In the autobiographical novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the author shares a transcendent, raw, and personal experience of the Holocaust. Wiesel writes about his experiences of concentration camps occurring in Germany that murdered, traumatized, and dehumanized Jewish people. Wiesel demonstrates this with his exposure to the Holocaust with his family that was separated and dehumanized with a range of different severities, from being numbered to being forced to work with little to no care. The author wrote his memoir to spread awareness to individuals around the world so they could understand how impactful the Holocaust was to those who endured such a horrific event in history. To further spread awareness, the butterfly project was created to help …show more content…
For the butterfly project, I wanted to express the trauma of the Holocaust and what the event stripped away from many children during the time period.Therefore, I began with white to represent the innocence of the youth, then adding brown and white string to help emphasize that what was taken, can never be given back despite working through the emotional damage. Furthermore, on the left of the butterfly, I used a crosshatched washi tape to show the physical and emotional aspects of the Holocaust such as being forced to move to the camps, being taken away from your family, being beaten, wanting events to end, questioning or abandoning faith, and more. I continued to add brown ovals to demonstrate the amount of shoes that were to never be seen by their owners again, and red to symbolize the fires, blood, anger, and despair. As for the center of the butterfly, I added a yellow background color with fluffy white pom poms to represent the overall light, joyous energy of life. For the antennas there is the crosshatched washi tape to express how trauma will never truly, forever go away, but rather become a part of you that you will always feel for as you go on with the dark and pureness of