Elie Wiesel's harsh diction in the memoir "Night" shows how Wiesel beared witness to history. In multiple parts of the text, Wiesel uses more harsh words showing the fury in the Nazi's words and actions. In one situation, the Jewish community was shipped to the concentration camps. Receiving their assignment and rough punishments. Along with that, if the Jewish people weren't going fast enough to the German's liking they would have their human rights violated.
In chapter two, when they were on the way to the camp. There was hundred of people in one little train cart. They have not received food or water in two days, but why? It really came to me after that point that they well not get much good and water while there in the camp. They need food they do, everyone does it hurts to read about it.
Evyn Ringena Mr. Baker English 1 5 May 2023 Speak up In his acceptance speech, Elie Wiesel indicates how neutrality only favors the oppressor. An example of his central idea, neutrality only favors the oppressor, comes from his book Night.
In "Night” by Elie Wisel, there are numerous examples of figurative language. One of the most prominent uses of figurative language is imagery. In Chapter 4 of this memoir, Elie Wisel successfully illustrates an unsettling picture with imagery, "In no time, the camp had the look of an abandoned ship," (59). This symbolic imagery transports the reader to a world of desolation and abandonment, comparing the camp to a forsaken ship adrift at sea. Furthermore, the quote lays the groundwork for a scene rooted in emptiness and despair.
In the nightmare world of the concentration camps, the Nazis replace God. Eliezer describes the scene at the selection All the prisoners in the block stood naked between the beds. This must be how one stands at the last judgment. The reference to the last judgment is a religious allusion to the end of the world, when God will decide who will be saved into heaven. In the perverse world of the concentration camps, Dr. Mengele takes on the role of God, deciding who will live and who will die.
Long Hours of Darkness “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.... Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live” (32). Never shall we forget the atrocious events that happened to upwards of six million Jews during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocide run by Adolf Hitler to exterminate nearly a whole population of Jews and very few prisoners lived to tell their treacherous stories.
Attention. Attention is something all authors desire to have from the audience when reading his or her book. Attention can be drawn by the author is various ways whether it is through the writing itself or the style. In particular, Elie Wiesel does this in his memoir, Night, to drawn the attention out by style. In this memoir Wiesel gets the attention of his audience through the variety of sentence structure throughout his book that helps emphasize many moments that had occurred in his life and journey.
Night follows the story of Elie Wiesel at age 15, when Nazi Germany took over, and shows his experience surviving in the concentration camps, and how it affected him as a person. Wiesel, through the use of symbolism and metaphors, in Night, paints a picture of specific human nature that illustrates how living in a constant state of suffering or darkness, can corrupt your sense of being and morals, which emphasizes how as people, if we’re manipulated and subjected to hardships, we will do whatever it takes to survive, even if it’s morally incorrect. Morality, while so common, is something people tend to take for granted. The ability to be moral, many argue, stems from innate abilities and therefore cannot be warped. While this is a fair argument,
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. " Hope and an optimistic attitude are characteristics of a rational and humane mindset. Documenting how these ideals change throughout a period of time in writing can be done through various means of rhetoric including figurative language. In Elie Wiesel 's personal memoir Night, he incorporates similes and metaphors to effectively convey how the victims ' humanity deteriorated throughout the course of the Holocaust. Wiesel 's figurative language at the beginning of the novel conveys how the Jewish people followed commendable politesse and practiced reasonable behavior early on in the Holocaust.
“Night” is a nonfiction story that is narrated by Elie Wiesel. He is a Jewish philosopher and poet that happened to witness the tragedies of the holocaust and miraculously survived. The story is filled with agony, despair, and hopelessness. However, at the end of his contemplations with the Holocaust, readers may come to the assumption that Wiesel has decided to wipe out his beliefs with Judaism and God. Throughout the story, Wiesel's own thoughts seemed to imply that he could no longer be a part of the Jewish life.
The motif that I chose from the book Night, by Elie Wiesel is “night”. This motif represents both physical and spiritual death, but it also represents death and despair. When Elie uses this word, it symbolizes when something in his life simply goes away, or when he enters a phase of darkness. For example, when Elie states, “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed”, he is saying that the night that he entered the concentration camp, it of course changed his life forever, but it also was the night that he stopped trusting in God so much because he didn’t understand how God could be doing such horrible things to such innocent people. Now
A quarrel is better than a cold war, and we better remind ourselves the situations that we choose to be indifference toward our friends and families. Elie Wiesel urges people to face their own indifference, addressing that indifference denies the humanity of victims. This whole speech is based on the ethos of Wiesel, conveying the message that he himself symbolizes humanity. Wiesel refers to his own experience during the Holocaust, the most infamous and evil event in history.
Insert title here To you and me night is a time of rest, a time of safety, and a time to put all our troubles behind us, for Elie night was feared, his troubles would follow him even through the night. The book night was written by Elie Wiesel in 1956 and is about the hardships that the Jews had to face. What is so significant about night? Why is the book called night? Night and darkness symbolize a world without god’s presence and for elie night, was very dark.
This is an example of a simile. The reason for this is, his spirit wasn’t actually soft and cold like ice cream. Liesel uses this to create a more vivid picture of the boy. The author uses similes like this throughout the book in order to give the reader a picture in their mind of what Liesel was seeing. When she woke up after dreaming about Hitler is when the boy died.
In the story, Night the author, Elie Wiesel uses repeated words to show the reader how the character feels. This choice is important to the narrative as a whole because it develops the readers understand of the character traits. When the character stated on page 32-33 ‘’not far from us ,flames huge flames were rising from a distance that would be easier than a slow death in the flames’’.
