Examples Of And Every Single One Was Somebody By Phil Chernofsky

How Does One Say The Unspeakable

Can you image living in a time when 6 million innocent people were killed in a span of twelve years? The Holocaust was a time when Hitler and his anti semitic Nazis were on a mission to kill all Jews that lived in Europe. The Holocaust began in 1933 when Hitler was appointed Chancellor and started Dachau the first concentration camp. How does one explain the unthinkable? Writers say the unspeakable about the Holocaust through several techniques such as repetition, symbols, and words not being able to express feelings.

The unthinkable can be explained through a process of repetition, by repeating the same word multiple time the words become more meaningful. The book And Every Single One Was Someone written by Phil Chernofsky, repeats the word Jew six million times representing the six million Jews that were killed in the holocaust. Repetition in this book is stating the unthinkable making the word Jew more meaningful by representing every life lost in the holocaust. Another example of repetition stating the unthinkable is in Man’s

An example of Symbols being used is in Night by Elie Wiesel he says ¨never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.¨ These sentences are symbolizing the babies that he saw die and then be burned in the fire. Another example in the book night is “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.” this uses imagery to create a vision in your head of what it was like to be there. The symbloizm in this sentnce is that the nazi’s are changing the way that he thinks about his faith by doing this to him. He is using flames as a metaphor to describe himself rethinking his faith. Symbolism is used to explain the unthinkable by having a deeper meaning than what you are reading on the