In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, there was a very strong shift in the tone just within the first three chapters. “The shopkeepers were doing good business, the students lived among their books, and the children played in the streets”(Weisel 6). It is shown here that they were living ordinary, peaceful lives. “The shadows around me roused themselves as if from a deep sleep and left silently in every direction”(Weisel 14). This is where people began to no longer feel peaceful and began the long journey of fear and worry that would get worse throughout the book.
6. Chapter Six Wiesel and his father evacuate with the remaining inmates, marching while the SS directed insults towards them, even going to call them “flea-ridden dogs” (85). As they continue, Wiesel realizes that they were practically running “like machines,” no one lagging behind out of fear of being shot by the SS (85). After witnessing the death of a young boy who fell behind, he contemplates doing the same and declares that “the idea of dying… fascinated [him]” (86). The pain that he was in was so great, that he wished to die in order to end it all.
“The three ‘veteran’ prisoners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms. I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Wiesel 42). 1. Wiesel describes to the reader how he is tattooed with an identification number by the “veteran” prisoners the morning after he and his father have arrived at their new camp: Auschwitz. 2.
Every story written has a tone that is put into the story by the author. Tone is the attitude of the author toward the subject, or the audience. In the book “Night,” tone is something that is present all throughout the story, especially so in chapter five. Here are some of the most prevalent ones that are in this story. One of the biggest tones in this chapter was the feeling of fear.
Elie Wiesel’s “Night” depicts death, obliteration, and anguish while directly depicting the suffering he witnessed during his time at Auschwitz, a concentration camp for Jews during World War II. Within the story, there is an overwhelming amount of times the Jews had been in distress. Many children had been separated from their parents and all of the Jews were taken from their homes. Their suffering seemed endless. They were no longer teachers, homeowners, or priests.
Night was written in a young boy’s point of view about his family’s hardships and experiences through the holocaust. This book is based off the 1940s. At this time, the holocaust was coming to an end. The main setting in the book is a series of concentration camps: Birkenau, Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald. There is an abundance of historical information about these camps, especially the more popular ones like Auschwitz. 1937, the Buchenwald concentration camp opens.
4. Synopsis: The memoir starts in Eliezer’s hometown of Sighet, Hungary, where Eliezer is in instruction when his instructor gets taken away. A few months pass when his teacher Moshe returns and tells the class of the horrifying tell of the Gestapo taking charge of the deportation and slaughtering the members of the deportation train. Later in the spring of 1944, the Germans invade Hungary oppressing the Jews of Sighet, making them live in the ghettos, and eventually putting them onto the train to Auschwitz.
At what point does respect no longer matter? When does the need for survival take over grief? When do the tears dry up in order to stay alive?
Elie Wiesel lived through a rough concentration camp that involved different parts where innocent human beings died. His reference to “...they listen, they cry, they warn” explains how those who died are still around with them through the Holocaust and help them be warned about the events that happened. Elie shares that the Jews suffered in inexplicable ways by how they were told that they were taking a shower but instead were taken into a chamber where Zyklon B was exposed, disease exposure in locks, and they even had to create certain things for the Nazis’. Jewish families were separated into different camps but few had survived in the Auschwitz camp, where Elie went to. Although these horrors were hard, Wiesel learned to stay calm and heard
For Wiesel, the war seemed a distant event, and at his young age he did not bother to think much about what was happening in the feared concentration camps. Until he was deported with his family to one of them. In fact, many families in the area did not believe that the war was actually occurring, or at least not in the way they counted. Elie Wiesel describes the scenes he sees with an agony and a pain that make it impossible for the reader not to feel the same. One of the strongest scenes is when he witnesses one of his "companions" being forced to throw his own father in the oven.
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel said, “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” The Nazis were a political party that liked to control the Jewish people, and they didn’t like the Jews because the Aryans thought they were better than everybody else. They liked to split up the Jews from their families and send them to camps. As the Holocaust unfolded, the Nazis used strategies such as separation and mistreatment to isolate, oppress, and control the Jewish population. Separation and Isolation The first strategy that the Nazis used was separation and isolation.
Like steel to extreme heat and intense pressure, people often reform when placed under harsh conditions. This has the potential for proxy effects on moral considerations. This moral reformation is often more of a moral degradation as people revert back to their selfish survival instinct. This is evident in Elie Wiesel’s recollection of his experience as a Jew in the Holocaust. Nazi Germany’s transportation of the Jews into concentration camps was executed with a lack of consideration for comfortability.
Wiesel's obligations were letting us know basically what needs to happen or the actually meaning. His obligations were basically hope, despair and memory . Hope, Wiesels was saying that dreams are not dream without hope and that hope is really important and that hope with ou memory is like memory without hope, " For me, hope without memory is like memory without hope. Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future"(page 1 para.3).
Wiesel’s approach in writing a literary work is to present the role of a prophet through a character who challenges madness. Historically, “the Hebrew prophets got this sort of treatment from the defenders of the status quo, Jesus of Nazareth got it from the Romans, Archbishop Romero got it from the military, and six million Jews got it from the Nazis” (Brown 180). In each case, fear is the prevailing motif that ultimately led to evil. This is the mystical madness that Wiesel tries to insert into his writing since it gives answers to questions about life and faith. However, Wiesel’s madmen provide different views about one’s purpose in life in this mystical, maddening world and taking them seriously leads to a more serious question: “What if
Chapter One Summary: In chapter one of Night by Elie Wiesel, the some of the characters of the story are introduced and the conflict begins. The main character is the author because this is an autobiographical novel. Eliezer was a Jew during Hitler’s reign in which Jews were persecuted. The book starts out with the author describing his faith.
