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Examples Of Dialectical Journal For Night By Elie Wiesel

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1. “They were forced to dig huge trenches. When they had finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began theirs. Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns.” 6 The Nazis wanted the Jews to feel empty, intimidate them, make them feel like there wasn’t hope in the world, scared towards them. The Nazis also probably just wanted to kill them all for everything to go fast because of how Hitler brainwashed them on everything to Germans being the best to Jews being the cause of all bad in the world.
2. “I wanted to return to Sighet to describe to you my death so that you might ready yourselves …show more content…

“The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion.” 12 It was ruled by no one, the simply believed that no one was taking over anyone no more. That nothing that was going around them was real just an illusion to the eye.
8. “Open rooms everywhere. Gaping doors and windows looked out into the void. It all belonged to everyone since it no longer belonged to anyone. It was there for the taking. An open tomb. A summer sun” 17 I think Wiesel in this quote was trying to show death in a way, emptiness. All the Jews were taken from their homes and was left to one but to everyone since it no longer belonged to anyone. Its saying that Jews weren’t going to return back home, that were ever they were taking the Jews from Sighet they weren’t going to return.
9. “The train stopped in Kaschau, a small town on the Czechoslovakian border. We realized then that we were not staying in Hungary. Our eyes opened. Too late” 23 The Jews of Sighet wanted to maintain with hope and optimistic about where they were going that they ignored Mrs. Schechter’s warnings. But that’s what led them there in the first place for not listening to Moishe and to others. The illusions they created for themselves were dangerous. They kept themselves ignorant of what was to come until it was too

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This quote is ironic because throughout this book we see Hitler constantly hurting the Jews. When Elie says that he has more faith in HItler than in anyone else it is ironic because Hitler is the one that started the Holocaust. He decided to invade and hurt the Jews. Hitler is the reason why he was separated from his mother and sisters. When they first arrived at the camp the woman and men were separated.

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“I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked.” (Wiesel 39) In chapter 3 it’s discussing how what happened and what has changed as Elie and his father had been going through the process of selection.

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This passage is set when the Jews finally arrive at the concentration camp. The first thing they see, pointed out by Mrs. Schachter, is the flames rising from the camp, presumably from the crematorium. I found this quote to be very chilling, and it struck me. Imagine travelling for days on end, with no idea where you’re going, and you’re stuck in a cattle car with at least eighty other people. Suddenly, you arrive at your destination, only to see flames and smell burning flesh.

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The quote is important to Elie’s experiences because it shows the severity of what he had been through while inside of the wagon. Having One hundred men crammed inside a single cart and only twelve remaining is a significant difference. It’s important to his experiences because out of all those who died, he and his father managed to come out alive. However, since his father was so old Elie had to help him survive by putting him first and protecting him when others thought he was dead. This quote is important to the book as a whole because it shows how normalized death was for the Jewish people, it shows how disposable the Jews were to the Nazis.

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1- Elie Wiesel is comparing the soup to the taste of corpses because before they went to get their soup to eat, they watched the hanging of three bodies, two men and a child. They had to watch the light child struggle for life in the noose, watching him for half an hour up close until he died, no one wanted to see a child get hanged at an age like that. I feel that the emotions Elie is trying to communicate with us is extreme sadness and sorrow not only because of the death of the two prisoners, but because of the death of the boy. This quote to me, means that because of what he saw up close and for a half an hour, the 13 year old boy trying to cling to his life in the noose, had left a bad taste in his mouth for the soup.

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In the middle of the book, the theme that the bystander and the tormentor are equally guilty for the offense created is shown in a section about how Elie Wiesel himself had become a bystander. This happened when his father was slapped by an SS officer. Instead of helping, on page 39 Elie had become the people who he despised, and stood and watched his father. This quote shows the theme because it shows that Elie is acknowledging that he was a bystander with the question “What had happened to me?” Although the quote does not say that he is equally guilty, it can be inferred from the fact that Elie could have done something to help his father, whether that was defending his father before, or helping his father after.

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