Elie Wiesel's Purpose In The Book Night

Elie Wiesel was a victim of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was born September 30. When Wiesel was a teenager, his entire family, including him, was taken from their home. They were abducted and kidnapped in 1944. They were transported to the Auschwitz Concentration camp. At the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, the Nazi officer's divided kids, women, and men. They eventually weeded out the weak ones of each category. The ones that were not killed were usually put to work. Wiesel’s purpose in the book “Night” was to leave a legacy of words behind. Elie Wiesel left an inspiring legacy for generations to read by expressing his story. He showed his hardships, and his losses, all while fighting to survive. Something that Elie wants to ensure is that this

Overall, I would say that the way his novel was written was very simple yet very descriptive. He started off using a proper noun (Moshe the Beadle) to introduce the kind of person he was before and after his experience in a labor camp. He wrote about Moshe's experience to foreshadow him and his family's outcome. Wiesel also described in great detail about Madame Schachter's hallucinations in the journey to Auschwitz. “It was hot and stuffy inside the train”, so no one believed her when she kept shouting that there was a “great furnace”. Another example of imagery is when Wiesel described the hanging of the pipel. Earlier in the chapter, Wiesel had emphasized the degree to which he and the other prisoners had been used to the sight of hangings, every prisoner having been forced to go through repeated beatings and humiliations… The hanging of this very special child, in marked contrast to all the other hangings the prisoners observed, marked a new level of brutality even for the Nazis. For the first time, Wiesel notes, the other prisoners cried at the sight of the boy’s hanging – a cruel execution because of the fact that the kid was lightweight, so he didn't die quickly. It was this hanging, that prompted others to doubt the presence of GOD. As Wiesel goes on to describe the day’s events, he says “ That night, the corpses tasted of soup.” Wiesel says this to show that everyone was in despair and

And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor-- never his victim, Whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten”. This quote is showing logos because Wiesel shows how the act of being indifferent helps the enemy, because if he has no sympathy for the victim, then he can proceed to kill the victims. Indifference doesn’t help the victim, because in most scenarios, especially this excerpt, victims are in fear for their lives. When victims think of being forgotten, the pain, and fear for their perpetrator(enemy) is magnified. Wiesel utilizes ethos by saying: “So much violence, so much indifference.” Wiesel says that since there has been so much violence, everyone is slowly becoming indifferent to the violence. The violence is slowly becoming a way of life for these people. Wiesel uses some examples of these hardships in the text, such as the two World Wars, and countless civil wars that countries have gone