...How would you feel, if you got treated like an animal? In the book, Night by Elie Wiesel was a young Jewish boy name Elie Wiesel and his family who get forced into camps during the holocaust. Ellie explains the horror that him, his family and other jews went through during this time. The theme of Night is when people get treated like an animal, they lose their identity. How would you feel if you could feel any pain? When the kapos were beating Elias, he could feel the pain. “The kapos were beating us again, but I no longer felt the pain. A glacier wind was enveloping us. We were naked holding our shoes and belts¨ (Wiesel 36). This quote explains inhumanity because the kapos were beating people so much that they couldn’t feel the pain anymore and then after getting beaten they had to stand naked holding their stuff in the cool. How could someone hurt or kill one their family member for something so little: ¨Meir… my little Meir! Don't you recognize me… you're killing your father. I have bread for you too for you too. The old man mumbled something, groaned, and died. His son searches him, took the crust of bread, and began to devour...
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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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...Stars in the night sky are obscured by millions of ashes; ashes of death and vanished hope. The eerie night as described in the novel Night, by Ellie Wiesel has many significant symbols. During the holocaust, darkness consumed individuals with the fear of the unknown. Flames of infernos covered the sky in dark smoke, and released a penetrating smell. Death was one of the factors one feared during the night. The gloomy scenery also convinced and tested many individual’s faith in God. The provoking actions performed by German soldiers consumed one to believe that fear was greater than faith. Ellie Wiesel, introduces the many tribulations of one yearning for truth and the distress for survival during the night. Night is a symbol for the absence...
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...experience is to betray it.” Ellie Wiesel states “I owe them my roots and my memory. I am duty bound to serve as their emissary, transmitting the history of their disappearance, even if it disturbs, even if it brings me pain (p.74).” Ellie finds that he needs to tell the story of the dead. The millions of people who died in the holocaust need their stories told. There memory’s need to be publicized so that something as horrible as the holocaust will never happen again If the stories of the dead are not shared te loss of their lives would be worth nothing. The terrifying story’s that are told by Ellie and other writers bring the pain to the reads. It sends chills deep into our minds that make us sympathize for these people. The readers of the Twenty-First Century need to understand how something as evil and maniacal as the holocaust can never happen again. The people of Germany were falsely eluded to join forces with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Regime who promised them everything they ever wanted. We need to know that genocide is horrible and never right in any instance. These people suffered horrible deaths and with the persuasion of one psychotic man over a million Jewish people were killed relentlessly. I think that after hearing the stories of the dead people will never allow something like the holocaust to ever happen again. It is meant to stick deep into our minds and discourage any thought to such racial inferiority. Ellie Wiesel felt an emotional and personal...
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...| Night: By Eli Wiesel Essay Word Count:665 By: Carlos Guerrero Prof. Ted Johnston English 1301 TR 11:30 08 November 2014 We can know the end of the story just by knowing that Ellie Wiesel wrote the book. We know it because this book is about survival. Physically we know Ellie Wiesel survived the holocaust, but does any psychological or spiritual part of him died during the holocaust? Elie Wiesel wrote about all the horrible torture, brutality, degradation, lost, and inhumanities he suffered by the Nazis just because he’s Jewish. Considering Elie was just a teenager, all he had to go through could turn his faith, religion, humanity, or beliefs. Before the Nazis took Elie and his family we could notice that Elie was a strong, religious boy who wanted to learn the Cabbala. Moshe the Beadle taught him it, and answered all Elie’s questions. By the point of Elie learning the Cabbala his faith was very strong. Elie compared praying with breathing, it is something so important for him that he does it without thinking. He’s faith in god is unconditional, and he believes since God is good and its everywhere, then his world and everything in it must be good too. I believe Elie knowing the Cabbala took an important role in his spiritual survival. Elie Wiesel was devoted to his faith to God, humanity of others, and a sense of justice in the world; which eventually we know are beliefs challenged by the holocaust events. One of the first events occurred to Elie was...
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...emotion and treated Elie as if he was a spoiled rotten kid. Wiesel details father-son relationships to show how natural, loving bonds deteriorate when individuals are faced with intolerable situations. For example, a prisoner murders his father for a taste of bread, demonstrating the breakdown of humanity. The prisoner then ends up getting jumped and is also killed. Another...
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...people through hardships or traumatic experiences is bonds with other people or bonds with certain beliefs. Elie Wiesel in his novel Night, a novel about Wiesel’s life during Holocaust, displayed many of these bonds. Wiesel documented people’s bonds with their Jewish faith to stay alive for the majority of those who suffered through the holocaust were Jews. He told of bonds to oneself to stay alive although quite selfish. Finally, Wiesel utilized the close relationships between family members to argue that family bonds give individuals a reason to live. Wiesel first proves that family bonds help individuals survive by showing the father son relationship between Elie’s father and himself. This is seen throughout the entire novel. It is seen when they reassure each other that Elie’s mom and Tzipora, his sister, will be alright as they are separated. They are being sent to certain death but Elie and his father try and comfort each other so that they do not breakdown and basically die at the loss of their family members. Another instance of the family bond saving one of their lives is when they were on the train cars going to Buchenwald. The Nazi’s had just shouted to drop all the dead into the snow. Two men came to take Elie’s father for he looked dead, but Elie saved him saying “’No’ I cried ‘he isn’t dead! Not yet!’… He was breathing weakly. ‘You see…’” (Wiesel 94). This clearly shows that because of Elie’s family bond with his father made him save his father’s life by...
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...“Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.” is one of the many influential quotes Elie Wiesel has stated. Elie Wiesel is a nobel peace prize winner and has written dozens of fiction and nonfiction, addressing and crusaded against abuse and intolerance around the world inspired by his dreadful times in the Holocaust, including “Night”. In the book, Elie was only 15 when he and his family were taken and separated in Auschwitz because they were Jews. Throughout Auschwitz Elie experiences many horrid events that forever changed and shaped him into who he is today. and In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, was effected by the events in the book because he lost his faith, gave up on humanity, and was physiological changed. Throughout Elie’s experiences during his time spent at Auschwitz, he started to lose his faith in God. Elie started to rebel and question God. Elie Wiesel stated in the text “Why, but why would I bless him? Every fiber in me rebelled” (Page 67). Elie clearly had lost his faith. The thought of rebelling occurred after so many people died having no power. “He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves?...Kept six crematoria working day and night… had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many factories of death?” Elie also implies on page 67. Elie had heart-provoking thoughts occuring on how people could never worship the Lord and believe...
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...In the novel Night Elie Wiesel goes through so much as just a 15 year old boy.He faces a lot of situations of despair but also shows a lot of still having signs of hope. Elie faces growing up in a concentration camp with just his father and is faced with so many problems and loss of people that he loved. Through this time of his life Elie really needed a lot of hope to get through all the despair. Despair can lead you to unhappiness and hope make you be able to keep moving through. A the age 15 Ellie was forced out of his house to the ghetto then out of the ghetto and onto a cattle truck for days with little food and water.It was torture for Ellie he was scared but his hope kept keeping him moving thinking everything was gonna be alright.After he got off the cattle trucks he arrived at the first selection Elie said “I pitched myself was i still alive how was it that men and women were being burned and the world kept silent of it”. After the selection Elie said that “every encounter filled him with...
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...Night by Elie Wiesel represents many terrifying truths that has sadly happened during the holocaust. Elie Wiesel supports his main theme multiple times by using many literary devices such as irony and hyperboles to strengthen his message; he gives the reader a more complex , and vivid depiction of the theme. Elies most important and vital human connections are his family or more specifically his father. Sadly as his father began to weaken Elie started to expect him to die and leave him all alone which made him lose his spirit, and determination to survive. Night holds many strong, and powerful themes but one particularly important one is that one must have human connections to have strength and remain sane: these human connections could be...
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...the chance to listen to Elie Wiesel. He is a survivor of the Jewish holocaust and he is also political activist. I have some constructive thought of his speech. First, I like his delivery. At the beginning, he was trying to get attention of the audience so he made some jokes at first and that really works. He acted very relaxed and humorous in his introduction. But when he move into the main part; he became serious and talking professional. I think it is very important for public speakers to control their mood while they are change their parts of speech. I think I did a horrible job in my informative speech on the delivery; I was nervous and always look sad. A good speaker should be always be enthusiastic about his or her speech and always keep in mind of the content. Other thing I like is Elie’s speaking is very smooth and natural, even though something I didn’t catch up very clear but that’s my fault. Elie really prepared his speech well and he wants to share his views with us. After hearing the speech, I want to treat every person equally and respect different opinions. Besides, the structure of the speech is very good, main points seem very clear. Compare to last time I hear the speech from Vicente Fox; Ellie’s speech is more impressive and thoughtful. His examples are from his true experience and they are persuasive. I think one important thing in public speaking is that making sure your examples are real and persuasive. Other than that, Ellie is very confident when he...
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...put him on a crowded cattle car. His wife, not Jewish, demanded to go on one of the cattle cars. He went to the concentration camps with his wife and son but the Nazis separated Guido and his son from the wife. Guido realized how much discrimination and the magnitude of the hatred and mistreatment at the concentration camps and wanted to shield it from his young son. Guido told his son that he brought his son to the camp as a game to win a tank, so the son would not give up and stay positive and listen intently. Guido’s son and his wife lived but Guido died. Guido’s promise to his son came true when his son left the camp with a man in a tank. Guido showed much love for his son and succeeded without the loss of innocence of his son. Elie Wiesel wrote Night. In the story Night, the father played a different role. The village of Sighet, Transylvania, had its Jews forced into ghettos and then taken to concentration camps three weeks before the end of the war. The Nazis took Elie’s family to the camp. Elie and his father separated from the rest of the family. The father saw the unkindness and knew that the Nazis killed people in the camp that they entered. Elie’s sisters and mother died soon after entering the camp. The father gave up and the son had to keep the father going and the father stayed alive only because of the son’s care. They relied on one another with much love, until the love deteriorated. The father gave little motivation to his son which contrasted drastically from...
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...It has become quite ordinary to not think about the past. Sure it gets taught and everyone knows it’s there but people never want to look back. Out of shame? Fear? In today’s day, we respect the past but rarely delve into it except for certain days. Elie Wiesel’s book Night is the self-account of Wiesel’s life in the Holocaust. It reflects back to the time through the eyes of a Jewish boy living in the awful conditions. It tells the story from the first few steps that Hitler takes, to when the camps was liberated. Wiesel delivered a powerful message "of peace, atonement and human dignity" to humanity. The Final Days is a film about resistance in Nazi Germany of one woman in particular. The movie starts off showing the main character having fun and there is light and laughter. This quickly changes as it shows her with members of the White Rose, an Anti-Nazi organization. She was caught and found guilty. This movie is a true story based on an actual Sophie Scholl who lived throughout this and was a member of the White Rose. Although one is about standing up for your rights not matter the consequence, and one is about knowing when hope is but a lost phrase, barely living in your mind. While that is all true, they also have a lot of differences, for instance, they have very different main characters who come from different parts and are effected by the war in different ways, each story is told in very different ways and each has its own meaning, and they have different...
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...Conor Richard 1st Period Mrs. Bryant LOVE OR HATE Hate is stronger then love because when there is no love present hate shows more than anything. In the books , examples were everywhere , of peopling showing hatred. Hate is present everywhere in this world not only in these books. In “Briar Rose” by Jane Yolen there were many prime examples of hatred being shown by not only a few people , but millions. The Germans , Jewish , and Polish , and gays were the groups. The main two were the Jewish and Germans who displayed so much hatred that it led to millions of deaths. Love was obviously not present in these times. Another reason for my belief that hate is stronger emotion than love , was in the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel. The best example shown was towards the end of the book. Elie lost all the love he had for everyone , including his dad. He watched his father die and let it happen to keep his belongings for his self. In “The Chosen” by Chaim Potock the love started off strong at the beginning then hatred over powered it. Especially during the baseball game. The players wanted to kill each other rather than playa fair game of baseball! When Reb banned his son from seeing Rueben was also hate being shown by all 3 characters. Although love plays a role in these books , I found that hate played a greater role. No matter the reasoning , people will always show some sort of hate towards the...
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...is one of life’s few promises. Some experience this ablution a lot sooner than they should. In children who survived the holocaust in concentration camps, their innocence was taken as soon as their ordinary everyday life was imposed upon by the Nazis. In Elie Wiesel’s book Night, he describes himself as an innocent teenager, a child whose innocence was taken from him as the result of the nefariousness performed by the Nazis in World War Two. Elie and his family were transported to Birkenau where his family was torn apart, leaving him with his father, his sisters and his mother. Once they were separated, he began to slowly lose his innocence. Towards the end of 1941, in the small village of Sighet, Hungary, twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel spent most of his time studying the Talmud. Elie was one of four children born to his mother and father. Hilda was the eldest, then Bea, he was the third, and Tzipora was the youngest. The two eldest sisters helped the parents run the family store while Elie stayed home to study. Elie was very passionate about the theology of his religion, Judaism. He studied Talmud by day and by night he would go to the synagogue to pray. One of his main interests was Kabbalah which is an aspect of Jewish mysticism. Elie asked his father to find him a master to guide him in his studies of Kabbalah. His father was not fond of Elie studying mysticism because there were no Kabbalists in Sighet. He told his son that he was too young for this. One...
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