“Night” by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography about his experience in the concentration camps during World War II. Wiesel does an excellent job of genuinely highlighting the horrific events that took place throughout the genocide. In “Night,” Wiesel illustrates how horrific the Holocaust truly was, by controlling the tone with diction and syntax. By using syntax, the tone in “Night” felt sensationally real, and gave us a raw perspective of what everyday life was like in Auschwitz. One way he utilized this technique was by making us feel panicked when serious events occurred, making sure we, the readers, didn’t feel like we were only spectating but were there and understood the gravity of the situation.
In the novel, “Night” Elie Wiesel communicates with the readers his thoughts and experiences during the Holocaust. Wiesel describes his fight for survival and journey questioning god’s justice, wanting an answer to why he would allow all these deaths to occur. His first time subjected into the concentration camp he felt fear, and was warned about the chimneys where the bodies were burned and turned into ashes. Despite being warned by an inmate about Auschwitz he stayed optimistic telling himself a human can’t possibly be that cruel to another human.
Elie Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust. He wrote “Why I Write: Making No Become Yes” to explain why he feels the need to share what he experienced during the harsh time period. First he says “But for the survivor, writing is not a profession, but an occupation, a duty”. In this sentence it shows how he is not doing this for fun or entertainment, but more so for the people that he saw die, and all the people he lost. He feels that the reason he survived was to write about what happened and to show other people what they went through.
In his Nobel prize speech in 1986 Elie Wiesel stated that” to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time”. In his memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel, he shares his experiences of the Holocaust through the eyes of a young teenager. Ellie and his father, Shlomo, must quickly adapt from a peaceful life to living a nightmare in the concentration camps. The memoir highlights the horrific war crimes the Nazis committed, and the suffering Jewish people went through. The best authors are often the ones who can make the reader attach to a text.
Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and a Holocaust survivor,Has a book he had written called Night. This whole book is about the horrific events that Elie Wiesel experienced during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was an extermination of 11,000,000 people, 6,000,000 of those being non Jewish people. Elie Wiesel's experiences had really changed his perspective on life and his religion. Elie Wiesel, the almost 16 year old boy, had experienced many horrors that made him question what he believed in God.
The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events in history. It just so happened to be the cause of six million deaths. While there are countless beings who experienced such trauma, it is impossible to hear everyone's side of the story. However, one man, in particular, allowed himself to speak of the tragedies. Elie Wiesel addressed the transformation he underwent during the Holocaust in his memoir, Night.
Loss damages humans emotionally and sometimes spiritually but it is loss that makes us grow as members of a society. The need to prevent others from suffering as well overwhelms us and we become advocated against whatever has hurt us so much. In Elie Wiesel’s autobiographical novel Night, he suffers along with his family through the Holocaust. He watches people suffer and wither away, including his father. During his time of just under a year in concentration camps, Wiesel grew into a very mature and emotionally strong person.
Just like Poe and Hinton another author uses his writing and novels to express his life to readers. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, expresses his experience and sacrifices throughout the Jewish way of life during the Nazi takeover and World War II. Wiesel didn 't just write the book for his own fame though. He brought many interesting reasons to make such a horrible event in history more clear in others eyes. Wiesel explains that one of the reasons for writing about his experience is to leave behind a legacy of words that will influence people and prevent history from repeating itself (Wiesel vii).
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
At first Elie did not want to talk about the Holocaust, what he experiences because he just wanted to forget everything but he could’t. Elie Wiesel slowly realizes that you can’t forget such traumatizing memory so easily and you can’t not talk about it either. People have to learn to hear the things that happened, he wanted himself to be herd so individuals understand that experiencing something like the Holocaust is not traumatizing. Through his book Night, Elie Wiesel opened a foundation for humanity to combat indifference, injustice and intolerance. Rosenblatt’s article explains how Wiesel taught individuals that “silence speaks to us as words, humanity is what you do in response to anguish and that suffering has meaning if it helps you take one step forward, from the darkness of grief to the light of hope”.
The tragedy of the Holocaust should never be repeated. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel wanted to leave behind a legacy of words, and of memories, to help prevent history from repeating itself. He elaborates on many struggles and how they affected his ability to live. After experiencing these hardships, Wesiel writes the story of Night for the world to remember and learn from the Holocaust. Elie goes through a significant conflict with his will to live, which causes him to go from innocent and optimistic to mature and dehumanized.
The situations of survival he and the other victims of the Holocaust were placed in greatly affected aspects of their lives and themselves as human beings. The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel demonstrates how our will to survive in extreme situations comes at the expense of the betrayal of our morals
Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor who strongly believes that people need to share their stories about the Holocaust with others. Elie Wiesel was in concentration camps for about half of his teen years along with his father. After being the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust he resolved to make what really happened more well-known. Elie Wiesel wrote dozens of books and submitted an essay titled “A God Who Remembers” to the book This I Believe. The essay focused on Elie Wiesel’s belief that those who have survived the Holocaust should not suppress their experiences but must share them so history will not repeat itself.
Elie Wiesel was put into a time and place of suffering, where a man thought that one human race did not deserve to live on this planet. Imagine, your family being stripped of all their belongings, of their home, and of their lives, for a simple belief. And the story that Elie describes tells us of the graphic and sad actions the Nazis did to these people, to the young, the sick, and the healthy, they were being put down and were being ripped away from what they believed as well. The reasoning for this memoir from Wiesel was not only to explain to the world of all the pain the Nazis caused, but to show the pain and distribute it to the people, to show them and tell them about what went on during this blind time. Elie Wiesel’s telling of his
Wiesel wrote a memoir that ponders his survival of the Holocaust. His book Night embodies the sorrowful mood of what the Jewish
