During 1939 to 1945 six million innocent people, primarily Jews were gathered like cattle and taken to various death camps. Germany created these camps in order to get rid of those they considered inferior. In the death camps prisoners were starved/worked to death, while others were killed by their captives or even by their own fellow prisoners. Elie Wiesel author of Night one of the many forced into these camps went on to survive and even win the Nobel Peace Prize and presenting one of his most powerful speeches. Night is a memoir, which clearly portrays with the power of imagery, ethos, and prisoner experiences during the camps how people will be drastically changed when they experience torture as a result of isolation. Wiesel in Night accurately describes how isolation is the reason atrocities happened to prisoners in the camp, While also …show more content…
explaining who are responsible for the isolation. In his Nobel speech he includes modern day examples of silence and goes on to argue that we must not stay silent and fight for those who think they are forgotten. Wiesel does this to support his idea, that silence is not gone and is still a problem. Isolation affected many in the camps in different ways.
Those who were separated earlier on would experience hallucination resembling “Look at this fire, this terrible fire, have mercy on me”(25). Ms.Schacter experienced these hallucinations as a result of being separated from her husband and two older sons. The separation “shattered her”(24) causing her to become a prophet and foreshadow the flames to come. Elie the main character of Night after arriving to the camp notices dark smoke smelling like corpses coming out of chimneys in the camps. He soon realizes the truth that “the world is not interest in [them], [that] today anything is possible including the crematorium(33). Experiencing the atrocities first hand gives Elie ethos allowing him to realize the truly there alone, and abandoned by humanity. Later on Elie see’s “children [being] thrown into the fire”(33). This is the breaking point where Elie’s “soul had been invaded- and devoured-by a black flame”(37). The world allowing these actions to happen caused many to experience traumatizing scenes and resulting is loss of innocence as Elie did as a result of
isolation. The Nazis created the isolation by separating them but the world supported it by staying silent. The outcome of this was not only Nazi and the world killing people but also Jewish people killing themselves. Prisoners were changed because of isolation to the point where they become emotionless. Prisoners would go day to day only caring about surviving and their next meal. When selection happened many would be marked for elimination “standing abandoned by the whole world”(72). People were guilty of this abandonment including fellow prisoners. In the camps when a prisoner dies “the soup taste like corpses” this is a simile describing how prisoners live at the expense of others. This isolates them because they need to survive longer than their friends, now they only care about themselves. This isolation didn't just happen to random prisoners who didn't know each other but actual family members. Elie would sometimes have thoughts of abandoning his father for his own survival. Elie never did anything close to what a son did beating his dad for scraps while the father yelled “meir, meir my little meir, don't you recognize me”(101). Prisoners turning against each other is the result of experiencing Night. is including by Wiesel to be the symbol for isolation. When a prisoner experiences Night they are left in the darkness not being able to see anyone and only acknowledge their own existence. Wiesel today strives to promote unity in order to fight silence. Today it is not the Jew suffering but Christians in the Islamic world. ISIS a terrorist group with incentives to wipe out all Christians in Islam. Christians are being driven out of their homes, ancient Christian temples burned to the ground. They are being persecuted just as the Jews were. Many in the Islamic world stay silent because of fear. Those who stay silent support the isolation now being forced onto Christians. Countries are helping by attacking the ISIS while others discard it as another terrorist group that isn't their problem. Wiesel fights to help those in need even if they are not Jews. Wiesel fights because anytime someone stays silent, anytime people are isolated, anytime someone ignores the truth the innocent who died in the Holocaust are being forgotten.
Did you know you could kill 6,000,000, and capture about 1 million people in one lifetime? In “Night” Elie Wiesel talks about the life of one of those 7 million people, going into detail about the living conditions, and also talking about the experiences in the book that happened to him. The book explains how it felt to be in a concentration camp, and how it changed a person so much you couldn’t tell the difference between the dead and the living. Elie Wiesel is the author and he was only around 15 when this story happened, so this is his story and how the events in the story changed him. So in the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, “Elie,” is affected by the events in the book such as losing faith, becoming immune to death, and emotionally changing throughout the course of the book.
An estimated 11 million people died in the Holocaust. 6 million were Jews. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel tells his story as a Holocaust survivor. Throughout his book he describes the tremendous obstacles he overcame, not only himself, but with his father as well. The starvation and cruel treatment did not help while he was there. Elie makes many choices that works to his advantage. Choice plays a greater factor in surviving Auschwitz.
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
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.
Elie Wiesel once said, “Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.” The book Night is a tragic story written by a holocaust survivor. It includes many of the things Jews endured in concentration camps, including the fact that many young women and children were burned in a crematorium simply because the Germans did not see them as fit enough to work. In Wiesel’s novel Night, Wiesel uses the motifs fear, silence, and optimism.
So as the morning Sun rose. The light beamed on Christopher's face. The warmth of the sun welcomed him to a new day and woke up in a small house in Los Angeles. Christopher is a tall, male, that loves technology and video games. He stretched and went to the restroom it was 9 o'clock and he was thankful it was spring break and didn’t have to go to school. Christopher made his way to the kitchen trying not wake up his parents and made himself breakfast. He served himself cereal Honey Bunches of Oats to be exact with almond milk. Then he took a shower and watched some YouTube videos before doing his homework.
The book Night is about the holocaust as experienced by Elie Weisel from inside the concentration camps. During World War II millions of innocent Jews were taken from their homes to concentration camps, resulting in the deaths of 6 million people. There were many methods of survival for the prisoners of the holocaust during World War II. In the book Night, there were three main modes of survival, faith, family, and food. From the examples in the book Night, faith proved to be the most successful in helping people survive the holocaust.
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
Night at the beginning of the novel is described as though Elie was having a difficult time realizing that everything that had happened to
Throughout the Nobel Peace Prize award winner Night, a common theme is established around dehumanization. Elie Wiesel, the author, writes of his self-account within the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. Being notoriously famed for its unethical methods of punishment, and the concept of laboring Jews in order to follow a regime, was disgusting for the wide public due to the psychotic ideology behind the concept. In the Autobiography we are introduced to Wiesel who is a twelve year old child who formerly lived in the small village of Sighet, Romania. Wiesel and his family are taken by the Nazi aggressors to the Concentration camp Auschwitz were they are treated like dogs by the guards. Throughout the Autobiography the guards use their authoritative
The Holocaust will forever be known as one of the largest genocides ever recorded in history. 11 million perished, and 6 million of the departed were Jewish. The concentration camps where the prisoners were held were considered to be the closest one could get to a living hell. There is no surprise that the men, women, and children there were afraid. One was considered blessed to have a family member alongside oneself. Elie Wiesel was considered to be one of those men, for he had his father working side by side with him. In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, a young boy and his father were condemned to a concentration camp located in Poland. In the concentration camps, having family members along can be a great blessing, but also a burden. Elie Wiesel shows that the relationship with his father was the strength that kept the young boy alive, but was also the major weakness.
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.
It is reported that over 6 million Jews were brutally murdered in the Holocaust, but there were a very few who were able to reach the liberation, and escape alive. There were many important events that occurred in Elie Wiesel’s Night, and for each and every event, I was equally, if not more disturbed than the one before. The first extremely disturbing event became a reality when Eliezer comprehended that there were trucks filled with babies that the Nazi’s were throwing the children into the crematorium. Unfortunately, the sad truth of the murdering babies was clearly presented through, “Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there, […] babies”, (Wiesel, Night, 32). This was one of the most disturbing events of the narrative for myself and truly explained the cruelty and torture of the Holocaust.
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