The images it shows makes us really feel the hardships of what they faced in the concentration camps. And it really focused on the time spent in the camps with the brutality of the guards, also with the persecution of the
Between the images of fire, night, and death one that shows up often is death. Death is the image that shows up the most because it is basically what started the whole Holocaust. Hitler and his party’s agenda was to kill of all the Jews. It is also the main focus through the book because many of the Jewish prisoners knew what was supposed to happen to them in the camps. Every single one of them saw the death of many people first hand.
In the second painting, representing chapters 4-6 of Night, it shows more of what life was like inside the concentration camps for Elie. Things there were very dark and sad so therefore the sky is very frightening and messy. There is also gray clouds in the sky and over Elies Head. These clouds and dreadful and followed Elie everywhere, mentally. Also, throughout Elie’s time in the camp he became a slave to the Holocaust and lost a lot of things in his life.
This SS officer was trying to tell the men that they had a choice on how they would die. Whilst in reality, their faint was already sealed. They would die while working and then be thrown in the crematorium like they didn’t matter. This quote is important to Elie because it shows him how cruel the Nazi were. How they didn’t care about their lives, they were focused on their goal, complete extermination of the Jewish population.
This portrays the awful conditions that the Jews had to bear in the concentration camps. Elie Wiesel woke up one morning to looking down to his father's cot and seeing “there lay another sick person. They
( ) When they arrive at the camp, they too see the flames and smell the burning flesh. At this point in the story the fire represented a warning to the Jews. It served as a message that their fate was brutal and tragic. Throughout the story, the fire makes appearances in the concentration camp as an entirely different symbol. As the Jews are burned by the thousands, the flames engulf all form of human life.
If one of [the prisoners] stopped for a second, a quick shot eliminated the filthy dog,” there was no commentary on the morality of the officers or the impact it had on Elie (Wiesel 85). This lack of commentary and matter-of-fact way of stating these tragic events increases the awareness of the emotions they had to repress in order to survive. His dictional use of euphemism also emphasizes this point. They refer to the death camps as “work camps,” the place where millions died as the “crematoria” or “chimneys,” and the place where many were gassed as “showers.” Changing the names to more benign titles made them have less power, as though they were common things that didn’t have any effect on those who were not in them.
After they arrive at Auschwitz, Elie and his father are greeted by an officer. The officer tells them, “‘Here you must work. If you don’t you will go straight to the chimney. To the crematorium. Work or crematorium–the choice is yours’” (39).
The quote depicts the symbolism of fire because of Ms.Schachter, she sees a vision of fire, and claims that this fire will eventually consume and devour everyone, and she is correct, because the Nazi’s would eventually use fire to exterminate the Jews. When Elie first enters the camp, he whiffs the scent of burning flesh, and see’s smoke coming out of the crematorium. Elie later on realized that the Nazi’s were burning young children and elderly
Before the quote, Elie figured out that Auschwitz was not a safe place to be taken to. Food was also given to Elie and his father before the tattooing work was done. Elie was hungry but did not touch the food at all for the reason that he didn’t like it and was used to eating other stuff. In Wiesel’s words, “Tens of thousands of inmates stood in rows while the SS checked their numbers” (42). The quote expresses what happened after the prisoners got their new name on their left
In the end, Elie displayed no sympathy. He felt free at last. (Wiesel 112) The author employs imagery to allude to the horrors to come in the extermination camps. He wanted to get into specifics and demonstrate how awful the camps were.
During the Holocaust, Jews and other oppressed groups were sent to camps where they were either murdered or forced to work in labor camps. Through selection, the Nazis picked out the strongest to work in the camps and killed the old and young who were more likely to do less work. As a result, women and children were sent to the gas chambers while the men were sent to the work camps. When Elie arrives at Auschwitz, in the novel Night, the Kapos announces, “Here, you must work. If you don’t, you will go straight to the chimney” (Wiesel 39).
In the documentary Auschwitz Death Camp with Oprah and Elie Wiesel, the maps and images of the size of Auschwitz show how large the actual camp was and the viewer realizes how many prisoners could have fit in the camp. In addition, Oprah decries the size of Auschwitz as the size of “5000 football fields” or “half the size of Manhattan.” Next, the documentary humanizes the Holocaust by providing images of the bodies and ashes and displaying the footage of Elie and Oprah viewing the shoes and clothes of victims. The images of the ashes and bodies portray the idea that the bodies and ashes had faces and that they had normal lives. This idea humanizes the Holocaust by making the viewer think they are just like themselves.
Before the sights of the 9/11 attacks, the Jonestown massacre was the largest loss of U.S. civilian lives through a non-natural disaster. The mastermind and leader of this, Jim Jones, was a man born in rural Indiana on May 31, 1931. In Jones early 20s, he began to work as a Christian minister in Indianapolis. He was a self-oriented minister that just worked in small churches or smaller churches. Instead of moving from church to church, Jones wanted to settle down and run his own church.
Without the fear of being afraid of the camp at first arrival or the fear of the Jew not eating because they know they will be killed, there wouldn’t be much hope. This proves the point on why fear overpowers people and make them not do what they would normally due since there life is at risk. This truly shows the bad of the holocaust. Due to all the fear no one could stand up to
