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Oppression In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Similar to the Jews being put into internment camps and being sent to their ultimate death during the Holocaust, men are often put into an absolutely terrifying, oppressive land called the friend zone, in which a female has the audacity to not return sexual feelings towards said man. Even though one of these states is obviously fictitious, they are comparable because of the similar feelings of hopelessness, persecution, and inequality that the affected experience. Following this further, oppression is clearly shown through the memoirs Night by Elie Wiesel and Exposing Feminism and Swayne O’Pie, particularly through the elements of diction and detail. Historically, the fight for equal rights itself does not have a specific time period that …show more content…

Words such as ‘unspoken assumption’, ‘insidiously’,‘exaggerating’, and “preoccupation” show suspicion towards the topic of women's rights and movements . In addition, the author also gives emphasis towards the downfall of men’s rights by including details such as “special privileges and protection to women” and “men’s supposed mistreatment of women”, thus showing how the author is directly opressed by the fight for equal rights. The author sees men's rights and their struggle with oppression as them being expected to have traditional cordial manners and fall into the traditional role of the patriarchy of the family, and decides to ‘debunk’ feminism by using these few points against a legacy of hatred, oppression, and misogyny that created …show more content…

They brought us bread – the usual ration. We threw ourselves upon it. Someone had the idea of appeasing his thirst by eating the snow. As we were not allowed to bend down, everyone took snow off his neighbor's back. A mouthful of bread and a spoonful of snow. The SS who were watching laughed at the spectacle (Wiesel. 92). Obviously, the oppression of men is similar. Moreover, this sets a very miserable and reflecting tone over the passage because of his word choice and attention to detail. Important word choice includes words like ‘threw’, ‘appeasing’, and ‘spectacle’, as well as detailed phrases such as “a layer over our blankets” and “A mouthful of bread and a spoonful of snow”, which paints the picture for the dramatic situation and exemplify how these harsh anti-semantic views of the government turned life for the Jewish into

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A dark traumatic event can cause permanent changes in a person. The is quite evident in the Holocaust during WW II. Eliezer Wiesel was a jew in the Holocaust and wrote a book titled Night about his experiences. Wiesel’s torturous experience changed his outlook on his attitude towards others. When Eliezer's book begins he is a very compassionate person.

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Throughout Night, Elie Wiesel communicated the effects of dehumanization that occurred during the Holocaust by telling his story and sharing his experience of going through work camps. During the Holocaust, victims acted in ways that would not normally be acceptable and it seemed perfectly normal. In the Night excerpt Wiesel talks about Madame Schachter and how she would scream about there being a fire at night. The rest of the people thought she was going crazy and eventually got fed up with her hysterics. Some of the young men came up with a solution.

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"...to remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all..." The Holocaust killed over 6-7 million people. Jews were forced to live in specific areas of the city called ghettos after the beginning of World War ll. In the larger ghettos, up to 1,000 people a day were picked up and brought by train to concentration camps or death camps. Elie Wiesel was a survivor in the Holocaust.

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“I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the wip.” (Wiesel 57) This quote explains Elie’s thoughts as he is being whipped by an SS officer. As Eliezer struggles to stay alive he prays to God, but soon loses all of his faith in him. Through his struggles in Auschwitz, Elie begins to realize he has allowed himself to be selfish with his father.

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Elie Wiesel’s true story Night, is an intriguing story about the Holocaust. The guards and even veteran prisoners are cruel to others. The punishments, even for tiny faults, are unthinkably horrid. Man does not care how old or weak someone is; this makes the children and teens change and act inhumane towards other prisoners, even towards their own family. It clearly, and painfully, explains man’s inhumanity to man.

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