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Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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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 …show more content…

In the documentary Auschwitz Death Camp with Oprah and Elie Wiesel, the maps and images of the size of Auschwitz show how large the actual camp was and the viewer realizes how many prisoners could have fit in the camp. In addition, Oprah decries the size of Auschwitz as the size of “5000 football fields” or “half the size of Manhattan.” Next, the documentary humanizes the Holocaust by providing images of the bodies and ashes and displaying the footage of Elie and Oprah viewing the shoes and clothes of victims. The images of the ashes and bodies portray the idea that the bodies and ashes had faces and that they had normal lives. This idea humanizes the Holocaust by making the viewer think they are just like themselves. Also, when Elie and Oprah were looking at the shoes and babies clothes, Elie sees a pair of red shoes out of the pile and says that she was probably a dancer. In addition, the babies clothes were colorful along with some shoes which are unique to some viewers because most people view the Holocaust as being like dull or black and white. This humanizes the holocaust because typical people wear colored clothing which again contributes to the idea that the Jewish prisoners were just normal people. Lastly, the documentary contributes to the viewer's knowledge about the Holocaust. In the documentary, Oprah and Elie view the enclosed part of the camp where there are 67 feet of hair. Oprah discusses that the Nazis shaved the JEws heads because they sold the hair to German companies to make cloth. To add, the documentary also discusses the fact that some families brought into the camp were told that they were being moved to Europe so they brought suitcases with their possessions inside. The people expected to get their

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