In December 1939, Poland was being torn apart by the savagery of the Holocaust. Oskar Schindler took his first faltering steps from the darkness of Nazism towards the light of heroism. “If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car,” he said later of his wartime actions, “wouldn't you help him?” Poland had been a relative haven for Jewish people and it numbered over 50,000 people, but when Germany invaded, destruction began immediately and it was very harsh. Jews was forced into crowded ghettos, randomly beaten and humiliated, and continuously murdered for no reason.
“Night” by Elie Wiesel is one of the most famous books about the Holocaust, still persisting at the top of the Western bestseller lists. Its canvas are the memories of the writer, journalist, Nobel Peace Prize winner, who at the age of fifteen, was with his family deported to Birkenau. After selection was sent to Auschwitz, then to one of its subsidiaries - Monowitz. In 1945 he was evacuated to Buchenwald, where he lived to see the end of the war.
Elie Wiesel’s touching memoir, Night, shares intimate details about the cruelty of World War Two concentration camps and the horrors that occurred within them. Concentration camps were spread throughout Germany and Poland from 1933-1945 as the result of strong anti-Semitic views radiating from the President and Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler. In the memoir, Night, Wiesel shares of the time that he and his father endured being held captive in several concentration camps, and the battle to escape death, day after day. In the memoir, the significance of night was used throughout the piece to draw connections and emotions from the reader. In Night, night was used both literally and symbolically to portray the unknown, pain, and the end of a journey.
What can a person do if their language is tainted with malevolent intentions towards others, how about after sixty millions of their own people are inhumanly slaughtered with little to no respect? Nothing can ease a person’s trauma and torment, attempting to explain an event of such horrific context is extremely for a survivor of said event. However, another problem arises, how one thoroughly explains an event that they desperately do not want to relive. Many Holocaust survivors, who are literary geniuses, use a variety of methods in order to express their opinions and experiences to the reader. Elie Wiesel’s use of repetition, Art Spiegelman’s use of a bizarre genre to create symbolism while explaining euphemisms, and many survivors opening up to the younger generation at Holocaust themed museums.
Although an individual may pursue a path of accountability and generosity at the commencement of his or her tribulations, Wiesel suggests that increasingly-challenging situations will encourage an individual to direct oneself onto a trail of self-protection and personal survival. As the vicious events of the memoir unfolded, the effect of the miserable conditions of the Holocaust is exemplified by numerous characters. Furthermore, the development and the disintegration of Eliezer’s relationship with his father demonstrates the colossal effect that brutal mistreatment has on individuals. Night adeptly and authentically illustrates the dangers of inhumanity and war and is a painful reminder of the consequences of destruction and depravity upon one’s
Imagine being a fourteen-year-old child during one of history’s most atrocious memoir events. Elie Weisel's memoir Night reveals his experiences and memories during the holocaust in the years 1914–1945. The Holocaust was a period of appalling suffering and loss for Jews and non-Jews during Hitler's reign. During this period, Elie Weisel changed from a spiritually sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man. Elie Wiesel was emotional before the holocaust, in which he describes how his faith and religious passion were deeply rooted in a way that others about him could understand.
In 1941 through 1945 there were many atrocities happening at once which destroyed many places around the world during World War II, but there is one specific event that impacted Europe by terrorizing many people, which was the Holocaust. At just 15 years old Elie Wiesel, author of the memoir Night witnessed the Holocaust first-hand, and he realized that it was vital to share his story with the world so people would be aware of what happened and avoid repeating mistakes in the future. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel uses imagery, hyperbole, and personification to make the story more realistic for the readers. These 3 types of figurative language help the reader to understand the experience that Elie and the Jewish community went through. The true story Night uses multiple of literary devices to help
There was a constant feeling of fear that ran through his body. It felt as if one was scared of heights and was looking down from the empire state building. Overall this story showcases the darkness of the holocaust. The memoir lets readers feel appreciative of the present and the opportunities they are free to take. It explains to individuals not to repeat the past while showing the trauma that the generation had to
“Night”, demonstrates the living conditions of a Holocaust era and the atrocious situations the people were placed in. An example of this lifestyle leads to a boy named Elie and his father who went through many maddening events together until their relationship eventually withered. In the novel, “Night” by Elie Wiesel, shows how the Holocaust changes the relationship between Elie and his father. At the beginning of the novel, Elie had worried about the separation of him and his father, “I had one thought- not lose him” (39).
Six out of nine million Jews living in Europe were killed during the Holocaust, but Vladek Spiegelman was not one of them. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman tells the suspenseful story of how Vladek was captured by the Nazis, and what he had to do in order to survive. Although Vladek’s experience in concentration camps caused him to lose his ability to trust, he was able to gain gratefulness and become more attached to his family. Although he learned many valuable lessons, Vladek also lost an important trait: his ability to trust.
A memoir of the holocaust written by Ellie Wiesel, “Night” is a summarization of Wiesel’s personal experience as a young Jewish boy during World War II. Though the fear, anguish, and sorrow of the Holocaust may never truly be depicted properly from all angles, this short novel provides reader’s with a further look into the Holocaust from a Jewish prisoner point of view. Learning about this dark time in history is not ideal for many people, nonetheless it is very important that we must be aware of the world we live in. Learning through words written directly from a Holocaust survivor is a different experience than learning through statistics and books based on information released. Wiesel’s interpretation of the holocaust is factual information
Art wasn't alive during the events of the Holocaust in contrast to Elie Wiesel, Art had to interview his father to write Maus. Vladek and the other Jewish people went to a big hall while they shouted at them to get undressed and to leave their valuables, Vladek shares, “They took from us our papers, our clothes, and our hair” (Spiegelman 25). In relation to Night, Vladek in the scene is getting his identity basically getting taken from him, and felt fear and cold all at the same time. In the next scene, S.S. officers chose Jewish to put to work, while the weak were put aside to be taken away forever. Vladek on the other hand was very lucky because he knew how to speak English and for that he was put aside by a Block supervisor that wanted to learn English, he told Vladek to follow him where Vladek then witnesses something he hadn't seen in a long time, “Here I saw rolls!
Despite the brave front that Vladek has put in the years following the war, his story remains to be a tale of suffering, agony, and death. The story of Vladek’s survival during the Holocaust is the central aspect of the novel,
Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night tells the personal tale of his account of the inhumanity and brutality the Nazis showed during the Holocaust. Night depicts the story of a young Jew from the small town of Sighet named Eliezer. Wiesel and his family are deported to the concentration camp known as Auschwitz. He must learn to survive with his father’s help until he finds liberation from the horror of the camp. This memoir, however, hides a greater lesson that can only be revealed through careful analyzation.
Life as a Jew during the Holocaust can be very harsh and hostile, especially in the early 1940’s, which was in the time of the Holocaust. “Sometimes we can only just wait and see, wait for all the things that are bad to just...fade out.” (Pg.89) It supports my thesis because it explains how much the Jewish community as
