“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”(Primo Levi). This memoir is titled “Night”. The author is Elie Wiesel. It was published in 1956. This book is about a boy and his family getting seperated and fighting for survival. Through out “Night” there were parts that showed that the Nazi”s were heartless and didn't think twice about anything. One example of the Nazi’s heartlessness was when they used babies as targets. They didn’t care about the babies and ended the lives of many innocent babies. “ Babies were thrown into the air and the machine gunners used them as targets”(5). This shows that if they didn’t care about innocent babies they wouldn’t care about killing millions of people. This is important because it shows how they would use Jew’s in anyway Possible. In conclusion through out “Night “ there were parts that showed that the Nazi’s were heartless and didn’t think about things Twice. One example Of the Nazi’s heartlessness was when they used babies as targets. …show more content…
They treated the kids as if they were adults and didn’t care if your death was fast or slow or if you suffered or didn’t. “But the third rope was still moving; being so light the child was still alive”(47). It shows that they did not care how you died. This is important because it shows how they moved on no matter what. This is critical for the reader because it Happens more than once in the book. In conclusion through out “Night” there were parts that showed that the Nazi’s were heartless and didn’t think twice about anything. A second example of the Nazi’s heartlessness was when they hung a
In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, he talks about his life alongside his father during the holocaust. As he and his father are separated from the rest of their family and forced to jump from camp to camp we see the harsh treatment put on to them from the SS soldiers in charge of the camp(s). The book surrounds father and son relationships greatly as well as highlighting the danger of indifference and of course the holocaust. We can see that through this novel the purpose is to bring awareness to the horrors of the holocaust and how in the end the indifference of the SS soldiers as well as that of the Jews in the camps was more dangerous than Hitler himself. Very early on in the camps the SS soldiers had begun to force the Jews to take the side of indifference towards one another.
The literature of Language arts we can remember all of the people that their lives were taken in the Holocaust. Because it was one of the worst things that has happened to world history. Elie Wiesel was a survivor and later talked about his struggles in the camps in his memoir Night and his two speeches accepting his Nobel peace prize. The book Night helps us remember that the lifes were taking in the Holocaust.
The memoir Night was written by Marion Wiesel he routes the traumatic experiences he went through at the Holocaust. The Holocaust happened between the years 1933 and 1945. The Holocaust was created by Hitler and he wanted to “exterminate” the jews race by sending them to concentration camps and torturing them. In Chapter 1 a bunch of foreigner jews were was taken to a concentration camp in the middle of the forest and and they got tortured the dug a huge hole then when they were done digging the hole they would line them up and shoot them one by one and they threw baby’s
Night centered around WWII and Hitler, a notorious dictator filled with destruction, death, and delusion that killed six million innocent Jews. During his reign of terror over Europe during World War II, he created one of the world's worst mass genocides. With no remorse, he was able to murder millions. It seemed unethical and illegal. It seemed inhumane.
The father, the first to figure it out, said "Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possbile, even these crematories" (Weisel,24) Night also shows what cruelity does to people, evil begats more evil. On the train to Buchenwald, a father dies becuase his son wanted his bread even when the father wanted to share.
Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel, is a moving and powerful account of the Holocaust. The book provides a first-hand account of the horrors of the concentration camps and the impact they had on the author’s life. In order to convey the emotional impact of his experiences, Wiesel uses imagery to evoke pathos, the appeal to emotion, causing the readers to feel sad but also hopeful. A way that Wiesel uses pathos in Night in order to create a sense of dread and sadness for his audience is by using vivid imagery of the horrible crimes he witnessed. “A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children.
Night In Night by Elie Wiesel the Jews suffer greatly because of the Holocaust. The Germans show great prejudice against the Jews. This unfounded hatred causes the Jews to experience a loss of innocence once at Auschwitz. The Germans forced them to become people they aren’t.
Nazis dehumanize their victims in many horrific and unimaginable ways. In Elie Wiesel’s book Night the Nazis dehumanize the prisoners physically, mentally, and emotionally. The prisoners are physically dehumanized by going to forced death marches, receiving awful food, and getting beaten. The food the prisoners receive barely satisfies their hunger and it is not enough to give them the strength they require to work and survive.
In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, there are many scenes that display the horrifying nature of the death camps in Germany that Jews were sent in. These terrifying scenes further explored the themes that lay hidden in this puzzle of a book. One such scene is when Elie’s father was ambushed by the leader of the group Idek for being in his way. Furthermore, his father lay there, taking the beating and being used as an example for the inmates. However, the key idea that is being displayed is the dehumanization that was shown.
In the poignant memoir Night, the author Elie Wiesel uses compelling dramatic irony to portray the oblivious and discerning reactions towards the Nazi’s attempt to further dehumanize the Jewish people. On the seventh day of Passover, the German officers start arresting prominent leaders of the Jewish community. Quickly followed by the prohibition of Jews leaving their own residence, owning any sort of valuables and the requirement that all Jews must wear a yellow star. Despite the destitute conditions put upon the Jews in the Sighet ghetto, Elie’s father, Shlomo, tries to reassure the people of his community by advising:
In the novel night, Elie Wiesel discusses how the Nazi army dehumanizes the Jews. In the beginning, Moishe the Beadle came back and told them that “Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns” (6). The army took those lives of innocent babies, that one day could have been something. They treated the babies like they were clay targets.
Fear is Destructive Fear causes people to makes judgements. It’s what makes people cautious and skittish, mostly in unsafe situations. Without fear people’s life would be at risk. Throughout the memoir Night fear builds up over time, starting when the Germans taking over Sighet, they slowly start to take over their lives.
The memoir written by Elie Wiesel, Night, is illustrating the Holocaust, the even which caused the death of over 6 million Jews. Auschwitz, the concentration camps, is responsible for over 1 million of the deaths. In the memoir Night, Wiesel uses the symbolism of fire, and silence to clearly communicate to the readers that the Holocaust was a catastrophic and calamitous event, and that children should never be involved in warfare. Elie Wiesel enters Auschwitz at the age of 15, and witnesses’ horrific events as a prisoner in Auschwitz, including the deaths of numerous children, and the beating and death of his own father. All these inhumane things were done just because Adolf Hitler wanted to cleanse the German society of the Jews.
Imagine knowing your fate ahead of time. That single moment would be stuck in your head, replayed every second to prevent it. This would obstruct your feeling of morals, making you only focus on your own survival. Nothing would get in your way of trying to survive. During the Holocaust, many people were faced with this moment when they stepped in a concentration camp.
In the book Night by Ellie Wiesel there are many words that can describe the horrible events that went on during the Holocaust. There was a tremendous amount of evil that the Germans displayed during this time period. One of the most soul opening quotes from Ellie was, “Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes … children thrown into the flames" (Wiesel 51). The people in this book that committed these crimes were always so corrupt. It is extremely wrong to kill any person, but it is especially wrong to kill babies that still have so much more of their life to live.