“The yellow star? Oh well what of it‚ you don’t die of it...” (Wiesel 5). This dialogue from a character in the novel expresses the hardships of the Jewish populations during the early time of the holocaust. Dehumanization is when a human feels like their life is not worth anything to even be alive anymore. They feel deprived of all their human qualities. The Germans threw the Jews into harsh concentration camps. They placed sanctions on their everyday ordinary lives. If the guards felt like a
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In Elie Wiesel’s book‚ "Night"‚ the main character Eliezer‚ goes through numerous struggles with his faith in God which is caused by the Holocaust. This horrific genocide changed the way many Jews and others thought about their religion and views on things. Just like others Eliezer experienced the same but was questionable about his faith even before the Holocaust took place. In the beginning of Night‚ Eliezer went to the synagogue to pray every day and wanted study the cabbala very badly but
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02 May 2013 Loss of Innocence in Night by Elie Wiesel Is there ever the possibility of the loss of innocence? How can one lose their innocence? What is innocence? The loss of innocence can happen after certain events. These events make kids have to grow up and get independant quickly‚ if not‚ well they can’t survive. That is the loss of innocence. When kids must grow up quickly and learn the truth about the real world and how cruel it can be. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel there are a number of examples of loss of
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Period 1 28 March 2017 Synthesis Essay “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”― Elie Wiesel. In the memoir‚ The Night by Elie Wiesel tells a story how twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel himself spends much time in trainloads of Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. In a train car eighty villagers have to survive on slightest food and water. When Elie Wiesel is 16 the United States Army in April 1945 saved him‚ but it was too late for his father‚ who died after a beating
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In his book‚ Night‚ Elie Wiesel uses vivid imagery and dramatic diction to bring to life his horrid and painful memories of the Holocaust and his time in Auschwitz. At the end of chapter 4 Wiesel describes the events that occurred leading up to the death of a young pipel. This scene is brought to life by Wiesel’s incredible use of diction to reinforce the imagery used to create a sense of emotion felt by the reader. Throughout this book diction is used to create a deeper connection to the events
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faith. Unable to know why God would allow an event so inhumane like the Holocaust happen‚ makes society question Him. In Night‚ Eliezer was a Jew who was forced to go to a few concentration camps. In the camps Eliezer saw and experienced many barbaric events. Him and many other Jews struggled to survive‚ which made him question his beliefs. In the memoir Night by Eliezer Wiesel‚ he uses Eliezer’s relationship with God to show that people doubt their faith when times get tough and that sometimes when
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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
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In What Dies? At the end of Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ as Wiesel is staring back into his own corpses eyes‚ it is clear to readers that Wiesel’s emotions‚ feelings‚ and even psychological mindset is completely and utterly eradicated. After enduring not only the mental toll of the Holocaust but also the somatic torture placed upon him‚ Wiesel is nothing but dead- just not literally. As found on page 85‚ “I was putting one foot in front of the other‚ like a machine.” This refers to a time when Wiesel’s
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In the story‚ Wiesel talks about what it was like to be sent to the concentration camp Auschwitz. Not only did he talk about what it was like to be sent there‚ but he also described what it was like to go through the camp. To me‚ I realized how brave Wiesel was to have been in such an awful and discriminating situation and still try to find hope. If it were me in his shoes I have no idea what I would have done. It’s hard to think about it considering that nobody I know has ever been in a situation
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time. As a reader‚ personification allows us to easier relate to the idea or feeling the author is conveying. Wiesel uses personification on page thirty nine‚ when he says “Remorse began to gnaw at me.” Remorse cannot eat away at a person‚ but it allows the reader to understand how guilty Elie felt when he did not stand up for his father. A second example of figurative language used in Night is foreshadowing. Foreshadowing allows the author to keep
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