Imagery In The Night

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During the holocaust there were over six million jews killed. They were gassed, beaten, and tormented. The inhumanity if these camps were unbelievable. And hearing the stories from the book “ Night” and seeing the pain in the movie “ The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” is bad enough let alone going through it.

Everything that happened to people during the holocaust can be engraved into the prisoners head. Watching people slowly die or burned even beaten would be alot to take in. Imagery is a key device in the book “Night” by explaining the heart ache they went through. “ I saw it with my own eyes children in flames” (Wiesel,30). Having this image in the head of the reader sets the tone of how serious these camps are. The movie “ Boy in the …show more content…

People were beaten for little things and it wasn't just the officers beating the prisoners, the prisoners would also kill each other over food or because they simply stepped in the wrong place. “ Excuse me can you tell me where the lavatories are ? He dealt my father such a clout that he fell to the ground.” ( Wiesel 36-37). Reading the book “Night” shows how cruel the camps really were and the prisoners had no idea what they were stepping into. The movie also gives examples of the conflict happening in the camps. “ The way Bruno’s father treats the servants.” ( Herman). The father in the movie was a powerful Nazi and was in charge of a camp and would willings kill and destroy the families of the Jews.

The prisoners in the camps would have to live through several conditions with barely any clothes, no blankets to sleep under, and no heat to keep them warm to to keep cool. The book “ Night” uses setting as a way to develops the theme of the story. “ The snow fell thickly. We were forbidden to sit down or even move.” ( Wiesel 30). During this time many people were killed because they were so weak at this point, and were forced to eat the snow off of each other backs. In the movie “ The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” Bruno’s family makes him and his sister move to Auschwitz. ( Herman). WW2 was the largest war in human history many of the soldiers in Germany had to move to control all of the camps and kill Jews because

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