Elie and his father march to Gleiwitz and are crammed into barracks. They are soon crowded into cattle cars of 100. Fights broke out over pieces of bread that were thrown into the cars by Germans. Those who died were thrown off the train. Only twelve remained in Elie’s car when he and his father arrived at Buchenwald.…
In the book Night, Elie Wiesel utilizes similes and metaphors to prove that as people despite facing the most cruel dehumanization will continue to struggle to survive by relying on animalistic and mechanical instincts within themselves.. For example, as Holocaust prisoners were being shepherded from one camp to another in the Death March during the winter, Elie recounts “I was putting one foot in front of the other, like a machine. I was dragging this emancipated body that was still such a weight” as they were forced to endlessly run and would be put to death if they stopped, yet he continued to press forward to survive (Wiesel 85). In this simile, there is an emphasis on how Elie feels that he’s just moving…
The most deliberate example of foreshadowing comes from a character named Moishe. Moishe an old man befriends young Eliezer and teaches him about Kabbalah, but he's thrown out from Sighet along with all the other foreign Jews and taken to Poland by the Germans. They were forced into the woods and were made to dig their own mass grave. They then killed each man, woman, and child - but Moishe escapes and returns back to…
In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie writes about his experiences as a Jew during the Holocaust. In the beginning of the memoir, he describes how he and his community were forced to live in ghettos before being taken away from their homes. Alongside this, he also goes into detail about how he and his people were treated by the police at this time, and the lasting effect it had on them. With the author’s use of syntax and imagery, the reader learns specifically how the actions taken against Jews tore apart and changed Elie Wiesel’s community.…
On the evening of Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) the Jews in Buna gather for a prayer. Eliezer, who once lived for prayer and religious study, rebels against this. He feels that humans are, in a sense, greater than God, stronger than God, to still pray to a God who allows such horrors. "I was the accuser, God the accused……
In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel he talks about what he’s been through. He also writes about his struggles and what he has suffered through when he was under Nazi control. The Nazis didn’t care one bit if the Jews died and didn’t stop once to realize that what they were doing was very wrong and crucial. In the Galician forest, near Kolomay the Gestapo forced the Jews to dig huge trenches and when they had finished their work the Gestapo shot the Jewish prisoners into the huge trenches without passion or haste (Wiesel 6). The Jews fell into to the huge bloody trenches and those who didn’t die straight away after being shot would be left to bleed out and slowly die in the pit (6). Jewish people needed to live the Holocaust but the crucial Nazis…
In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night he compares the two hangings, the purpose of the writing becomes clear through the word choice he uses. The interesting choice of words is apparent when a man is called upon to be hanged, Wiesel writes “He was on the point of of motioning to his assistants to draw the chair away from the prisoner's feet, when the latter cried, in a calm, strong voice: ‘Long lice liberty! A curse upon Germany! A curse...! A cur-....I remeber that I found the soup tasted excellent that evening...’” (Wiesel 46). After the prisoner does something rebellious, instead of just saying how happy it made the him, he compared it to how the soup tasted. This is a very unique word choice and as the reader I understood what was meant by it.…
Elie Wiesel could be described as your normal, average boy who loved his family, friends, and God. All this changed when WW2 began. Wiesel’s whole life got turned upside down and changed. Wiesel, along with his father, got sent to a concentration camp. In that camp they had lost everything, their personal possessions, their family, and even their will to live. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses diction, imagery, and tone to illustrate the loss of humanity during the holocaust. Loss of humanity was a huge theme during the holocaust because of all the things they had lost and the way the Naziz did this.…
Everyone deserves the right to live in freedom and safety. History provides many chief examples of the violation of these human rights, such as the Holocaust. The murdering of over 6 million people of the Jewish religion and the extreme mistreatment of them in concentration camps clearly shows these violations. Many of the Jews that survived the dreadful concentration camps, retell their stories through books and interviews. Elie Wiesel, a Buna concentration camp survivor, reveals the violation of his human rights through the literary devices of imagery, conflict, symbolism along with understatement. Wiesel uses these literary devices to emphasize the theme that a prisoner must remain optimistic to overcome oppression in his book, “Night”.…
“Night” by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography in which Elie’s life during the Holocaust is explained. Elie Wiesel uses imagery, figurative language, and pathos as tools to express the horrors he experienced while living through a nightmare, the Holocaust.…
Moishe the Beadle is a character in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. The Jewish community was very fond of him. In the book it says, “He was the jack-of-all-trades in a Hasidic house of prayer…” (3). Moishe knows a lot of information from a wide range of subjects. When Elie wanted to learn about Kabbalah as a young boy, Moishe became his mentor. He helped Elie study and learn about Kabbalah when no one else would help him. When Moishe was expelled from Sighet, he witnessed the horrific slaughter of other Jews by the Nazis, he was forever changed. Even though he escaped, he was never the same again. In the novel it says, “The joy in his eyes was gone, He no longer sang. He no longer mentioned God or Kabbalah. He spoke only of what he had seen”…
* “I shall never forgive myself. Nor shall I forgive the world for having pushed me against the wall, for having turned me into a stranger, for having awakened in me the basest, most primitive instincts.” Xii…
Elie Wiesel’s Night is a novel about himself and his family and their time in Auschwitz. This book describes the most gruesome event in human history, the Holocaust. It also describes the psychological effect that the Holocaust had on the young people and adults who survived the horrible event. In the interview with Bob Costas Elie describes some of the aspects of Judaism. The main setting of this book is in Auschwitz, a concentration camp in the Holocaust and is from Elie’s point of view. This book has a sad tone to it and this book has many different conflicts.…
Pathos- this is effectively used frequently through out the text so that the speaker gets the audience to be emotional. An example of this is when he says “ to be abandoned by god is worse than to be punished by him” (444). By saying this, the speaker get the audience to empathize with the victim, put themselves in the victims shoes, which gets the emotions and feeling across to all the members of the audience and get then engaged. He uses human emotion as a way to speak out against the holocaust and then speaks of the horrors of it to trigger emotion from the audience “Over there, behind the black gates of Auschwitz, the most tragic of all prisoners were the “Muselmanner” as they called. Wrapped in their torn blankets, they would sit or lie on the ground, staring vacantly into space, unaware of who or where they were—strangers to their surroundings...” (444). This creates a feeling of horror and helps the…
In “Night”, Elie Wiesel uses diction in numerous ways in order to form an audience to connect with his contextual elements in his brief story, specifically when expressing his interpretations of the men, such as Idek, who worked to run the concentration camps. This made the text undemanding to appreciate for the audience. He also incorporated diction throughout the time of lynching men and adolescents, and occasionally using colloquialism, throughout the excerpt. For instance, towards the end of the text, Wiesel refers to the men who are about to go the way of all flesh into the great divide as “dried-up bodies who had forgotten the bitter taste of tears”, by using formal diction (Wiesel 572). This form of writing allows the audience to better grasp the intensity of the regime and how it has formed a severe emotional impact that has morphed the habitual emotions of the prisoners. An additional example of this is when…