dad goes through each camps as they experience new ways of how the Nazis dehumanize the jewish people. Wiesel engages readers’ emotions with powerful unforgettable moments in order to achieve his purpose. Wesiel wants to help readers come to a greater understanding of the Holocaust and make them think about how Dehumanization is shown across the story. In the memoir Night‚ the author Elie Wiesel wrote the memoir to show that in tough times‚ people only think about themselves‚ thus creating a Dehumanization
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since the Nazi’s took millions of Jews and placed them in concentration camps. One story told by Elie Wiesel‚ in the book Night describes how Elie survived the holocaust and lived to tell his story. His story describes of the mistreatment of the Jews and his father. The Nazi’s attempt to dehumanize the Jews is evident by the many hardships that Elie endured. The Jews treated like Elie Wiesel quotes “For God’s sake‚ where is God?” Mistreatment of the Jews began quiet and then it was heard
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In the memoir Night‚ the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he saw the terrible horrors of the concentration camp “Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns.” (Wiesel 6). Moishe had explained to the people of Sighet the horrors of the concentration camps and what they did there. What the men in the concentration camps did was terribly horrific. Wiesel didn’t have much to say about Moishe’s statements and proclaims‚ in the end he saw at first hand what other
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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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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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biography on Elie Wiesel. He’s a very famous man for multiple reasons. He survived the Holocaust which is a very amazing thing‚ especially since he was at one of the worst concentration camps you could possibly be at‚ Auschwitz. I’m going to do an in depth biography on Elie’s life from when he was a young boy up until now. Elie has lived a very amazing life and a very fortunate at that‚ not many people can say they have survived the Holocaust and lived so long after it as well. Childhood Elie was born
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One genocide that affected many was the Holocaust‚ out of the survivors there was Elie Wiesel‚ who valued God over many things in his life. When he was forced into Auschwitz‚ he struggled to maintain his grasp with God. Like others‚ Elie began to develop a feeling of hatred against God because it seemed that God had abandoned them and allowed for all the pain to occur. Elie Wiesel’s connection with God changed during the years he left his home until he was liberated in Buchenwald. His journey with
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These people were belittled to nothing besides worthless animals in the eyes of many. The behavior of the Nazis‚ and their treatment toward these humans are an extreme violation in relation to the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir‚ Night‚ he describes
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“...Silence encourages the tormentor‚ never the tormented” This means that if you continue to stay silent‚ people will continue to be tormented‚ if you don’t stand to make a difference‚ the world will remain the same. When Wiesel says “I know: your choice transcends me.” He means that the award‚ along with the powerful meaning behind it‚ is more important than him. It goes beyond him. He’s scared because he doesn’t know if he can live up to the expectations that come with receiving the award‚ he
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