Intolerance is the unwillingness or refusal to accept or acknowledge another person’s ideas and/or rights. Intolerance is shown to people due to socio-economic status, level of education and age, but is often and the most common forms of intolerance are racial intolerance (racism) and religious intolerance. Intolerance is conveyed in many texts through a number of literary and visual techniques and is demonstrated in the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, cartoon Tweets on Religious Intolerance by Angelo Lopez and Snake by DH Lawrence. Night by Elie Wiesel is a fiction memoir following the protagonist Eliezer, who is a stand-in character for the author, and his family in their journey through concentration camps in the Holocaust. The book mainly explores religious intolerance and within this explores man’s inhumanity to man through Wiesel’s sustained figurative language and descriptive imagery. At the beginning of the book Eliezer and his family are moved via cattle cars with other Jewish people. Towards the second half of the book an Eliezer and his father are once again transported on cattle cars through several German towns. On both trips the Jewish people were vilified and treated like animals by the German soldiers. Wiesel uses the sustained figurative language using words such as ‘dogs’ and other animalistic references throughout the text to demonstrate how in the eyes of the soldiers they are no longer seen as people. ‘You will all be shot like dogs’. Descriptive imagery is also used to explain how the civilians were also inhumane to the prisoners, with a description of the prisoners being ‘beasts of prey unleashed…sharpening their teeth and nails’ as the citizens spurred it on. This explains the inhumanity that not only the s... ... middle of paper ... ...iddle. Language techniques have been used with the several words that are displayed on characters shirts and objects. These words enhance the anger and ferocity of the text. Spiteful words such as ‘kill’, ‘blame’ and ‘sinners’ are repeated throughout the image, empowering the body language and visual techniques that the text demonstrates. The novel Night by Elie Wiesel, cartoon Tweets on Religious Intolerance by Angelo Lopez and Snake by DH Lawrence all display different forms of intolerance that is present in our society. Religious and racial intolerance is demonstrated via a number of literary and visual techniques such as figurative language and composition. Through the use of these techniques, the composers have each been able to present a new aspect of intolerance and teach the reader about inhumanities and cruelty that are imposed on the people around us.
The book, Night, by Eliezer (Elie) Wiesel, entails the story of his childhood in Nazi concentration camps all around Europe. Around the middle of the 20th century in the early 1940s, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi army traveled around Europe in an effort to exterminate the Jewish population. As they went to through different countries in order to enforce this policy, Nazi officers sent every Jewish person they found to a concentration camp. Often called death camps, the main purpose was to dispose of people through intense work hours and terrible living conditions. Wiesel writes about his journey from a normal, happy life to a horrifying environment surrounded by death in the Nazi concentration camps. Night is an amazingly
Night by Elie Wiesel was a memoir on one of the worst things to happen in human history, the Holocaust. A terrible time where the Nazi German empire started to take control of eastern Europe during WWII. This book tells of the terrible things that happened to the many Jewish people of that time. This time could easily change grown men, and just as easily a boy of 13. Elie’s relationship with God and his father have been changed forever thanks to the many atrocities committed at that time.
In Elie Wiesel’s Night, he recounts his horrifying experiences as a Jewish boy under Nazi control. His words are strong and his message clear. Wiesel uses themes such as hunger and death to vividly display his days during World War II. Wiesel’s main purpose is to describe to the reader the horrifying scenes and feelings he suffered through as a repressed Jew. His tone and diction are powerful for this subject and envelope the reader. Young readers today find the actions of Nazis almost unimaginable. This book more than sufficiently portrays the era in the words of a victim himself.
In Eliezer Wiesel’s novel “Night”, it depicts the life of a father and son going through the concentration camp of World War II. Both Eliezer and his father are taken from their home, where they would experience inhuman and harsh conditions in the camps. The harsh conditions cause Eliezer and his father’s relationship to change. During their time in the camps, Eliezer Wiesel and his father experience a reversal of their roles.
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. Throughout the memoir, Wiesel demonstrates how oppression and dehumanization can affect one’s identity by describing the actions of the Nazis and how it changed the Jewish
Through segregation, loss of identity, and abuse, Wiesel and the prisoners around him devolve from civilized human beings into savage animals. The yellow stars begin separation from society, followed by ghettos and transports. Nakedness and haircuts, then new names, remove each prisoner’s identity, and physical abuse in the form of malnourishment, night marches, and physical beatings wear down prisoners. By the end of Night, the prisoners are ferocious from the experiences under German rule and, as Avni puts it, “a living dead, unfit for life” (Avni 129). Prisoners not only revert to animal instincts, but experience such mental trauma that normal life with other people may be years away.
The 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. This is Wiesel’s “dark time of life” and through his journey into night he can’t see the “light” at the end of the tunnel, only continuous dread and darkness. Night is a memoir that is written in the style of a bildungsroman, a loss of innocence and a sad coming of age. This memoir reveals how Eliezer (Elie Wiesel) gradually loses his faith and his relationships with both his father (dad), and his Father (God). Sickened by the torment he must endure, Wiesel questions if God really exists, “Why, but why should I bless him? Because he in his great might, had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death? (67). Throughout the Holocaust, Wiesel’s faith is not permanently shattered. Although after his father dies, his faith in god and religion is shaken to the core, and arguably gone. Wiesel, along with most prisoners, lose their faith in God. Wiesel’s loss of religion becomes the loss of identity, humanity, selfishness, and decency.
The ground is frozen, parents sob over their children, stomachs growl, stiff bodies huddle together to stay slightly warm. This was a recurrent scene during World War II. Night is a literary memoir of Elie Wiesel’s tenure in the Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel created a character reminiscent of himself with Eliezer. Eliezer experienced cruelty, stress, fear, and inhumanity at a very young age, fifteen. Through this, he struggled to maintain his Jewish faith, survive with his father, and endure the hardships placed on his body and mind.
The SS officers refer to the prisoners as animals: ““Faster you filthy dogs!” We were no longer marching, we were running. Like automatons. The SS were running as well, weapons in hand” (85). The officers do not hesitate to make such degrading, animalistic remarks. Non-chalantly, the officers differentiate themselves from the prisoners through their speech as well as their actions. Even Wiesel recognizes that his fellow inmates have lost their human identity because of the pain and violence they suffer from. He recounts, “Abruptly, our doors opened. Strange-looking creatures, dressed in striped jackets and black pants, jumped into the wagon” (28). Wiesel’s first impression of the prisoners are that they cannot be human; they are all dressed alike, and Wiesel’s observations lead him to believe that they have lost their human identity and are nothing but creatures. The prisoners, due to their inhumane status, are forced to go without sufficient amounts of food. Wiesel describes the violent fight that ensues when a few scraps of bread are tossed in a crowded wagon, “Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs. The worker watched the spectacle with great interest” (100). While the men fighting for the food demonstrate their selfish survival instincts, more disturbingly, the worker enjoys watching. Wiesel is able to confirm the loss of humanity as he witnesses
Elie Wiesel, winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, wrote Night with the notion for society to advance its understanding of the Holocaust. The underlying theme of Night is faith. Elie Wiesel, for the majority of this work, concerns the faith and survival of his father, Chlomo Wiesel. The concept of survival intertwines with faith, as survival is brought upon Elie’s faith in his father. Both Elie and Chlomo are affected in the same manner as their Jewish society. The self-proclaimed superman race of the German Nazis suppress and ultimately decimate the Jewish society of its time. Elie and Chlomo, alongside their Jewish community, were regarded as subhumans in a world supposedly fit for the Nazi conception. The oppression of Elie and Chlomo begins in 1944, when the Germans constrain the Jews of Sighet into two ghettos. During the time of Nazi supremacy, Elie and Chlomo are forced to travel to various concentration camps, including Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald.
While describing an experience that a friend told him about, Wiesel writes “they shot the prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks” (Wiesel, pg. 7). The words used in this quote are used individually on a daily basis, but the power they hold shows through in this quote. When describing a traumatic experience, many people would often use superfluous words to exaggerate their point; Wiesel on the other hand, takes almost a minimalistic approach ...
Irish Playwright, George Bernard Shaw, once said, “The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.” Inhumanity is mankind’s worse attribute. Every so often, ordinary humans are driven to the point were they have no choice but to think of themselves. One of the most famous example used today is the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night demonstrates how fear is a debilitating force that causes people to lose sight of who they once were. After being forced into concentration camps, Elie was rudely awakened into reality. Traumatizing incidents such as Nazi persecution or even the mistreatment among fellow prisoners pushed Elie to realize the cruelty around him; Or even the wickedness Elie himself is capable of doing. This resulted in the loss of faith, innocence, and the close bonds with others.
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.
Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, a young Jewish boy, who tells of his experiences during the Holocaust. Elie is a deeply religious boy whose favorite activities are studying the Talmud and spending time at the Temple with his spiritual mentor, Moshe the Beadle. At an early age, Elie has a naive, yet strong faith in God. But this faith is tested when the Nazi's moves him from his small town.
All types of intolerance are different, but they all have the same effect on most of society. Many people do not know how to react, and are left bewildered. A recent event