Different works by different authors can occasionally echo the same themes, events, or tones. This is displayed in the book Night by Elie Wiesel and the poem “I Sit and Look Out” by Walt Whitman. The works both talk about how the authors either went through pain, suffering, death, and abuse, or saw it first hand. Night shows this by Wiesel talking and sharing about his experiences in the concentration camps during WWII, and how the Germans abused him and his fellow Jews and treated them like forgotten cattle. “I Sit and Look Out” shows the pain and suffering of people when Whitman reveals his compassion on the people in this world who are mistreated, and abused. Specific lines in the poem “I Sit and Look Out” can be directly compared to ideas or stories from Night. …show more content…
The line from “I Sit and Look Out” by Walt Whitman, “I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;” (13-16) can directly mirror a book of similar style and tone.
The direct correlation can be found in the book Night when we read how Wiesel is maltreated and degraded by the SS officers and other Germans in the concentration camps. Wiesel also deciphers this in the book by recounting stories about Jews turning their backs on their own to save themselves. The last comparison seen of this quote in Night is when Wiesel mentions to the audience that Gypsies and leaders of other countries or areas also received the terror of imprisonment in the camps not just Jews, just like when Whitman talked about not just the poor having the recollection of persecution, but others as
well. Another line in the poem that can be directly associated to Night is “I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny I see martyrs and prisoners;” (9). This line explains how some corrupt fascists and leaders have only one objective, total endowment, and they will do anything to anybody to obtain it, just like Hitler before and during WWII. Night illustrates this by explaining how Weisel experiences the direct impact of Hitler's thirst for power by having people abuse and capture Jews, Gypsies, and other degraded people just to get control of most of Europe and, in his eyes, eventually the world. Together, both these documents illustrate that people who lust for power are in some cases capable of doing anything, even mass murder, to acquire it. One last line from “I Sit and Look Out” that reflects the same ideas as Night is “All these All the meanings and agony without end, I sitting, look out upon, See, hear, and am silent.”(17-18). Whoever this poem is about witnessed these horrid occurrences happen and did nothing to try and stop it. This is what Wiesel thought about himself and his father and their survival while painful suffering occurred all around them. Wiesel didn't do anything to stop the agony and it got so normal that he didn't even notice the distress or even the death and killing. Both Wiesel and the person in the poem do nothing to help the people around them and therefore they allow the people around them to die or suffer. In conclusion, many works can be compared and made one by the mood, tone, and content of the documents. This can be seen by comparing the suffering that happened to the people in the specific compositions. Certain people’s lust for power can go so deep they willing wage war or commit mass murder to guarantee power, is also illustrated. Finally, there are explanations of people only thinking about themselves or just sitting and watching people around them suffer and die because they didn’t do anything to help. Overall, it is shown that putting two works together and making them one can result in a better understanding of the content and even in some cases makes a better story.
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.
Night is an autobiography by a man named Eliezer Wiesel. The autobiography is a quite disturbing record of Elie’s childhood in the Nazi death camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald during world war two. While Night is Elie Wiesel’s testimony about his experiences in the Holocaust, Wiesel is not, precisely speaking, the story’s protagonist. Night is narrated by a boy named Eliezer who represents Elie, but details set apart the character Eliezer from the real life Elie. For instance, Eliezer wounds his foot in the concentration camps, while Elie actually wounded his knee. Wiesel fictionalizes seemingly unimportant details because he wants to distinguish his narrator from himself. It is almost impossibly painful for a survivor to write about his Holocaust experience, and the mechanism of a narrator allows Wiesel to distance himself somewhat from the experience, to look in from the outside.
A story of a young boy and his father as they are stolen from their home in Transylvania and taken through the most brutal event in human history describes the setting. This boy not only survived the tragedy, but went on to produce literature, in order to better educate society on the truth of the Holocaust. In Night, the author, Elie Wiesel, uses imagery, diction, and foreshadowing to describe and define the inhumanity he experienced during the Holocaust.
...istory, while at the same time provides a sense of remembrance and seminal value, as well as understanding of the true events that took place during the holocaust. Wiesel subconsciously uses the theme of witnesses in his book Night, which demonstrates the daily struggles and harsh environment experienced by those who were trapped at the camps. Although the book only accounts for one person’s experience, all of the others who suffered are in a way intertwined. Although on the broad spectrum millions have been affected by the holocaust, Elizer’s narration accounts for each of them, showing they had their own story, their own life they left behind, their own conflicts, both internally and with the Nazis. Night, by Elie Wiesel encompasses the will to survive, the witnessing of historical events, the personal accounts of those affected, and remembrance of the holocaust.
The unimaginable actions from German authorities in the concentration camps of the Holocaust were expected to be tolerated by weak prisoners like Wiesel or death was an alternate. These constant actions from the S.S. officers crushed the identification of who Wiesel really was. When Wiesel’s physical state left, so did his mental state. If a prisoner chose to have a mind of their own and did not follow the S.S. officer’s commands they were written brutally beaten or even in severe cases sentenced to their death. After Wiesel was liberated he looked at himself in the mirror and didn’t even recognize who he was anymore. No prisoner that was a part of the Holocaust could avoid inner and outer turmoil.
The autobiography Night by Elie Wiesel contains similarities to A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. These works are similar through the struggles that the main characters must face. The main characters, Elie Wiesel and Lieutenant Frederic Henry, both face complete alterations of personality. The struggles of life make a person stronger, yet significantly altering identity to the point where it no longer exists. This identity can be lost through extreme devotion, new experience, and immense tragedy.
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.
Wiesel says this because he wants to keep the Holocaust from happening again. He probably meant that it is selfish to keep something to yourself when it is important and you can prevent it from happening. When he was being tortured, the other citizens did nothing to help. Maybe he just wants to make up for what others did not do for him.
Between the covers of the book Night is the story of a boy who had to endure the constant threat of death. He had to watch as other perished, family, friends, strangers, everyone. Yet his God had done nothing. He remained unmoved and silent. How could a God he was taught to look upon when anguished allow such savagery to
It is so strenuous to be faithful when you are a walking cadaver and all you can think of is God. You devote your whole life to Him and he does not even have the mercy set you free. At the concentration camp, many people were losing faith. Not just in God, but in themselves too. Elie Wiesel uses many literary devices, including tone, repetition and irony to express the theme, loss of faith. He uses tone by quoting men at the camp and how they are craving for God to set them free. He also uses repetition. He starts sentences with the same opening, so that it stays in the reader’s head. Finally, he uses irony to allude to loss of faith. Elie understands how ironic it is to praise someone so highly, only to realize they will not have mercy on you. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses tone, repetition and irony illustrate the loss of faith the prisoners were going through.
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.
Some of the most fabled stories of our time come from individuals overcoming impossible odds and surviving horrific situations. This is prevalent throughout the Holocaust. People are fascinated with this event in history because the survivors had to overcome immense odds. One, of many, of the more famous stories about the Holocaust is Night by Elie Wiesel. Through this medium, Wiesel still manages to capture the horrors of the camps, despite the reader already knowing the story.
Wiesel uses the emotional trauma and inhumane experiences of survivors to explain how effective Treblinka was as an example in his speech.Throughout the Second World War, any of the poor, unfortunate souls who were sentenced to concentration camps would have lost their dignity, personal possessions, and most importantly, their loved ones. Those who believed that America would save them were wrong. The tragedy of the S.S. St. Louis was America and Cuba’s first ruling on Jewish immigrants hoping to flee from Europe. America, England, and France should have foreseen the oncoming storm that would be Hitler’s blitzkrieg against all of Europe. The entirety of this era full of hate, murder, fascism, and nationalism, should have never began in the first place.
“The Perils of Indifference” is a speech that Elie Wiesel delivered in Washington D.C. on April 12, 1999, exactly 54 years after his release from the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald by American troops. Both Congress along with President Clinton and Mrs. Clinton were present to hear the speech. Wiesel spoke briefly about what it was like in the concentration camps, but he focused mostly on the topic of Indifference. His speech was effective in its use of rhetoric to convince the audience that as individuals and as a world culture we cannot afford to become indifferent to the suffering around us.
When people are placed in difficult, desolate situations, they often change in a substantial way. In Night by Elie Wiesel, the protagonist, Elie, is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he undergoes many devastating experiences. Due to these traumatic events, Elie changes drastically, losing his passion in God, becoming disconnected with his father, and maturing when it matters most.