...world full of these sinful beings, it's impossible to live a picture perfect life free of suffering. Throughout the book Night, Elie Wiesel uses symbolism, imagery, and figurative language to display the unavoidable nature of pain and suffering. Symbolism was used throughout the novella to prove that suffering is inevitable. Elie's suffering starts to intensify once he reaches the concentration camp, and his suffering Is accompanied with a change in character; after a single night in the camp, Elie claims that his old, religious self "had been consumed by the flames," (Wiesel 37) which was likely to happen to him at some point with him being a victim of the holocaust. After the dentist's office was shut down, elie was glad that his gold crown was safe; he begins to think about what he could do with it, like buy food one say, and he describes his desire for food, specifically bread, as "all that mattered to [him]," (Wiesel 52) which shows...
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...other groups that lasts from 1933 to 1945 under the control of a German dictator, Adolf Hitler. Elie Wiesel is only 15 years old when he and his family are sent to Auschwitz and 16 years old when he is liberated from the concentration camp. In his memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel demonstrates the loss of Jewish identity during the Holocaust through his use of literary devices: personification, foreshadowing, and metaphors. The Jews experience a loss of identity and self value before they even get to the camps due to the dehumanizing acts of authoritative...
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...like to read books with a genre of non-fiction or autobiography? The novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel was about a young boy who was born in Sighet, Transylvania, he was a teenager and in 1944 his family and him were taken from their home and were transported to a concentration camp in Auschwitz. There were two different ethnicity groups the Jews and the Germans, each had different rights because they believed that the Germans were more powerful and higher class than the Jews. Elie Wiesel shows three overlying themes throughout the novel those themes are hope, fear, and faith. These themes help create the images, and the details that Elie provides it helps us better understand what he is trying to tell us by providing us with more knowledge that allows us to realize each of the three themes and how those themes are represented throughout the novel. In the book “Night” there are several overlying themes and one of those themes is hope. Hope is a feeling of expectation and a desire for something to happen. In the novel it states “every bomb that hit filled us with joy.” When Elie and the others heard all of those bombs they were glad to hear that sound because it made them think that everything would be back to normal again and...
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...Jewish people in internment camps, and slaughtered over six million. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel and Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautiful they both convey their message about the holocaust in similar and different ways. In the book and movie they both had a motif of god, and his relationship with man. In the book Wiesel reflects on god in many ways. During the beginning of the book Elie was very religious, he even said “by day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to synagogue and weep over the destruction of the temple” (Wiesel 3). This shows the Wiesel was very religious and did infact believe in God at the beginning of the book, but throughout the book Elie does begin to question God and even...
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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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...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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...The book, “Night” by Elie Wiesel is a first person person narrative of Wiesel’s time in Auschwitz, the obstacles he has to surpass and the sacrifices he has to make in order to stay alive and how his faith waivers as his desperation to survive increases. As one of the millions of Jew-ish survivors of the Holocaust, Wiesel shares his personal story from his point of view bringing the themes of faith and desperation to surface. The desperation to survive changes Wiesel’s be-lief in God from one of unquestioning faith to a cynical more callous view. As the book unfolds these two themes present themselves and are tied to the storyline and Wiesel’s disposition and mental state. Throughout the book, Wiesel often talks about his faith and how...
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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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...now sharing his unbelievable journey with millions across the world. In his Holocaust memoir Night, Elie Wiesel discusses the theme of Race. Through his use of diction, imagery, and dialogue Wiesel powerfully expresses to the reader that the Holocaust was an extremely painful journey with many struggles along the way. Wiesel’s use of diction specifically demonstrates the dehumanization and racist effects shown toward the Jews everyday. In chapter 6, one of the SS officers addresses the Jews as “Filthy dogs!” (Wiesel 63). This use of diction shows that the SS officers did not even view the Jews as Jew or as any race at all. Instead they viewed them as dogs, filthy dogs. The word filthy implies the meaning of disgust or unsanitary. As if it is their own fault that they are dirty. Another use of diction was in chapter 5, “I had ceased myself to be anything but ashes.” (Wiesel 50). “Ceased myself to be anything,” means nothing. He has become nothing but ashes. It is very straight to the point, short and brief....
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...narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when This is when Wiesel began to disbelieve or lose faith, for example, ‘’How could I say to him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in the furnaces?¨(Wiesel 67).He is confused on why he would continue to pray for his god. A reason is because he had let so many people died and made them surfer. As the author describes is experience, many other examples of inhumanity are revealed. Two significant themes related to inhumanity discussed in the book Night by Elie Wiesel are loss of faith and becoming closer to a loved ones. One theme in the Night...
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...“There are eighty of you in the car...if anyone goes missing you will all be shot like dogs(night pg 24).” This is one of many examples of inhumane content in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. Inhumanity can lead to a long life memory that can't forgotten. Two significant themes i picked out are losing faith and hope as well as the will to survive. The will to survive was very important in the holocaust because it wasn't easy for them to survive. On page 86 in the book night they were running to the next concentration camp but if you would not be able to make it there and stop running you would be shot. The jews wanted to live because they said “don't think, don't stop, run (Night pg 86).” That shows that they want to live and keep running because...
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...Violence is never the answer. The Holocaust was a very depressing and violent time for Jewish people. Germans captured them and threw them into concentration camps until they died. The Germans would force the Jews to work all day and gave them a very small amount of food to live off of. Many people died in concentration camps from the cold weather, starvation, exhaustion, and many other causes. The Holocaust should never be forgotten because it shows how much cruelty people had towards others. Hopefully, this would show the world that this is unacceptable and should never happen again. While I read the book, Night, I was surprised by many things. I did not know that there were crematoriums in the concentration camps. I knew that many Jewish...
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...symbol. In Night by Elie Wiesel, the word “night” uncovers these bigger ideas through both the literal meaning and symbolic purpose. Like the general storyline of a book someone is interested in, the literal meaning of night is well-known to most readers. Many contrasting events can take place at night, differing on the character and the surrounding. For the character, Elie, “so much has happened” in “one single night” that he subconsciously stops differentiating night and day, while other prisoners see night as a time to reminisce with old friends. Elie may be overwhelmed with all the sudden changes in his life and that causes him to think about nighttime many times throughout the story, because of the chain of events that happen at night. The other prisoners may want to spend their nights socializing because they have a feeling that night could be the last time they may see a fellow prisoner, another feeling Elie could relate to. The symbolic purpose of night is not like the literal meaning because it has to be searched for to understand. Night is not just a time, but a symbol. Nighttime is a dim and dreary phase that had turned Elie’s “life into one long night”, where there was hours before the sun would come out and Elie, a dying horse, would have to continue working. The dark night symbolizes the mood at the concentration camp, and the lack of differentiating night and day gives off a lack-of-hope feeling for the bad days to ever end. Once day appears, Elie can use his past...
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...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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...Holocaust Essay "Father just another moment. Soon we'll be able to lie down" (Wiesel 104). This was one of the last conversations with his father. Wiesel and family were transported to a Nazi occupied death camp in Poland around spring of 1944. This was during the final stage of the Holocaust (1933-1945). Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party. His plan was to exterminate all other races besides his. Hitler blamed the Jews for the lost war and the Great Depression from years prior. Being Jewish, Wiesel faced many challenges from surviving a work day, to finding a meal for him or his slowly deceasing father. Wiesel saw a lot of horror in his times in the death camp to shape him today. One personal insight I gained from reading the...
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