Mla Citation For Night By Elie Wiesel

What's in a memoir? In a memoir, there are countless events that happen to a person in a certain period of time. It is written from the perspective of a person, about an essential part of their life. Elie Weisel's holocaust memoir, Night (new york, hill wang,2006 translated by Marion Weisel) talks about the hardships that Elie Weisel went through during the time of the Holocaust. In this memoir, the Author of Night deflects his experiences of being taken away from his family and eventually being separated from his religion. What he thought was once a peaceful community where they learned about the Kabbalah and spent time with his family was now home to destruction, dust, and pure memories. This memoir has many important themes and

(pg 33). This quote from the memoir emphasizes the way Elie begins to resent and question god. Elie whose once faith was unconditional towards god, his faith in god was slowly being destroyed by the way the holocaust and the concentration camps were affecting him mentally, and faithfully, and how his soul was darkening as he starts to lose faith.

To show the sequence of the memoir silence was a huge part of the memoir. It illustrates how many Jews could do anything but say silent throughout the whole experience of the Holocaust. In the memoir, Elie Wiesel evokes the idea of silence to represent the fears of the Jews, apathy, and the absence of god which results in them constantly feeling hopeless and mentally defeated. When Elie Wiesel says silence he doesn’t really mean that Jews were silent in brief he meant that Jews have grown used to anything they say or pray for being in vain, and they were just too afraid to protest anything. Many of their cries for help were ignored by god, and by each other.

Ellie Weisel shows the mass scale of the genocides against religious groups and the dehumanization they face. From the perspective of Elie Weisel, we can see that he conveys the extreme suffering and dehumanization that they went through with the use of animal imagery and symbolism. The way they conveyed the extreme suffering and dehumanization that was imposed on Elie and other Jews was by comparing them to animals. A German officer said there are eighty of you in the car, if any of you go missing you will be shot, like a dog (pg 24). This shows how Elie and other Jews were constantly suffering when they were in the concentration camps being compared to animals instead of human beings which goes back to the discrimination against Jews because of their religion and race. There is also representation of suffering in Night by the author describing the pain that they had to go through and experience during the holocaust. They have experienced many horrible things that don't just affect physical suffering but mental suffering as well. Mental suffering will have to involve the alteration of their minds, which we see when “ Right next to us the high chimney of crematory oven rose up. It no longer made any impression on us” (pg 99). In this quote, we can see how mentally drained they were that nothing faced them anymore. Their bodies minds and souls were numb and they were just giving