The theme of this novel has been to never discriminate nor formulate judgements or assumptions without having the right information or knowledge. This theme has been effectively used throughout the entire novel, yet is primarily used in the way Seth and Eli’s judgements and assumptions become demolished after learning the truth about the Droughtland and gaining their own experiences among the Droughtlanders. This created a strong message in which we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover without reading the pages within, shouldn’t label or stereotype others and ensure social equality. The author communicates this theme clearly with Eli when he first lays his eyes upon Triskelia, the prime rebel base for the Triskelians in the Droughtland. He says and feels like this about the base:
“‘That’s Triskelia?’ Eli wanted to weep. He wanted to get off his horse and fall to his knees and weep, and then when he was finished weeping, he wanted to head east and away from there as fast as Saber could carry him. He would live in the mountains, or in the foothills, but not in that cesspool. ‘That’s it?’” (Mac, 212)
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Eli needs to be explained by Trace the rationale behind why the base is covered with sicks and their filthy remains of life, which is to ensure disguised Keyland Guards can be filtered out and eliminated with ease. Trace expounded that it cloaks the real base and allows for the rebels to live without the fear of Keylanders discovering their base. The theme was communicated well here since Eli also in the beginning of the novel, wondered how people like the Droughtlanders, sick and poor, and would be able to build such an organization. Although, has now been shown, they aren’t only unhealthy and indigent people, but intelligent and resourceful in their ways of
Elie witnessed the most tragic events ever recorded in history, Elie lost hope in humanity along the way but he was one of very few to survive. “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears,” (Wiesel 112). Elie had been dramatized by the things he had witnessed he didn’t have any tears or fear left in him.
At the end of the novel, upon arriving to Buna, Elie’s father was feeling weak. He tried to take care of him but he could not help but resent
The Jews in the town were forced into a small ghettos in Sighet. Next, they are herded into cattle cars. After days and nights of cramming inside the car, exhaustion and starvation, they arrived in Birkenau. When they arrived in Birkenau, Elie and his father were separated from his mother and sisters. The Jews are evaluated whether they should be killed immediately or put to work.
They were our first oppressors. They were the first faces of hell and death.” (pg. 19) When the soldiers took them away from their home to be put in a camp of labor or death was something they never thought would happen to them. Elie did not realize the journey they were going to go through until he saw the reactions of his parents’ when the soldiers came for them.
Elie has experienced the same things that happened in the last night of every place he went to. He grew mentally to prepare for what happened every time; although, physically he was unprepared. The
One’s moral values could be another’s worst nightmare. The Nazis didn’t think that the Jews were worthy of living and viewed them as not human. Therefore they didn’t deserve to be treated as humans. There were many example of how The Nazi’s morals alienated the Jews. The Jew’s experience alienation in the ghettos, during transportation and especially in the concentration camps.
Elie felt like his father gave up on him, on the thought of possibly seeing his wife and daughters, of freedom, which they knew would be close. Elie wanted to stick up for his father if it meant it kept him alive, but slowly, it began to annoy him, he knew his father was helpless. “He was right, I thought deep down, not daring to admit it to myself. Too late to save your old father… You could have two rations of bread, two rations of soup” (111). Although he soon regretted thinking that awful thought, he knew two years ago, he would’ve never thought of such a thing.
Annotated Bibliography Introduction: Examine different kinds of advertisements and the problem at hand with how they perpetuate stereotypes, such as; gender, race, and religion. Thesis: The problem in society today is in the industry of social media. In efforts to attract the eye of the general population, advertising companies create billboards, commercials, flyers and other ads with stereotypes that are accepted in today’s society. Because of the nations’ cultural expectation for all different types of people, advertisement businesses follow and portray exactly what and how each specific gender, race, or religion should be.
“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. ”(Tennessee Williams). Night by Elie Wiesel, published originally in 1956. This book is about a holocaust survivor and his story on how he lived through the holocaust. Freedom and confinement is an aspect that can determine someone’s sanity.
In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when Moishe the Beadle told the Jew community about the cruelty of the SS,” Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns” (weisel 7). This is inhumanity because the Nazis are killing little, innocent, defenceless babies. As the author describes his experiences, many other examples of inhumanity are revealed. Two significant themes related to inhumanity in the book Night by Elie Weisel are loss of faith and disbelief.
People today could say that stereotypes aren't such a factor in life, but they don’t notice what's really around them. The book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, gives a realistic example of how stereotypes rule society. The Outsiders is about two groups of kids, the Socs, and the greasers. The story takes place in the east side of Tulsa Oklahoma, in the 1960’s. The main character Ponyboy is part of the greaser group, with Johnny, Darry, Dally, Sodapop, Two-Bit, and Steve.
To find a man who has not experienced suffering is impossible; to have man without hardship is equally unfeasible. Such trials are a part of life and assert that one is alive by shaping one’s character. In the autobiographical memoir Night by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, this molding is depicted through Elie’s transformation concerning his identity, faith, and perspective. As a young boy, Elie and his fellow neighbors of Sighet, Romania were sent to Auschwitz, a macabre concentration camp with the sole motive of torturing and killing Jews like himself. There, Elie experiences unimaginable suffering, and upon liberation a year later, leaves as a transformed person.
17. Discuss the section where Elie is beaten. Out of nowhere, Idek comes up to Elie and begins to beat him. The beating goes on for a few minutes, but to Elie it felt like forever.
Eli's life was changed drastically in a matter of a couple hours. He saw and went through a lot causing him to lose his religious faith. He isn’t the only one who lost his belief. Others like his father began to lose his faith and sense of hope. At the age of 14 Eli and his family were evacuated from their homes into a ghetto afterwards they are sent to a concentration camp better known as Auschwitz.
Early on in the book, Eli actively avoids becoming one of them, but he struggles with this as Night goes on. He starts to have brutish thoughts as he sees another son abandon his father for the sake of survival, but quickly decides not to. However, Eli’s morality finally breaks with his father’s death. Although on the surface, Eli feels grief and wishes that his father could still be alive, within himself, Eli finds a feeling of relief, as if a burden had been lifted from him. This shows that the longer Eli spent in the concentration camp, the weaker his moral sense became.