Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel
vastly between the two authors. Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi Germany concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945 (Night book.). Elie became motivated to write this novel because he felt he was obligated to share the gruesome experiences felt by Jews during that time period. Many scholars agree that “Elie Wiesel wrote the book "Night" as a memoir of his experiences as a Jew during the Holocaust. He calls himself a "messenger of the dead among the living" through his literary witness” (Why did Elie Wiesel write the book night?). This proves that he felt responsible to address this experience and make certain that the genocide that stripped him of his identity and childhood
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In Night, Elie and his father are forced into concentration camps where they are treated like sheep’s by herding dogs. The lines, “On the third day, at dawn, we were driven out of the barrack. We threw blankets over our shoulders, like prayer shawls. We were directed to a gate that divided the camp in two. A group of SS officers stood waiting. A word flew through our ranks: selection” (Wiesel 96) show the strict ruling forced upon the prisoners and the lack of freedom the prisoners experienced. Likewise, in The Handmaid’s Tale all of the females except the wives of the commanders are subjected to strict living conditions. An example of this is Offered, Offered is only allowed to go to the market, she is not allowed to read, she is commanded to spend the majority of her time in her room, she does not get a say in the house of the commander or in the conversations of the aunts. Furthermore the characters in both novels are trapped and controlled by systems controlled by men. Both of the main characters are oppressed and confined by the abuse put upon them by the patriarchal systems they live in. Despite both societies being confined by men, the reasoning behind the entrapment varies significantly. In Night, the Jews were confined and imprisoned in the concentration camps because they were destined to be murdered in a systematic manner by the Nazis. An example of the systematic murdering tactic used
In Night, Elie and his father are forced into concentration camps where they are treated like sheep’s by herding dogs. The lines, “On the third day, at dawn, we were driven out of the barrack. We threw blankets over our shoulders, like prayer shawls. We were directed to a gate that divided the camp in two. A group of SS officers stood waiting. A word flew through our ranks: selection” (Wiesel 96) show the strict ruling forced upon the prisoners and the lack of freedom the prisoners experienced. Likewise, in The Handmaid’s Tale all of the females except the wives of the commanders are subjected to strict living conditions. An example of this is Offered, Offered is only allowed to go to the market, she is not allowed to read, she is commanded to spend the majority of her time in her room, she does not get a say in the house of the commander or in the conversations of the aunts. Furthermore the characters in both novels are trapped and controlled by systems controlled by men. Both of the main characters are oppressed and confined by the abuse put upon them by the patriarchal systems they live in. Despite both societies being confined by men, the reasoning behind the entrapment varies significantly. In Night, the Jews were confined and imprisoned in the concentration camps because they were destined to be murdered in a systematic manner by the Nazis. An example of the systematic murdering tactic used