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
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“It had to be Juliek. He was playing a fragment of a Beethoven concerto… The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin, and it was as if Juliek’s soul had become his bow. He was playing his life. His whole being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future. He played that which he would never play again.” (Wiesel 95) When Wiesel writes this, he has a deep connection with Juliek. At the time, Jews were not allowed to play any type of German music. Because Juliek plays Beethoven, it is as if Juliek is rebelling against the Nazis. He knows he will die soon under the clutter of people above him, and that’s why when he plays this piece of music, it is like him saying that SS no longer can control him. When Juliek plays Beethoven, he finally begins to feel free of the control that has killed him, and he has the courage to retaliate against the Nazis. Wiesel writes this to persuade the readers with this reasoning of retaliation. Another example of logos is after Elie visited the dentist’s office. Elie says, “A few days after my visit, the dentist’s office was shut down. He had been thrown into prison and was about to be hanged. It appeared that he had been dealing in the prisoners’ gold teeth for his own benefit.” This shows that even if a person is luckier than others, there is still greed in their soul. Although the Jewish dentist worked at Auschwitz, he was luckier than most of the other prisoners. He may have been given an extra ration for his work in dentistry, but he used his work for his own benefit. Wiesel adds this part of the story in the memoir to explain that because of living in the concentration camps, greed has become a factor of life to many of the prisoners. Even if those whom were lucky enough to pursue an occupation that benefitted the camp and were able to use it to their own benefit, they were still greed in their veins. They would do stuff for
The Holocaust was a tragic event our history that all of us have heard about, but Elie Wiesel experienced it firsthand. After reading his book, Night, a novel describing his experience in a concentration camp, and his speech called Perils of Indifference, which talks about how humans shouldn’t be indifferent to problems, I decided that the book conveyed his message much more effectively because he displayed powerful emotion, has more themes, and writes it for everyone to read. In Night, Elie Wiesel is gives the readers a deeper understanding of his experience in the Holocaust by displaying more emotion than in Perils of Indifference. In the book, he gives his thoughts and decisions.
Elie’s story resumes at Buna, a concentration camp that rumored to not be as harsh as others, according to the veteran inmates. He and his group are sent through medical checkups to determine what they will do next. They then go to the orchestra’s block where they march and meet some of the musicians. This contains an example of the inhumanity of humankind, not through physical abuse, but taking away rights. A violinist mentioned that Jews were not allowed to play music by Beethoven, which also shows a contrast between Jews’ and Non-Jews’ privileges.
Dehumanization during the Holocaust was the most condemnable factor as to how such cruel and inhumane acts could be brushed off as mere orders, brothers and sisters became feral towards one another, and how one’s body can become so isolated from the mind. It is difficult to imagine such horrid ideas as reality, much less as history, but Elie Wiesel describes all of these gruesome acts in Night, his autobiographical account of his experience during the Holocaust. The genocide of six million human beings is far from rational, and it seems like only monsters could be capable of such an act. The Nazi’s—however dificult it is to admit—are not monsters, but people, and a person can not kill one another with good conscience. In Night, one of Ellie’s
What about your violin?” He was gasping:” I… I’m afraid… They’ll break… my violin… I… I brought it with me. ”(Wiesel) Juliek is a little kid who was going through the Holocaust alone with his hope which was his violin. He still kept hope even though everyone else around him lost all their hope and faith.
Life is full of hopes and promises, but the life of a Jew in Nazi Germany was full of deadly lies and deep sorrow. The Holocaust went on for twelve years, taking the lives of children and adults of all ages without any hesitation. Although six million people were found dead after the end of the Holocaust, there was about nine hundred-thousand survivors, Elie Wiesel included among them. Elie Wiesel’s life was altered at a young age when he endured the cruel pain of losing himself and his family in Auschwitz, but he found his purpose of supporting human rights after a long period of time of living in the borrowed silence of his fellow Jewish brothers. Sighet, a small town in transylvania that was part of Romania following World War I, would
He still remembers his polish friend Juliek, because he is one of the people who made a footprint in Wiesel’s heart by just playing Beethoven. In contrast, things end. But memories last
As people we try to have good morals but, when faced with a horrific event, such as the Holocaust our morals tend to change. The memoir Night is a true story based on Elie Wiesel, a boy who survived the Holocaust. Elie and his father, Shlomo, went through almost two years of torture in different concentration camps until his father eventually passed away. Elie had to endure so much pain at a young age. In these camps, the dark and angry side of humanity was truly exposed.
Some of the Nazis may have hated themselves for murdering kids but yet they continued because, if they stopped, they would suffer the same fate. Wiesel's mother and sister were killed and burned without a second thought. The breaks that Wiesel put into the sentence show that he is still having a hard time believing what he saw, as if his brain is still searching for an explanation. It may be hard, or nearly impossible, to understand why the Nazis were able to continue with little to no interruptions from other countries. This is because the world did not know.
Wanting to be free form all the cruelty that Adolf Hitler has caused not only him but from all the refugees at he camp. Every day was opening their eyes to a new unknown nightmare, this reviled ones evil inner human and the struggle to have faith or believe in a benevolent God. One of the most powerful moments is when Juliek played his violin. All the people where quickly put into the barrack by the Kapos. With not much space everyone was crunched together hurting each other, Elie had difficulty breathing because of all the people in top of him.
Elie Wiesel Rhetorical Speech Analysis Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor and winner of a Nobel peace prize, stood up on April 12, 1999 at the White House to give his speech, “The Perils of Indifference”. In Wiesel’s speech he was addressing to the nation, the audience only consisted of President Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, congress, and other officials. The speech he gave was an eye-opener to the world in his perspective. Wiesel uses a variety of rhetorical strategies and devices to bring lots of emotion and to educate the indifference people have towards the holocaust. “You fight it.
Wiesel’s speech shows how he worked to keep the memory of those people alive because he knows that people will continue to be guilty, to be accomplices if they forget. Furthermore, Wiesel knows that keeping the memory of those poor, innocent will avoid the repetition of the atrocity done in the future. The stories and experiences of Wiesel allowed for people to see the true horrors of what occurs when people who keep silence become “accomplices” of those who inflict pain towards humans. To conclude, Wiesel chose to use parallelism in his speech to emphasize the fault people had for keeping silence and allowing the torture of innocent
When Wiesel makes it clear that he has suffered personal loss, he is evoking an emotional response from his audience. By stating that he senses their presence “The presence of my parents, that of my little sister.” the audience empathizes with him and the horror of the Holocaust is made more clear for them. They cannot only understand his feelings; they can connect to them which strengthens their understanding of the need to act whenever they witness inhumanity.
The Influence of a Setting “Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes” (34). As Elie Wiesel, a young Jewish boy, remembers a life altering encounter, he explains to his readers in his book, Night, how his whole world turned upside down by his experience in the holocaust. The setting of the holocaust created horrific memories that destroyed everything he had ever known and mattered to him. Elie Wiesel, a 15 year old boy, starts out with a strong faith towards Judaism. He and his family are forced into the ghettos, where later they are transported to concentration camps, where almost everyone he knew dies.
Similarly, In Night by Elie Wiesel, Juliek plays the guitar to make the "end" as pleasant as he can because he himself knows that he will not make it out. Juliek purposely plays a German symphony, which the Jews are forbidden to play, to give the prisoners a sense of hope. In Night Wiesel states, "He was playing with his life, His whole being was gliding over the strings'' (Wiesel 94) Juliek knew what he was doing, and he knew what was going to happen to him but he still played the violin to demonstrate to the prisoners to remember that they are not just some prisoners but also a human who deserves to live.
Comparing a religious fast to purposeful food deprivation displays the negative attitude that Wiesel is building towards his own religion. This shifting mindset displays how the Holocaust had a negative impact on ideals close to the victims ' personalities. A third example of the Holocaust 's negative impact is when Wiesel recalls Juliek playing the violin in the middle of the night, where he could only hear, "the violin, and it was as though Juliek 's soul were the bow. (Wiesel 100). In this scene, Juliek displays defiance of the Nazi authorities by playing his violin, which shows a new resistant attitude towards