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.
For example the Jews were forced to observe the painful death of other prisoners. The Nazis use death as threat to maintain their authority, keep the prisoners in fear and prevent them from rebelling. Elie is astound to know how cruel the Nazis are, the Nazis made death to be full of suffering and pain. This shows that the Nazi lacked something called Humanity. One can question how does one human torture another with unimaginable brutality.
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.
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.
In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night he compares two experiences of hanging through which the end result had been vastly different. The first hanging that he saw was of solely just a man and they were given soup afterwards; they were very hungry, their stomachs empty so once given that soup it had tasted as if he just won the lottery. Yes it was tragic but they had by then probably witnessed a lot of the hardships brought upon them by the Nazis’, so for them they only wanted soup. The second time was different, it was dark, inhumane, terribly horrifying. This time it was of three, two of which were adults; but that last one... that last one was a boy.
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 tone the author puts into Night Is a lot of confusion and sadness with some anger and violence. The author puts the most description in these types of tone. Most of the tone in this book is confusion because the Jewish people all over Europe had strong beliefs that nothing bad could really happen to them because God would protect them, so when new laws would get applied and changed against the Jewish people. They would first be surprised because that doesn't normally happen then become confused and soon go back to what they thought was their normal life.
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 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 personal accounts of what Elie went through and the things that he saw, paints a vivid picture of the holocaust. He goes into great detail of the cruelty he, his family, and his fellow Jews faced. “Behind me, an old man fell to the ground. Nearby, an SS man replaced his revolver in its holster” (p. 30). Families were separated.
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).
The Jews are treated cruely and are forced to be shaved and stripped out of their clothes. They are transferred over to Auschwitz, the main camp, and are put to work in a work camp, Buna, and there, Elie is put to work in an electrical-fittings factory. At the camp, the Jews are treated inhumanely, and are seen as slaves. They are malnourished, overworked, and are forced to live under poor living conditions, with little blankets and clothes. On a daily basis, the Jews are seen as targets that the Nazi's could beat, neglect, and often killed.
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.
