...Historical Background on Night and Eliezer Wiesel In Sighet, Transylvania on September 30,1928 a Holocaust survivor was born. Eliezer Wiesel who is 85 years old, grew up with three siblings, all girls. Shlomo, Elie’s father was a shopkeeper. When he was 15 Elie and his family were forced to a concentration camp. Wiesel's parents died and so did one of his sisters. When Elie was freed from camp Buchenwald in 1945, he went and studied in France three years later. His friend, Francois mauriac, later convinced him to write about the events and his story about what all happened in those camps. Wiesel is a writer and a world activist. He has written plenty of books including: The Oath, The Gates of the forest, and Town of Luck. Eliezer is also...
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...including Elie Wiesel and Anne Frank. Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel both suffered badly, but had different outcomes. They have many similarities and differences. Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel have many similarities. Firstly, Elie was "not yet fifteen" when he and his family were arrested by Hungarian police and sent to a concentration camp (Wiesel 22). This shows that Elie was tortured at a young age. This is why he wanted to stay with his father, because he was so young. Secondly, Anne Frank was thirteen years old when "she and her family went into hiding to escape persecution by the Nazis."(Frank 97). This shows that if she was found, the soldiers would not take her age into consideration. This is why she learned to act more mature. In conclusion, Elie Wiesel and Anne frank shared some similarities. During the Holocaust, Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel had just as many differences as similarities. For example, " An American tank stood at the gates of Buchenwald." (Wiesel 83). This shows that even though Elie Wiesel had experienced horrible things at a young age, such as the hanging of a pipel, he survived and was rescued. This is why he is able to describe the events that happened to him during the Holocaust. Also, Anne Frank "died peacefully . She was not yet sixteen."(Schnabel 107). This shows that Anne Frank paid the ultimate price because of the Holocaust. This is why you must ask others or do research in order to know what happen to Anne Frank. Thus, those are some differences Anne...
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...Night by Elie Wiesel, a young boy, Elie, finds himself in the exact situation when Elie and his father are separated from the rest of the family and put in the concentration camps. There, they are treated like animals, the cruel treatment is excruciating and hard to handle, but Elie makes it out alive leaving his father behind. During the traumatic experience, Elie Wiesel and other Jews were exposed to a great deal of cruel treatment in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. Therefore, he was struggling to keep his faith in the midst of it all....
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..."Night" by Elie Wiesel is a terrifying account of the Holocaust during World War II. Throughout this book we see a young Jewish boy's life turned upside down from his peaceful ways. The author explores how dangerous times break all social ties, leaving everyone to fight for themselves. He also shows how one's survival may be linked to faith and family. The novel starts out in a small highly Jewish populated Hungarian town named Sighet. The people's lives and community somewhat revolve around each other and religion (Judaism). More importantly we see immense care and concern among the citizens; they all help one another and are true to their similar beliefs and values. Eliezer's life starts out revolving around God, as he goes on his journey studying the cabbala and other forms of Jewish religious texts. Initially Eliezer's belief is a product of Jewish mysticism that God is everywhere and that nothing exists without God, and in the start his faith in God is absolute. During the Holocaust, things change irreparably. The peaceful calm Jewish community that Eliezer once grew up with was shattered into a realm of chaos and selfishness. Eliezer believes that if all the prisoners were to unite to oppose the cruel that the Nazis inflicted upon them, then maybe he could understand the Nazi menace as an evil abnormality, but instead he sees that the Holocaust exposes the selfishness, evil, and cruelty of everybody; not only the Nazis, but also his fellow Jews, and even himself. I...
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...In the memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel, the reader discovers the bond that Elie has with his father, Schlomo, during the Holocaust. Having each other during the Holocaust, they can protect each other mentally, physically and emotionally. Father-son relationships are a strong bond, and experiencing such painful situations together can strengthen the connection. Elie and his father’s relationship changes immensely, as we see the difference in their relationship from before the camp, in the camp and when Schlomo grew weak. Schlomo raised Elie, and shaped who he was as a Jewish man, with integrity and respect. Schlomo was a positive man, who always gave people reason and hope. Their life before the camp was normal; and the family was loving and supportive to one another. However, Elie believed that his father cared more about the townspeople than his own family. “…Was more involved with the welfare of others than with his own kin” (Wiesel 27). Although Schlomo was a strong father figure, he was a very busy man, and the people in the town of Sighet needed him as well. Disagreements between the Elie and Schlomo lead to an early clash of power. When Schlomo denied Elie’s request to learn and be more...
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...In the book Night Elie Wiesel has a strong faith in God at the beginning of the book.Wiesel has developed this faith by his studies in mysticism and Kabbalah he seems very eager to learn more . For instance, on page four he says “One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah. ‘You are too young for that. Maimonides tells us that one must be thirty before venturing into the world of mysticism.’”Wiesel’s loss of confidence in God who he once strongly believed in is thanks to the inhumane way people were treated, his lack of basic life necessities, and all the losses Wiesel experienced during the camp and the Holocaust in general. One reason Wiesel lost faith was because he did not believe...
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...Emotions and thoughts on being different Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, and Langston Hughes the author of I, Too display many differences throughout their work. Each author’s use of imagery and the tones they convey allow the reader to understand their emotions. To begin with, in the novel Night by Elie Wiesel and the poem “I, too” by Langston Hughes, the two author’s use of imagery is different because they both give really different images in your head...An example of this difference in the novel is “Our backyard looked like a marketplace. Valuable objects, precious rugs, silver candlesticks, bibles and other ritual objects were strewn over the dusty grounds.” The imagery helps create an image of a backyard full of things with price...
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...Powerful groups are like parasites that feed off of helpless individuals. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, it shows the journey of a 15 year old boy in the Holocaust. On the other hand, Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, shows the experience of a teenage girl in the Japanese Internment Camps. Elie and Jeanne both are similar in the fact that they both had their rights violated by a powerful group, but they are different in the way that Jeanne found herself in the camp and Elie lost his faith in humanity because nobody helped him throughout most of his struggles. Elie and Jeanne both had their rights violated by a powerful group, but Elie lost a part of him in the camp whereas Jeanne found herself in her camp. “From the depths...
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...Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel Anne Frank was a 13 year-old girl when she was going through the holocaust. Her and her family moved to the netherlands to try and avoid the conflict of the war, but eventually the germans invaded and took the netherlands which forced anne and her sister margot to go to a Jewish school and her dad Otto lost his business. Elie Wiesel was a jewish boy who lived in a small Hungarian town who liked reading old jewish books about his culture. There were many similarities and differences between these two young individuals. One being the setting of where they were at, another being what time period and event took place, and what happened to their families. Anne went into hiding while Elie was taken to a concentration...
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...someone of human qualities or attributes. In the novel, Night, Eliezer Wiesel tells his personal experiences as a young Jewish boy during the holocaust. Jews were captured and sent to concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Birkenau; where they would experience the worst forms of torture, and abuse. Torture has obvious physical effects, but it also can cause psychological changes on those who are victimized. In the novel, Night, Elie Wiesel uses figurative and connotative language to demonstrate that dehumanization causes people to become indifferent about life or death, the victims behave less than human, and people see themselves as less than human. To begin, In Night, Elie Wiesel uses rhetorical...
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...People need to help another person’s life out, take action, take control of own life. People need to stand up for what’s right and to speak up for those who need a voice. Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech and the Victims of the Holocaust help my claim because both of these sources state that we should take action and try to speak up and make a difference. Anne Frank talks about how to stay positive in conflict, though the Frank family took action by going into hiding,she stays more positive doing something about it. As these works show, taking action, taking control of the conflict is the best way to respond to it, taking action is taking control of your life, your own future. Elie Wiesel gives a speech about how he survived of the Auschwitz...
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...World War Two is the most known war around the World and there were many victims that did not survive but the ones who did often recount their lives during this time by writing. One example of this is the noel Night by Elie Wiesel. Within this novel there were many quotes that had significant impacts on the lives of their readers and three very important quotes are: "… Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes,"(p. 34) "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people."(p.81). Another important part is when Wiesel explained that after the death of the youth from Warsaw the soup tastes better than ever but after the death of Pipel the soup tasted like corpses. The significance of each of these quotes are unique ways but they all go together in explaining Elie Wiesel's experience in the Holocaust. The first quote, "...Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes..." (Wiesel 34) is significant because it finally explained the lost of faith that Wiesel had lost. In the...
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...level 1, 2, and 3 questions. Level 2 and 3 questions should have detailed responses. Level 1 Etymologically what does the word indifference mean? Etymologically, the word means "no difference." Describe the Holocaust. The Holocaust was where people like Elie were sent to concentration camps and forced to work. Many were killed. Level 2 Analyze the way Elie uses the word gratitude. Level 3 How do you think the Holocaust impacted Elie’s life? Elie is emotionally scarred for life. Evaluate how Elie uses Roosevelt in the speech and how it affects it. 3. Provide clear, precise, and detailed evidence of the following rhetorical patterns: allusion, definition, rhetorical questions, biography, repetition, and parallel structure. Elie uses rhetorical questions by stating things like, “Does it mean that we have learned from the past? Does it mean that society has changed? Has the human being become less indifferent and more human? Have we really learned from our experiences?” He uses repetition by repeating words like, gratitude, indifference, our, and human. In the sentence, “What is indifference? Etymologically, the word means "no difference." Wiesel used definition by giving the etymological definition of indifference. 4. What is your stance toward the speech? Elaborate. I think Elie makes very good points when talking about humans being indifferent, and how it makes us inhumane. Indifference is...
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...Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author of “Night”, was deported along with his family to an extermination camp in 1944 where they endured hardships ranging from slavery to starvation. On April 12, 1999, in Washington, D.C., Wiesel presents his speech, “The Perils of Indifference” to President Clinton, his First Lady, White House Officials, and the American people. Referring to the tragic events of the twentieth century, Wiesel lectures on the threat that “indifference” poses, and discusses his hopes for a better future. Leading the speech, the author begins with an anecdote of his childhood, the liberation of Buchenwald. He mentioned the memories of the american soldier’s compassion and rage towards the victim’s situation during the...
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...Rhetorical Analysis of The Perils of Indifference by Elie Wiesel As part of the Millennium Lecture Series hosted by the White House, notable author, Noble Peace Prize Winner, and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel delivered the speech The Perils of Indifference on April 12, 1999. He delivered this speech in order to inspire the American people to take action in times of human suffering, injustice, and violence, in order to prevent events like the Holocaust from happening again in the future. Through the use of the modes of persuasion, his rhetorical situation, and word choice, Wiesel successfully appeals to his audience of President Clinton and his wife, the members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, his “excellencies” and the rest of the American public. Wiesel’s main point in his speech is that of indifference and what can come about because of it. In order to successfully define indifference to the audience and persuade them to never be indifferent in the future, Wiesel defines its etymology, as “no difference” and uses numerous comparisons on what may cause indifference, as “a strange and unnatural state in which the lines blur” in circumstances like light and dark and good and evil. To prove that indifference is both a sin and a punishment, Wiesel appeals to logos and ethos, stating that he is aware of how tempting it may be to be indifferent and that it can be easier to avoid something rather than take action against it. He believes that indifference benefits the aggressor...
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