It's a stormy, dark, and cold night in the middle of nowhere, Elizer and the rest of the group have been running for hours without a drop of rest. The soviets were closing in on them, and the Nazis would not rest until we had reached the other concentration camp. Will they reach it in time or get slaughtered by the Soviets? Night tells the story of Eliezer Wiesel, a studious Orthodox Jewish teenager living in Hungary in the early 1940s who is sent to Auschwitz, a concentration camp. In Auschwitz, Eliezer struggles to maintain his faith, bearing witness as the other prisoners lose faith and humanity. The prisoners experience starvation, succumb to disease, and are abused by the guards. The Nazi doctors regularly perform selections where they …show more content…
And by executing this, Elie Wiesel was able to complete three goals, raise the stakes, set up the problem, and show the character's motivation. In the text, it states, “Over there. Do you see the chimney over there? Do you see it? And the flames, do you see them?” (Yes, we saw the flames.) “Over there, that’s where they will take you. Over there will be your grave. You still don’t understand? You sons of bi***es. Don’t you understand anything? You will be burned! Burned to a cinder! Turned into ashes!” His anger changed into fry. We stood stunned, petrified. Could this be just a nightmare?” As frightening as it sounds to us readers, it was 100x nerve racking to the actual jews there. But, while reading this, we get to see how Elizer and everyone else was feeling, using the technique of showing what and how the main character’s were feeling. It also got across the goal of setting up the problem, as we now know it is the giant death chamber, the cremation. By setting up the problem, we also know what their motivation is, and that is not to get burned by the chimney. So they end up working as hard as they can, or else they get burned. Another goal that was accomplished by this technique was to raise the stakes. Knowing that Elizer would either get burned or put …show more content…
By doing all of these, he has managed to make the book even more engaging than it already is. The first three goals used in the story were to raise the stakes, set up the problem, and show the character's motivation. By doing these, the author managed to create a technique of expressing how the main characters were feeling. The next three goals were to introduce the characters, stir empathy, and build suspense. Doing these, it managed to create another technique, 1st/3rd person point of view. The last three goals were to express furthermore on the settings, build the mood, and get the readers to predict furthermore actions along the rest of the book. By doing all of these, the author managed to create more creativity, understanding, volume, and imagery. Showing the different symbols got the picture across my head and creating suspense makes the book way more exciting, and there are a lot of other goods that the goals and techniques created, but all in all, Elie Wiesel did a fantastic job with his techniques and goals as it gave the book more
Even through the book is about how bad the people were being treated I still think that kindness and generosity still exist during time of cruelty. I agree that the Holocaust was devastating but even though the Germans hated the victims they still made sure they had the necessities for life. They gave the prisoners a place to sleep and gave them food, keeping them alive. When Elie’s father was dying a officer told him, “I give you a sound piece of advice. Don’t give your ration to your old father.
The third type of figurative language Wiesel uses in his writing is personification. On page 14, this figurative language is used when he describes “The shadows around me roused themselves as if from a deep sleep and left silently in every direction.” This evidence is a strong example of personification because it describes the tension in the room to help readers understand this part of the story on a deeper level. By using a variety of figurative languages in his memoir, Elie Wiesel was able to make the story more realistic and detailed for the
You see things from his point of view and you feel his struggles, ache for him when he loses his family, and although you can’t relate exactly to what he went through, everyone can still find a small part in their life when everything was too much to handle; the death of a loved one, being bullied, or even racism. Elie Wiesel is such a strong and courageous person and, from reading this book, he has become one of my role models. He took care of his father the whole time, determined to never be separated from him, even though he would have benefited from losing him. Wiesel kept his family at heart, even during the hardest times. He never gave up on his family of himself, fighting each day to continue
”(Wiesel Insert Page) To make matters even worse, Elie mentions that friends in the concentration camp who work in the crematoria, were forced to kill their father and other family members. Events like this can do a harmful amount of damage to one. Many of the Jewish inmates are found facing depression and anxiety. Elie is found always worrying about his mother and sister and if they are alive or not.
The bond that Elie had with his father was his motivation to survive the torture he was put through. He spent his time in concentration camps focusing on keeping his father alive because if his father didn’t survive, “there was no longer any reason to live, any reason to fight” (99). Elie had no idea if his mother and sisters were still alive, and if he managed to survive the Holocaust, he needed his father to help him survive once they were liberated. He didn’t want to go into the world as an orphan, having witnessed and experienced horrors beyond imagination. Furthermore, he knew that if he focused on keeping his father alive, it would keep him alive too.
In 1939, a man named Adolf Hitler, a veteran of WW1, rose to power with a group of people in the “Nazi Party” and they had planned to overthrow the government. Their big plan led to a mass genocide of many groups of people but the most well-known group of that was the Jewish people. They were put into concentration camps where they would end up malnourished and treated with horrible/animalistic treatment where they would work day and night just to end up weak and unfortunately die in the process. In the book ‘Night’ written by Eliezer Wiesel, he goes into detail on the experiences that he and his father, Shlomo, endured while in the concentration camps because they were ripped apart from the other half of their family in the year 1944. Eliezer
Wiesel uses imagery to expose the reader to the unsettled mood there is. “Behind the black gate of Auschwitz.” “Wrapped in their torn blankets, they would sit or lie on the ground, staring vacantly into space.” “And that ship, which was already on the shores of the united states, was sent back.” (Wiesel).
There are many examples of rhetorical devices and strategies presented within this speech, but the few that stand out the most are the use of pathos, anaphoras, and point of view. Elie Wiesel utilizes these rhetorical strategies throughout the speech to make the audience feel guilty as well as to come to an understanding of the atrocious events that occurred. Elie Wiesel structures the speech to move people and hopefully create peace activists like himself. Elie begins the speech by describing how a young boy who should be ignorant of most evils had come to know pain and anguish for the prematurely.
The actions that one may make, although necessary, will leave them with regrets. These are the choiceless choices many people are faced with throughout their lives, especially Jews during the Holocaust. In the memoir Night, the main protagonist, Elie Weisel, encounters many choices where he must make decisions thoughtfully and quickly. While neither outcome may benefit Elie Weisel, if he does not make a choice, the consequences are much superior. For Weisel, he must make choiceless choices associated with surviving,faith in God, and living with his father.
In every fiber, I rebelled. Because He had had thousands of children burned in his pits? Because He kept six crematories working night and day, on Sundays and feast days? Because on His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Bierkenau, Buna, and so many factories of death?” (64)Elie Wiesel uses descriptive words to engage the reader.
The Event that Nobody Wants to Remember Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, wrote about his horrifying experience in the concentration camps during World War II and titled it Night. Wiesel explained a little about his life before the notorious event and the asperities he encountered as a Jewish teenager. In this memoir, there are clarified explanations about the infamous event, the Holocaust. Wiesel’s first-hand account of the struggles he encountered as a Jewish prisoner is a primary resource for those whom wish to know about the hardships the Jewish inmates went through. In Night, there are examples of Aristotle’s appeals ethos, pathos, logos, and mood in which he uses successfully to relate his personal experiences
What's in a memoir? In a memoir, there are countless events that happen to a person in a certain period of time. It is written from the perspective of a person, about an essential part of their life. Elie Weisel's holocaust memoir, Night (new york, hill wang,2006 translated by Marion Weisel) talks about the hardships that Elie Weisel went through during the time of the Holocaust. In this memoir, the Author of Night deflects his experiences of being taken away from his family and eventually being separated from his religion.
So Wiesel uses imagery to show the behaviors and help the reader visualize the horrors they witnessed. Wiesel likes to show and not tell. He shows the reader the killings, he shows the reader the burning bodies, and he shows you the electric fence that he would kill himself on. Wiesel makes the reader picture the burning corpses he was surrounded by every day “Babies. Yes, I did see this.
To develop the theme of denial and its consequences, Wiesel uses juxtaposition and characterization. Wiesel uses juxtaposition to develop the theme of indifference and its consequences. Near the beginning of the memoir, Elie’s family is packing for their deportation to Aushwitz. There is absolute chaos, as Wiesel writes, “Bibles and other ritual objects were strewn over the dusty ground” (15). Unlike the disorder, however, Elie, on the same page, writes, “All this under a magnificent blue sky.”
The utilization of symbolism, diction and syntax all foreshadow the ending of the story and help the reader understand the meaning of