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Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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The vast majority of the population finds Asia to consist of: China, Japan, and India; however, on any ordinary day in Cambodia, the social normality of mass starvation led too many withering lives of innocent prisoners. With the staggering displacement of about twenty-five percent of the population, Pol Pot succeeded in becoming an indirect murderer. In addition, estate possessions were seized by the Khmer Rouge while many of these guiltless captives suffered in these inhumane punishments. Impecunious and malnourished, many of these impoverished people struggled in the attempt to survive this barbarous time period. Likewise, the prisoners of the Holocaust departed with little nourishment to satisfy hunger. In addition, there was lack of a …show more content…

To begin, in the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel and other prisoners experience home repossession several times. In one particular repossession, Elie Wiesel and the others were forced to march through the night to another neighboring camp. As Wiesel describes the nature of the Schutzstaffel Protection Squad is to refer the prisoners as a “dog”, he expresses, “We were no longer marching, we were running. Like automatons. The SS were running as well, weapons in hand... From time to time, a shot exploded in the darkness” (Wiesel 85). The Schutzstaffel Protection Squad forced the prisoners to run. Many of the men stopped and were shot because of the inclimatable weather. Similarly, in the Cambodian genocide, the Khmer Rouge commenced an evacuation of the city. The Khmer Rouge untruthfully claimed that United States planes were going to bomb cities (Friedman 33). Not only did the Khmer Rouge falsely claim a bombing, but they also held captives at gunpoint to move out of their homes (Rummel 134). In the false accusation that the United States planes were going to bomb the cities caused terror among millions. For the people that chose not to leave their homes, they risked their lives due to firearms that the Khmer Rouge owned. Accordingly, the Schutzstaffel Protection Squad and the Khmer Rouge vigorously degraded the captives while they are transferring to another location. First, throughout Elie Wiesel’s treacherous journeys to various concentration camps, the first camp he arrives to is Birkenau. Birkenau is one of the death camps at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp, known for the mass death rate and for being a colossal camp. As Elie Wiesel made his way to Birkenau, he panicked, “We continued to march between the barbed wire. At every step, white signs with black skulls looked down on us. The inscription: WARNING!

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In the memoir “Night” Elie Wiesel shows us how Nazi Germany ran concentration camps where the Jew’s resided, through detailed language, chilling experiences, and imagery such as when Moshe was beaten brutally by the wip of the officer that ran his concentration camp. Elie Wiesel didn’t only write a book, he wrote a memoir, one that was written with the blood and tears of those painful moments in time to show us the pain and suffering faced by the Jews during WWII when they were held in the concentration camp owned by Nazi Germany. In these concentration camps there were different camps that had you do different jobs, but within these concentration camps there are blocks, and within these blocks are units now these units are led by the Oberkapo

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If one of [the prisoners] stopped for a second, a quick shot eliminated the filthy dog,” there was no commentary on the morality of the officers or the impact it had on Elie (Wiesel 85). This lack of commentary and matter-of-fact way of stating these tragic events increases the awareness of the emotions they had to repress in order to survive. His dictional use of euphemism also emphasizes this point. They refer to the death camps as “work camps,” the place where millions died as the “crematoria” or “chimneys,” and the place where many were gassed as “showers.” Changing the names to more benign titles made them have less power, as though they were common things that didn’t have any effect on those who were not in them.

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Elie Wiesel’s touching memoir, Night, shares intimate details about the cruelty of World War Two concentration camps and the horrors that occurred within them. Concentration camps were spread throughout Germany and Poland from 1933-1945 as the result of strong anti-Semitic views radiating from the President and Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler. In the memoir, Night, Wiesel shares of the time that he and his father endured being held captive in several concentration camps, and the battle to escape death, day after day. In the memoir, the significance of night was used throughout the piece to draw connections and emotions from the reader. In Night, night was used both literally and symbolically to portray the unknown, pain, and the end of a journey.

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