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Point Of View Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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You See, I See Perspective. The word comes from the Latin word perspicere and the Proto-Indo-European root per, meaning through, and the pie root 'spek,' meaning to look or observe. We use these words a lot, mainly when describing our viewpoint. For example, in Elie Weisel's memoir, called Night, we get to see and contextualize his point of view from what has happened before, during, and following the Holocaust from his eyes. We know what will occur during the Holocaust, but Elie and the people of Sighet do not. As the Holocaust began, the people of Sighet's point of view was, "What's going on?" and then it transitioned to "Why is this happening?". As a 16-year-old boy leading into this new, dangerous, and worst of all, unknown setting, his goal was to survive. During the Holocaust, there were many uncertainties that the people of Sighet and Jews …show more content…

On pages 40 and 41 of chapter 2, Elie shares with us the questions the Nazi soldier asked him once he arrived at the concentration camp, which were "How old are you?" and "What's your occupation" to which Elie lied and responded anxiously with "Eighteen," and "Farmer." His lie gives us an insight into his thought process. Elie lied and proclaimed that he was 18 and a farmer, knowing he was just a student and 16 years old. This lie conveys to us that Elie’s number one goal was survival. In the concentration camps, if you were deemed as someone who was too old or too young, you would be declared someone without working capabilities and would be put to death. Therefore, Elie had the primary goal of survival, to lie about what he did and how old he was, hoping he would get by to live another day. However, I differ from Elie. Although Elie's primary goal was survival for several reasons, my primary goal isn't survival because there are things in life that should be a primary goal, not just survival all the

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In Night. People in concentration camps tried to protect each other but struggled very hard to do so. Sometimes, they barely had a chance to begin with. For example, Elie witnessed someone kill himself because they already committed all he had left to taking care of a family member and was stuck. “A terrible thought crossed my mind: What if he had wanted to be rid of his father?

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Although survival was a key aspect in concentration camps, Elie gradually begins to live numbly, surviving only because instinct told him to. He no longer cared for the meaning of life, and his only thoughts were of bread, much like a stray dog hoping it would find morsels of food to live off of. However, he didn't start off this way. At the start, he lived for his father. Schlomo Wiesel was Elie's only reason to live, but prior to his father's death, he slowly began to free himself of caring.

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In the book Night the author uses repetition to create a tone in the passage, and that tone the author is trying to create is sadness. Elie shows sadness/disbelief in the book when he realizes that he might lose his life in the concentration camp. In the book we realize the author is using a phrase over and over again(repetition)to show a tone in the book, and the phrase he uses to show the tone is “Never shall I forget”. He uses the phrase and thinks back to things he would never forget because he realizes he might die in the concentration camps and this starts to create the tone of sadness. On page 34 it said “I thought: This is what the antechamber of hell must look like.

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The nonfiction memoir genre is important to memorialize historical events like the holocaust because the memoir allows the reader to feel like they are inside the story, it grows the reader's sympathy and it educates the readers about the holocaust so they begin to understand things they didn't know before. Especially in the memoir Night, Wiesel decries the events accurately and describes in great detail the horrific sights he had witnessed and experienced. In chapter eight, Elie watches his father die, then when he wakes up he sees in his father's bunk “another invalid”(Wiesel 106). After withstanding this, Wiesel “did not weep” (Wiesel 106) but he admits that he had a shameful moment of relief. This allows the reader to walk the path of

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Life in concentration camps brought the struggle between life and death, so Wiesel writes Night to share about his experience in a life or death situation he encountered with his father during one of the selections they went through. Wiesel starts out by saying,“The roll call was shorter than usual. The evening soup was distributed at great speed, swallowed as quickly. We were anxious.” As time went on, the conditions in the concentration camps began to grow more dreadful.

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Throughout the memoir, he experiences many changes. The Elie at the beginning of the book compared to the one at the end, is almost completely different physically and mentally. When he is sent to the concentration camps, Elie grows indeterminate about God. He believes that God would have resolved the concentration camps by this

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