“Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother’s was worth a pocket watch. ”(Sepetys 27) Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys is about a girl from Lithuania, and Night by Elie Wiesel is about a boy from Sighet. Both Lina and Elie suffered immensely, but survived through determination, hope, and strength and most people today will never have to go through that.
Some of the most atrocious events in history were the genocides of World War II. However, stories of the concentration camps and genocides are quickly being forgotten. Night by Elie Wiesel and Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys illustrate the struggle and beauty of living in concentration camps during World War II. Night follows the story of Elie, a fifteen-year-old boy from a small town in Transylvania, and Between Shades of Gray follows the story of Lina, a fifteen-year-old girl from Lithuania. Even though in Night and Between Shades of Gray, the protagonists face similar struggles to keep their identities, the two books differ in the themes expressed in each book and how the protagonists change throughout the book.
While reading the book Night by Elie Wiesel, one of the things I learned about was the jews living conditions. I read about Elie living them with many other jews and it stuck out to me because how could a person live like that and stay alive? Every jew that was caught was sent to a concentration camp and had a total different way of lifestyle when being held there. Another thing that stuck out while reading the book was the SS officers. The SS officers are Hitler's protective unit.
Without a doubt, the camps were built to alienate the prisoners, into the belief that they
As they stay longer and longer in the camps, the prisoners began to become former shells of themselves and just had their physical presence to define them. They denied everything, not just human rights, but also their heart, soul, dignity, pride, bravery, confidence, and the
It got to be operational on May 20, 1940 and remained so until January 27, 1945, when the Soviets freed it. More than one million individuals were killed in the three camps, around 90 precent of them Jewish. " Sonderkommandos" was a unique unites contained Jewish detainees chose randomly upon landing in the camp. They were tasked with policing the bodies, clothing, and valuables to and from the gas chambers and crematoria, and however their employment was horrible, they were rewarded with more food and better working conditions. On the morning of October 7, the Sonderkommandos all of a sudden assaulted each and every SS protect in and around the gas loads and crematoria.
Between Shades of Gray is a story about a teenager named Lina and her family being taken from her home in Lithuania and brought to Serbia by the NKVD to then be put into concentration camps. The Crucible is a play about the Salem Witch trials in 1692 where some young girls claim to have been affected by whichcraft. Both these stories have similar themes that develop throughout. Irony, authority and hysteria are some of the themes The Crucible and Between Shades of Gray shares. Both Between Shades of Gray and The Crucible share a common theme of irony.
But some of them you be hunted down and shot as an example of what would happen to you if you tried to escape. Now, most escapes weren't successful, most of the times the jews revolting in the camps were simple mowed down at the guard's orders. Now, there were other forces outside of the camps that were more successful, called the underground
Gage Amid the midst of the Holocaust, millions of Jews, Gypsies, Handicapped, and Homosexuals went through extermination and among all the victims Elie Wiesel lived to tell his story. Elie Wiesel wrote this story so something like this would never occurred again. In “Night” Elie Wiesel and his family witnessed and experienced the horrific treatment and genocide of Jews which led to them becoming practically emotionless and abnormal.
Hitler sent Jews to concentration camps for labor in which many people like Kitty Hart-Moxon were also there. He made them work and when he felt like they weren’t useful anymore, they would be sent to die in gas chambers while being told they were going to be “taking a shower”. Living conditions in concentration camps were horrible with many
Yes, the amount and severity of brutality varied depending upon the concentration camp in which the prisoners were placed. However, each concentration camp stripped each individual of their humanity. Elie Wiesel illustrates this impact by comparing the dehumanization to the lives of robots that could live forever and never tire. After a horrific run from Buna, Elie Wiesel describes their lives by writing, “We had forgotten everything—death, fatigue, our natural needs” (Wiesel 87). The prisoners of the concentration camps were tortured beyond the limits of being human and the effect on the surviving prisoners will last
One of the most known facts about the camps is that the prisoners were not treated fairly; truly they were dealt
In concentration camps, people were tortured for no reason whatsoever. Yet another right is ‘right to privacy’. For both people, there were communal showers and people (guards) watching them 24/7. These people had absolutely no privacy in camps because they were always being watched somehow. No matter what, you can’t take away people 's human
“These cars are for pigs and cows.” (Sepetys 30). On the cattle cars it said prostitutes and thieves. The NKVD also known as the Soviets are using a system known as communism. Everyone gets treated fairly.
Both Stalin And Robespierre had secret police that had to find and jail or execute any enemies, for France this was the Committee of Public Safety
