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Leo Dalporto English 8 Mrs. Oleson May 8, 2023 The Soup Tasted Like Corpses In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, He talks about something quite strange at the end of each of the hangings. He talks about how the soup tasted. This is quite strange because normally there would be no correlation because of how the soup tasted and the circumstances of the hanging. However, the soup is really just a metaphor of how they all were feeling. An example from the book is, “the soup tasted better than ever” (Wiesel, 61). This was on the night of a hanging of an older child that had actually committed a crime so they were very desensitized to this. During the second hanging however, It was a much younger person being hanged and Elie Wiesel said, “The soup
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Being the last sentence of the book, and out of all the passages I highlighted this one stood out to me and described Wiesel’s experience in just a few simple sentence. He looked at himself for the first time in many years, and did not recognize himself he saw a different person. This showed me that the concentration camps changed him he was a different person inside and out. The events that occurred to him had scared him so much that the man he saw in the mirror wasn’t him, but one who had been drained of life that looked lifeless from the events occurred in the concentration camps. He was weak and this whole passage embodies his weakness and the whole point of the concentration camps.

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1- Elie Wiesel is comparing the soup to the taste of corpses because before they went to get their soup to eat, they watched the hanging of three bodies, two men and a child. They had to watch the light child struggle for life in the noose, watching him for half an hour up close until he died, no one wanted to see a child get hanged at an age like that. I feel that the emotions Elie is trying to communicate with us is extreme sadness and sorrow not only because of the death of the two prisoners, but because of the death of the boy. This quote to me, means that because of what he saw up close and for a half an hour, the 13 year old boy trying to cling to his life in the noose, had left a bad taste in his mouth for the soup.

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“ That night the soup tasted like corpses” (Section 4) During the time when Wiesel told the reader this, he had just witnessed a hanging of an Oberkapo son. I think that the boy getting hung was a really harsh punishment, due to the fact that he did not do anything wrong. While reading this quote I could not help but feel sorry for the boy. His life was taken due to his father's actions. To make it worse he did not die instantly, he died slowly and suffered because he was a child, therefore he was extremely light.

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The symbolism of soup shows that at the beginning the prisoners were happy that they even lived through the day so the soup tasted great even though someone else got hung but the day that a young kid was hanged, the soup tasted of corpses. The bell felt like something that ordered them around and they had to go by the bells schedule. This shows the development of Wiesel's sober writing style because of the grave events that

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The reason why he said this is because every one was really hungry and really nobody cared about the hanging. On page 59 it says (two prisoner 's helped him in his task-for two plates of soup. Also on page 59 it say 's do you think this ceremony 'll be over soon? I 'm hungry whispered Julek.)   Elie Wiesel says that night the soup tasted of corpses.

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Night by Elie Wiesel he compares how the prisoners felt after that event to how the soup had tasted that evening. When Elie had said "I remember that I found the soup tasted excellent that evening" (Wiesel 46). He was saying how the prisoners had felt after the United States had bombed germany,it can be argued that he did this because the Nazis would have punished the Jews at the camp if they had celebrated this. Additionally Elie says "That night the soup tasted of corpses" (Wiesel 48). When he said this he was saying that the Jews were mourning the deaths of the prisoners that were hung that day, having no other way to express himslef besides describing the soup I belive he conveyed his emotions through it.

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Night by Elie Wiesel describes his experiences as a Jew in the concentration camps during World War II. During this time, Wiesel witnessed many horrific acts. Two of these were executions. Though the processes of the executions were similar, the condemned and the Jews’ reactions to the execution were different. One execution was the single hanging of a strong giant youth from Warsaw.

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When torment and fatality lingers closely around the corner, humanity's view of the world battles for pleasantry amidst the despair. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, Wiesel and the ensnared Jews of his community struggle through the transition of leaving their tranquil town and entering a life of strenuous work inside Auschwitz. Throughout their transition, the Jews struggle to keep a jubilant view of the world surrounding them as they enter a life filled with dismay. Wiesel uses whimsical and despairing diction to contrast the Jew’s consoling denial of death and the impending shock and agony of the crematoriums. Showing the misery soon to come, Wiesel uses assuaging phrases that are quickly contrasted by foreboding ones.

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Throughout times of conflict, people overlook their self-identity and lose all forms of humanity, often shown through the deprivation of empathy, mercy, and kindness. Namely, these losses frequently occur through both the oppressor and the oppressed. Night, by Elie Wiesel, takes place in the 1940s during the Second World War in Nazi Germany. In the novel, Elie Wiesel demonstrates the great deal of agony he went through during the Holocaust, and his survivor’s guilt, as an ironic and unfortunate Holocaust survivor.

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Elise Pratt Ms. McLaughlin English 9 May 3, 2023 Loyalty: The Strength They Need People wonder how important loyalty is in stressful or harmful situations. The book Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel about his experience with the Holocaust and his experience in the concentration camps. The Holocaust was a period when European Jews were treated horribly by followers of Adolf Hitler. During the 1930s-40s loyalty was something everyone had to try their best to hold on to whether it was for family, getting used against them, and in this case, possibly backfiring on Wiesel himself.

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Throughout the memoir, Elie Wiesel is faced with multiple gory sites that test his faith. A major one was the hanging of the young boy, the pipel. Not only did that event affect Elie, but it affected the whole concentration camp. The Nazi’s intended for it to be a threat or warning to the prisoners; however, the prisoners felt as though the perpetrators crossed the line with the hanging. Although they did kill thousands of people on the daily basis, the hanging of the child was seen to be the cruelest of cruel acts just to prove a point.

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If someone was at a point in their life where they had endless suffering and all they needed to have faith is one piece of perseverance. To think that glimmer of hope would be. I think that the Jews would do anything for a glimmer of hope to take their minds off of the death that was happening all around them. For most people, the sign of hope would be the cannons going off because that showed that the battlefield was growing closer to the Jews that gave hope that the Germans were being pushed back and that shows the desperation that the Jews were in. People find the perseverance to have the strength and believe that the end was near so that the Jews could be liberated and rescued.

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