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.
Night In this book Night written by Elie Wiesel, according to the article 5 “none shall be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or or punishment”. Which is shown in the book on page 6. “The Jews were ordered to get on and onto waiting trucks. The trucks headed towards a forest.
Through the unforgettable moments in Elie Wiesel’s book, Night it explains what the holocaust did, and how the Germans made it possible to question humanity. It displays Elie’s relationship with his father; Relationships helps the mind prevail through tough situations; They can be powerful and can influence one to keep hope for the future. Elie Wiesel describes his experiences in the numerous Auschwitz concentration camps. Elia and his father had their mind set to get to survive the camps as soon as they knew what was truly going on. Elie and his father’s relationship was instantly strengthened when Elie did not have to go with his mother, Elie describes “His voice was terribly sad.
Humans have an innate reliance on each other, be it a doctor, a bus driver and your co-workers. However, the bond that is the most important is your family. You rely on your parents to emotionally and physically support you. The memoir night by Elie Wiesel explores how essential family is for survival and how Vital of a role they play in your well being.
I agree with you. I also believe that the townspeople remain complacent despite hearing hints and whispers that the German army is approaching in the first chapter of Night by Elie Wiesel, because the townspeople of Sighet, Transylvania do not believe that the rumors and hints of the German army coming will become a reality. After Moishe the Beadle returns to Sighet, he strives to warn the town about the way he was poorly treated and how he barely came back alive. Moishe elucidates¨ Why do you want people to believe you so much?
The memoir and autobiography, "Night" is a book about the holocaust through the eyes of Elie Wiesel who was able to surrvive it all. By the use of different writing strategies such as mood he was able to develop a central idea of the loss of dignity. In the beginning of the book when all the Jews were taken to the concentration camps Elie Wiesel sets a mood of emptiness by describing how all the Jews became equal. He says, "Our clothes were to be thrown on the floor at the back of the barrack.
The nonfiction memoir genre is important to memorialize historical events like the holocaust because the memoir allows the reader to feel like they are inside the story, it grows the reader's sympathy and it educates the readers about the holocaust so they begin to understand things they didn't know before. Especially in the memoir Night, Wiesel decries the events accurately and describes in great detail the horrific sights he had witnessed and experienced. In chapter eight, Elie watches his father die, then when he wakes up he sees in his father's bunk “another invalid”(Wiesel 106). After withstanding this, Wiesel “did not weep” (Wiesel 106) but he admits that he had a shameful moment of relief. This allows the reader to walk the path of
The memoir entitled “Night” is the story of the fight for survival. It’s Elie Wiesel’s story of his fight to survive along with his fellow Jews in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Elie’s personal account of this story is both heart wrenching and effective. Hearing Elie’s personal anguish brings the story to life. It’s the story of how people can survive with the barest of means.
Elie Wiesel's memoir Night recounts her experiences as a Jewish teenager during the Holocaust. This book describes the horrors of the concentration camps and the psychological effects the Nazi regime had on its victims. Throughout the memoir, Wiesel reflects on the humiliating consequences of the Holocaust, while also displaying moments of compassion and tolerance. One of the most poignant moments in the memoir is the imprisonment of Wiesel and his father in a concentration camp and the loss of his mother and sister.
Elie s origin for his perseverance was his father. After being taken away by the officers, Elie and his father had to go to camp with each other. They went and were going through tough times, but Elie said, My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone (Wiesel 30).
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.
Wiesel became resentful toward his God when he witnessed the inhumane acts against innocent people. When Wiesel is in Buna, He witnesses the hanging of two men and a pipel for the possession of arms. The hanging went along as planned except for the fact that the executioner had not modified the hanging for a small thirteen year old child. It did not end his life with a quick snap of the neck but instead with a slow suffocation which they were forced to watch for over half an hour. Before the hanging Wiesel had heard a man ask where is God and how was this being allowed to happen.
This story shows that the tone is cruel, angry, and very honest. It’s surprising how cruel and honest it is. The cruelty and anger are tied together because once the cruelty happens so does the anger. Eventually the honesty comes along to join the party. I think the tone of this story is cruel because these Jews are being tortured to the point that Elie had to go to the infirmary because his feet were frozen.
Victims of the Holocaust demonstrated finding light in the darkness by practicing their religion, comforting and consoling one another, and masking the truth. Jews practiced their religion during the Holocaust instead of giving it up. In the text, Prisoner B-3087, the author states, “But suddenly I thought standing in a minyan for somebody’s Bar Mitzvah as the most important thing in the world,” (Gratz 269). This is an example of how Jews practiced their religion because he is continuing to practice his religion and help others practice theirs.
In his quote, Stephen King was inferring that literature in general should make a reader get involved with what they are reading, so much that it will even affect how they are feeling from their comfort levels to how they react. I do agree with Stephen King’s statement, literature should make you feel something, it should be something that pulls you in and makes you want to know more. If you are reading something that gets under your skin or makes you react, it makes what you are reading more alluring, so much in fact that a reader could feel like they’re on a personal level with a book or feel like they are compelled to read more. The purpose of literature should be to have the reader feel something, making you want to react and feel an obligation
