Response To Elie Wiesel's 'Night'
Peter Farnham
139678
Ms. Courey
10th Grade
Night by Elie Wiesel
Brit Lit Honors 11 Application Our history can teach us a lot about the society we live in today. In Night by Elie Wiesel, the author recounts his horrifying experiences while living in the concentration camps during the holocaust. Through repetition, imagery, syntax, and rhetorical questions the author teaches us how people’s beliefs and actions can impact society, and how these may cause others to lose complete hope and faith. First, Wiesel demonstrates the impact of people on society through the reliving of his first night in the concentration camps. In this influential passage, Wiesel expresses, “Never shall I forget that night…Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever” (34). This example of …show more content…
For example, Wiesel meets a person named Juliek with a passion for music, and his playing symbolizes the emotional effect put on him by the holocaust. When he is performing his violin, Wiesel expresses how, “He was playing his life. His whole being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past” (95). This example of syntax, displayed through short telegraphic sentences, emphasizes Juliek’s life, hope, and faith all being cut short. People do not only affect individuals of society from the outside, but also can cut deeper into one’s emotions. Juliek’s passion for music teaches us that everyone has something to offer to society, but unfortunately how others can take that away from them. Also, Wiesel’s view about lost hope becomes apparent when he questions, “For God’s sake where is God?” (65). This rhetorical emphasizes the loss of hope of these people in the concentration camps. The Nazis dramatically affect society to the point of deep mentally related decay. Not only do certain people influence and impact society, but some have the capability to dig deeper into an individual’s
139678
Ms. Courey
10th Grade
Night by Elie Wiesel
Brit Lit Honors 11 Application Our history can teach us a lot about the society we live in today. In Night by Elie Wiesel, the author recounts his horrifying experiences while living in the concentration camps during the holocaust. Through repetition, imagery, syntax, and rhetorical questions the author teaches us how people’s beliefs and actions can impact society, and how these may cause others to lose complete hope and faith. First, Wiesel demonstrates the impact of people on society through the reliving of his first night in the concentration camps. In this influential passage, Wiesel expresses, “Never shall I forget that night…Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever” (34). This example of …show more content…
For example, Wiesel meets a person named Juliek with a passion for music, and his playing symbolizes the emotional effect put on him by the holocaust. When he is performing his violin, Wiesel expresses how, “He was playing his life. His whole being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past” (95). This example of syntax, displayed through short telegraphic sentences, emphasizes Juliek’s life, hope, and faith all being cut short. People do not only affect individuals of society from the outside, but also can cut deeper into one’s emotions. Juliek’s passion for music teaches us that everyone has something to offer to society, but unfortunately how others can take that away from them. Also, Wiesel’s view about lost hope becomes apparent when he questions, “For God’s sake where is God?” (65). This rhetorical emphasizes the loss of hope of these people in the concentration camps. The Nazis dramatically affect society to the point of deep mentally related decay. Not only do certain people influence and impact society, but some have the capability to dig deeper into an individual’s