Examples Of Knowledge Is Power By Elie Wiesel

Knowledge Is Power

Wiesel explains, “ Jews were prohibited from leaving their residences for three days, under penalty of death,” (Wiesel 10). The beginning of both texts start off with both authors living in the ghettos although both of them at different ages they both endured dehumanization throughout their texts. Sadly as the author's’ lives continuecontine on, Pickova's life ended in a concentration camp due to her being so young. Wiesel’s life continued on and he ended up being a Hholocaust survivor. The result of Wiesel living through the whole holocaust is him having to endure more pain and suffering throughout his life. As seen in the memoir Wiesel sometimes wishes he would have just died so he would end his suffering completely. Within

Along the lines that Pickova wrote she describes her experience of the holocaust by stating her great wishes to have a normal life and praying to god to not have this terrible world. Pickova remembers, ¨ Not watch our numbers melt away,¨ (Pickova 14). That represents how the Jews population is being burned to death in the concentration camps. The metaphor exemplifies dehumanization by illustrating how innocent people's lives were taken from them in such a horrific way and how much the population decayed. The Jews being treated as if their lives have no importance is important to note because that must have been so mentally and physically draining to have to watch people being burned to death just out of the convenienceconvenince for the Nazis. The Jews experiencingexperienceing dehumanization so often has led to them to lose faith in ever returning back to the life they had once known. Lastly, Pickova used to dream of leaving ¨the other world¨ to return to her home in the ghettos and not be deprived of what makes her

Before the Jews began their first journey to a concentration camp, since they were torn away from their homes. The Hungarian police had eighty Jews in one small cattle car as they began their journey to Auschwitz and threatened the Jews that if they tried to leave they would be shot like dogs. Wiesel eExplains the harsh voice of the Hungarian police: “if any of you go missing, you will all be shot, like dogs” (Wiesel 24). Wiesel uses a simile in the quote, "you will all be shot, like dogs¨ to compare humans to dogs using the word ¨like¨. The simile exemplifiesexeplifys that feeling of being lessof less than human by making the Jjews feel inhuman and as if they were equal to dogs. The dehumanization of being compared to a dog is important to illustrate because it helps explain how the Jews were being treated during the holocaust. The Jews experiencing this dehumanization over and over again eventually lead to the Jews losing their want or need to live because they believed that dying would be better than living in the Holocaust conditions. Finally that results with disullisionment because walking into the concentration camp they believed that they would fight there hardest to live no matter what but soon they realized that fighting was more painful than