“Nothing good ever comes from violence,” Martin Luther King Jr. Violence comes in all shapes and forms, from mass murdering, hacking, and torturing, but all of these types are present in three books. The somber and troubled societies are filled with unhealthy conditions such as destroyed environments, constantly being watched, and dead bodies everywhere. The three books 1984 by George Orwell, Feed by M.T Anderson , and the Night by Elie Wiesel are intertwined with their dystopian societies consisting of violence, power(of people and the government), and unhealthy living conditions.
First, 1984 takes place in a futuristic society where the government controls everyone and everything. History is rewritten to make sure no rebellions occur “And
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if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth,” (Orwell 18). The entire government constantly makes sure no one defies the party and even have kid spies watching parents and adults making sure they don’t break any ridiculous law. The main character Winston has enough and believes in the Brotherhood which is said to be an organization that believes what the government is doing is wrong and the big brother and the party are corrupt. However, Winston makes love with a girl named Julia and doing this is prohibited by the government. Watching their every move is their tv’s in their rooms “Two characters in the book Winston and Julia Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer, though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing, “(Orwell 6). Nevertheless, the government and society control everything wanting power and when Winston becomes suspicious and upset about the party, the party, most notably O’brien shows his ruthlessness to keep the power in balance “He took his stand opposite the chinless man, and then, at a signal from the officer, let free a frightful blow, with all the weight of his body behind it, full in the chinless man's mouth,” (Orwell, 63). Throughout the book 1984 it depicts the corruption and power the government possesses, and the violence issued to keep order in a dystopian society. Next, Feed is centered around a boy named Titus who lives in a futuristic world where 70 percent of the population has feeds.
Feeds are an advanced form of networking placed into your brain which gives you the internet, answers, adds, and communication with others. In their society most tasks are done effortless. For example, every single house were in boxes and cars in tubes. The cars could get you anywhere you wanted to go in a matter of minutes. The outside part of the word was deteriorating and the environment was as if it was forgotten about or not necessary to the people. Titu’s feed was hacked and he received images of the real environment, “I saw fields and fields of black, it was this disgusting black shit, spread for miles. I saw walls of concrete fall from the sky and crush little wood houses. I saw a furry animal trying to stand up on its legs but the back ones were broken or not working, and needles coming out of the sand. Its jaws were open. I saw long cables going through the sea,” (Anderson, 30.4). Consequently, the environment was forgotten about however, there are a few people remaining in the society who understand the tragedy of the land and the government's power, “Of course, everyone is like, da da da, evil corporations, oh they're so bad, we all say that, and we all know they control everything. I mean, it's not great, because who knows what evil shit they're up to(Anderson, 10.6) No matter how bad everything in the atmosphere around them, everyone …show more content…
was in denial even when they realized it wasn’t right. In addition, Violet(Titus girlfriend whos feed was hacked) needed her feed repaired but the corporation would not fix it “We're sorry, Violet Durn. Unfortunately FeedTech and other investors reviewed your purchasing history, and we don't feel that you would be a reliable investment at this time. (Anderson, 49.17). This shows the absolute control the companies have over people and decide the life and death of person, and because they wouldn't help Violet she eventually dies. The book Feed displays the deteriorating environment, industries control, and not an importance for learning. Night a short book explaining the enconcountes of a young jewish boy surviving the holocaust.
The biography about Elie Wiesel shows the brutality of Nazis sending millions of innocent jews to concentrations camps, separating families, and killing millions. Unlike the other books this one is real but it still shows the part of our society where it is cruel, unlivable, and violent. Elie and his whole family is seperated once Nazis come and take them from their homes. Elie remains with his dad but unfortunately his father dies and he encounters some of the most violent and despicable acts of Nazis, “Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns,”(Wiesel, 6). Innocent people were killed just because they were jewish and this is a society where no one would ever want to live. The soldiers(Nazis) were in charge and controlled everything in order to torture and kill al the jews. "Keep her quite! Make that madwoman shut up. She’s not the only one here …" She received several blows to the head, blows that could have been lethal. (Wiesel, 26). The Jews were slaughtered one by one, exiled, poisoned, yet nothing was done to stop it. Compared to the other two books the life of someone in this society is unfair and undeniably awful. Not only were millions killed but the Nazis got what they wanted by having absolute control of Jews
physically and mentally, “One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.”(Wisel, 115). Thus, Night is an account of the holocaust where Nazis had control over the people, the fear instilled upon society, and brutal deaths. These three books share their dystopian societies including power over the people, violence, and unsafe living conditions. Feed the environment is left in ruins, and dirt similar to Night where the environment is unsafe with the unliving conditions and the concentrations camps filled with debri and poisonous gas. Correspondingly, 1984 the environment is a lie and everyone is watching your every movement. Additionally, violence is present in all of these books from mass killing sprees to beatings, to hacking. In each book it is a dystopian society with many flaws and uncertain futures.
Elie Wiesel writes about his personal experience of the Holocaust in his memoir, Night. He is a Jewish man who is sent to a concentration camp, controlled by an infamous dictator, Hitler. Elie is stripped away everything that belongs to him. All that he has worked for in his life is taken away from him instantly. He is even separated from his mother and sister. On the other side of this he is fortunate to survive and tell his story. He describes the immense cruel treatment that he receives from the Nazis. Even after all of the brutal treatment and atrocities he experiences he does not hate the world and everything in it, along with not becoming a brute.
Six million Jews died during World War II by the Nazi army under Hitler who wanted to exterminate all Jews. In Night, Elie Wiesel, the author, recalls his horrifying journey through Auschwitz in the concentration camp. This memoir is based off of Elie’s first-hand experience in the camp as a fifteen year old boy from Sighet survives and lives to tell his story. The theme of this memoir is man's inhumanity to man. The cruel events that occurred to Elie and others during the Holocaust turned families and others against each other as they struggled to survive Hitler's and the Nazi Army’s inhumane treatment.
and humanity. Wiesel shows how the Jews mistreated and were mistreated with word choice and situational irony. Elie, the main the character in the book, gives the reader a personal perspective of being a Jew during the Holocaust. Being a Jew was difficult since the Nazis not only mistreated them, but also gave them false hope which contributed to their dehumanization.
The Holocaust was one of the most horrific and dehumanizing occurrences that the human race has ever endured. It evolved around cruelty, hatred, death, destruction and prejudice. Thousands of innocent lives were lost in Hitler's attempt to exterminate the Jewish population. He killed thousands of Jews by way of gas chamber, crematorium, and starvation. The people who managed to survive in the concentration camps were those who valued not just their own life but others as well. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author of the novel, Night, expressed his experiences very descriptively throughout his book. When Elie was just fifteen years old his family was shipped off to the concentration camps where they were separated from each other. He and his father manage to stay together, which was a small sense of comfort in a very uncomfortable situation. At one point in the book, Elie considers running for the electric fence to avoid the long agonizing death he thought was inevitable. However, Elie thinks of how he could not leave his father to be alone and he decides against it. In a sense, his father is his motivation to keep fighting for his life. Elie found purpose through his undying love and compassion for his father. When driven by emotions and given a purpose one can survive even in the worst of conditions.
Dehumanization Through Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, is an account about his experience through concentration camps and death marches during WWII. In 1944, fifteen year old Wiesel was one of the many Jews forced onto cattle cars and sent to death and labor camps. Their personal rights were taken from them, as they were treated like animals. Millions of men, women, children, Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, disabled people, and Slavic people had to face the horrors the Nazi’s had planned for them. Many people witnessed and lived through beatings, murders, and humiliations.
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book, Tender is the Night, Fitzgerald writes “He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized”. This idea of how people could become almost unimaginably cruel due to dehumanization corresponds with the Jews experience in the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the ruthless massacre of Jewish people, and other people who were consider to be vermin to the predetermined Aryan race in the 1940s. One holocaust survivor and victim was Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of Night. Wiesel was one of the countless people to go through the horrors of the concentration camps, which dehumanized people down to their animalistic nature, an echo of their previous selves. Dehumanization worsens over time in Night because of how the Jews treated each other, and how Elie changed physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Elie Wiesel has gone through more in life than any of us could ever imagine. One of my favorite quotes from him says, “To forget a holocaust is to kill twice.” In his novel “Night” we are given an in-depth look at the pure evil that was experienced during the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. We see as Wiesel goes from a faithful, kind Jewish boy to a survivor. As he experiences these events they change him drastically. We first see a boy with a feeling of hope and ignorance as his hometown is occupied and he’s moved into the ghettos. Then as he’s transferred to a concentration camp he questions his faith and slowly loses a sense of who he once was. But all of this puts him in an important position, he knows that he must share with the world what
Holocaust survivor Abel Herzberg has said, “There were not six million Jews murdered; there was one murder, six million times.” The Holocaust is one of the most horrific events in the history of mankind, consisting of the genocide of Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, mentally handicapped and many others during World War II. Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany, and his army of Nazis and SS troops carried out the terrible proceedings of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel is a Jewish survivor of the Nazi death camps, and suffers a relentless “night” of terror and torture in which humans were treated as animals. Wiesel discovers the “Kingdom of Night” (118), in which the history of the Jewish people is altered.
In his book Night Mr. Elie Wiesel shares his experiences about the camps and how cruel all of the Jews were treated in that period. In fact, he describes how he was beaten and neglected by the SS officers in countless occasions. There are very few instances where decent humans are tossed into certain conditions where they are treated unfairly, and cruel. Mr. Wiesel was a victim of the situation many times while he was in the camps. Yet he did not act out, becoming a brute himself, while others were constantly being transformed into brutes themselves. Mr. Wiesel was beaten so dreadfully horrible, however, for his safety, he decided to not do anything about it. There were many more positions where Mr. Wiesel was abused, malnourished, and easily could have abandoned his father but did not.
During the Holocaust many people were severely tortured and murdered. The holocaust caused the death of six million Jewish people, as well as the death of 5 million non-Jewish people. All of the people, who died during this time, died because of the Nazis’: a large hate group composed of extremely Ignoble, licentious, and rapacious people. They caused the prisoners to suffer physically and mentally; thus, causing them to lose all hope of ever being rescued. In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie went through so much depression, and it caused him to struggle with surviving everyday life in a concentration camp. While Elie stayed in the concentration camp, he saw so many people get executed, abused, and even tortured. Eventually, Elie lost all hope of surviving, but he still managed to survive. This novel is a perfect example of hopelessness: it does not offer any hope. There are so many pieces of evidence that support this claim throughout the entire novel. First of all, many people lost everything that had value in their life; many people lost the faith in their own religion; and the tone of the story is very depressing.
The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel gives an in depth view of Nazi Concentration Camps. Growing up in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Wiesel, a young Jewish boy at the innocent age of 12, whose main focus in life was studying the Kabbalah and becoming closer in his relationship with God. In the memoir, Elie Wiesel reflects back to his stay within a Nazi Concentration Camp in hopes that by sharing his experiences, he could not only educate the world on the ugliness known as the Holocaust, but also to remind people that by remembering one atrocity, the next one can potentially be avoided. The holocaust was the persecution and murder of approximately six million Jew’s by Aldolf Hitler’s Nazi army between 1933 and 1945. Overall, the memoir shows
Elie Wiesel not only spoke on his behalf but also on behalf of all the victims of the Holocaust. His words do not only pertain to his situation but to the situations of every world crisis that has been failed to be acknowledged. Elie’s words can be related universally and makes you question, where were these people that are supposedly suppose to be the voices for the silent? The world thrives for equality but how can a world grow and unit if the people are silent. Elie makes valid points throughout the novel that can be referred to other situations in the past and are to come in the future.
Mr. Wiesel had intended this book to describe a period of time in his life that had been dark and sorrowful. This novel is based on a survivor of the greatest Holocaust in history, Eliezer Wiesel and his journey of being a Jew in 1944. The journey had started in Sighet, Transylvania, where Elie spent his childhood. During the Second World War, Germans came to Elie and his family’s home town. They brought with them unnecessary evil and despair to mankind. Shortly after young Elie and thousands of other Jews were forced from their habitats and torn from their rights of being human. They were sent to different concentration camps. Elie and his family were sent to Auschwitz, a concentration and extermination camp. It would be the last time Elie sees his mother and little sister, Tzipora. The first sights of Auschwitz were terrifying. There were big flames coming from the burning of bodies and the crematoriums. The Jews had no idea of what to expect. They were not told what was about to happen to them. During the concentration camp, there was endless death and torture. The Jews were starved and were treated worse than cattle. The prisoners began to question their faith in God, wondering why God himself would
[3]George Orwell wrote the novel 1984 to criticize the new trend of totalitarianism that was rising up; which, in his time period, would have been Hitler 's reign and then Stalin 's rise.
My first reaction when reading this book was simply “How could the world have not known about the crimes being committed by the Nazis?” In the novel, Elie Wiesel describes his first night in Auschwitz as “…life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke…the faces of the children…the flames…silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live…never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself.” Amazingly, the world had no notion of what the Nazis were doing, and didn’t stop them until over 11million people were killed. This was because the Nazi party did not make it known to t...