen other slaves (Kentuckian) crossed the Ohio where they supposedly found safe shelter. When it was discovered that they had been pursued and surrounded, and her husband overpowered, Margaret knew that any hope of freedom was in vain. She refused to see her children taken back into slavery. Without delay, Margaret quickly took hold of a butcher's knife which was laid on a table and cut the throat of her young daughter. She then attempted to kill her other children as well, then herself, but she was overpowered and held back before she could follow through. She was arrested and put on trial on the grounds that...
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...Arrishen Nanthakumar Ms. Mitchell ENG 4U0 7 November 2016 Night Essay Ellie Wiesel’s purpose of writing the night was to show the world the real horrors of the holocaust. Ellie successfully created an atmosphere in which the reader can achieve a heightened understanding of the horror of the holocaust. He uses literary devices, Diction and Syntax to show how it felt to be part of the holocaust. He wrote Night to not stay silent and bear witness to the holocaust. He used literary devices such as Alliteration, Foreshadowing and Irony to really make the reader feel like they were experiencing the same things Wiesel did in the holocaust. The author used Foreshadowing using Madame Schachter. She had visions of horrible things occurring outside...
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...pools of spit, rocks, and sticks and on top of that he was bleeding. The attackers were a submarine crew stopping over the island. This quote shows dehumanization because even though Louie and Phil did nothing wrong, and did nothing to deserve the harsh attack, the men still decided to throw things at them, spit...
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...Dehumanization; the process that made the Jews living during the Holocaust seem less than human. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel writes about his life as a young Jew trying to survive while living in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Throughout his story, multiple examples of dehumanization are shown. The Jews people begin to lose their rights as citizens. Eventually they are stripped of their identities, and are treated as if they are nothing but animals. Elie, his father, and the rest of the Jewish people were seen as not being worthy of humane treatment. Millions of Jews were murdered as if they were nothing but objects for the Nazi's to work and starve to death. Following the period of time that the Jews in Elie's community spent in the ghettos, which separated them from the rest of society, they were sent away. The Jews were transported using...
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...power. A perfect example of the latter would be the Holocaust where humans tortured and killed other humans because they were different. In Eliezier Wiesel’s memoir, Night he describes the extreme cruelty and suffering he endures in Auschwitz and other concentration camps as a child inmate during the Holocaust. Wiesel can neither explain nor understand the reasons for human cruelty that he witnesses and endures during the Holocaust, but learns that cruelty breeds more of the same and in the end survival and self-preservation is all that matters. Night sample thesis statements: You may borrow one, make it your own or write one from scratch: 1. Question: Analyze Elie and other characters’ struggle with faith. You can approach this chronologically or by effects. What is Elie’s final judgment on the benefit/cost of faith? Consider Elie’s interpretations of God’s intentions and use of visual imagery (such as death and night imagery). Thesis: At the beginning of the novel Elie has a desire to grow his religious faith and connection to God; however, as the story progresses and he witnesses tremendous suffering and loss his faith is shaken and lost. 2. Question: Analyze the essence and effects of dehumanization and human cruelty in Night on the perpetrators and/or the victims. Does Night help explain why people are capable of terrible crimes against...
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...change the course of their entire life. Adolph Hitler was a German man who believed his race should rule over all other races. Blue eyes and blonde hair is what kept a person safe in the 1940’s. Hitler used the power of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis) and the strength of the paramilitary organization Schutzstaffel (SS) to establish himself as dictator of Germany. He was a very charismatic man, which was beneficial to his goal to have people support his desire to rid Germany of all “undesirable” people. Under his direction and with the aid of his followers, Hitler was successful in “exterminating” millions of non-Germans and non-Christians in a dark segment of history called the Holocaust. Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, Elie Wiesel’s Night, and Gerda Weissmann’s recollections in One Survivor Remembers center around events which took place before and during World War II. These three titles observe how the human spirit is able to respond to unimaginable horrors and unspeakable situations with an indomitable inner strength, enduring hope, and creative defenses. Even in the worst circumstances, the human spirit will not surrender. In the 1940 time era, a person who was not German or Christian was tortured in many devastating and heart-wrenching ways. Slowly, everything was taken from these people, particularly the Jews. Initially, those who did not match the “perfect” identity were forced from their homes with a small amount of personal documents and other belongings...
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...described by Casas’ as “people who should surely have been a joy and delight to any true Christian (pg. 52).” The natives welcomed the Spaniards with open arms and even revered them as gods. However, after being subject to the Spaniard’s unprovoked declaration of war and immense cruelty, the native people began to realize that “these men could not, in truth, have descended from the heavens (pg. 14).” Understanding the ethics of the Spanish conquistadors requires consideration of the wickedness, greed, and acclimation to circumstance that is innate in humans. These predispositions combined with an ability to scapegoat others and justify secular actions based on non secular principles give a recipe for dehumanization and destruction of other humans. 1. What Drives Conquerors’ Dehumanization of Enemies? 1.1 Innate Wickedness The simplest explanations can sometimes be the most revealing. “For every every European killed, one hundred natives would be executed (pg. 17).” It is clear from Casas’ accounts that the Spaniards could be labeled as wicked people with a penchant for causing suffering. This is elaborated on towards the beginning of the novel on page 23: “I know beyond any shadow of a doubt that they had, from the very beginning, every right to wage war on the Europeans, while the Europeans never had just cause for waging war on the local people. The actions of the Europeans throughout the New World were without exception, wicked and unjust: worse, in fact, than the blackest kind...
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