Writing about an event that has occurred can be hard for some writers, to write about the atrocities of the Holocaust authors used several different writing techniques. Many survivors of the Holocaust have yet to tell their stories to the world because of the unspeakable memories in their minds. The Holocaust was a cruel time that was from 1933 to 1945. The biggest memory of the Holocaust is the killing of 11 million people in total, 6 million Jews as well as 5 million non Jews. The leader who did this was Adolf Hitler. Through the years, Hitler slowly made his way to doing intolerable things to the Jews. Hitler had the Jews put into concentration camps where the prisoners were starved, tortured, and worked to death. With few survivors of the Holocaust one may think, how does an author, or survivor …show more content…
The very few authors or survivors who have memories of the Holocaust used many approaches such as powerful imagery, figurative language, repetition, and powerful word choice to describe the unforgettable.
One of the techniques that authors used to try and describe the horrid events of the Holocaust was powerful imagery. Elie Wiesel states in his excerpt in Doc A “Never shall I forget"....small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky." To put that experience into words that children are burning can affect one because Elie Wiesel used such a meaning and unforgettable scene, with the right words so that reader could get the image Elie wanted to send out. In Primo Levis’ excerpt,he states, "...temperature below freezing, wearing only a shirt, underpants, cloth jacket and trousers, and in one’s body nothing
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.
A statement from the nonfiction novella Night –a personal account of Elie Wiesel’s experience during the Holocaust—reads as follows: “How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou. Almighty, Master of the universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers, end up in the furnaces” (67). War is a concept that is greatly looked down upon in most major religions and cultures, yet it has become an inevitable adversity of human nature. Due to war’s inhumane circumstances and the mass destruction it creates, it has been a major cause for many followers of Christianity, Judaism, and other religions to turn from their faith. Followers of religion cannot comprehend how their loving god could allow them to suffer and many devout
Elie Wiesel knows how to take advantage similes and metaphors to express the terror during the holocaust. In Elie's biography, Elie tells the audience about an incidence where an example of ghastly behavior was shown. He writes, "Two lambs, with a hundred wolves lying in wait for them. Two lambs without a shepherd- a gift" (43). In this excerpt, Elie symbolizes three things: the lambs, the wolves and the shepherd. The entire quote talks about the savageness and wanting, shown by the wolves (which represents the prisoners), towards the lambs (which substitutes for the cauldrons of soup) that was left unguarded by the shepherd...
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.
... things up to the worst of it all. The readers can take away that just because you believe something different then somebody else, doesn’t make them or you a bad person or different in any way. This topic shows that long before the concentration camps, Jews were being singled out and treated terribly. The study of the Holocaust matters to show people what happened so that others can learn from it and learn to accept people no matter what their religion. It must not be forgotten because the people who suffered in it should be remembered. It was a terrible time that should never happen again. All of the laws passed leading up to the Night of the Broken kept increasing Hitler's power and ability to persecute the Jews because there was little reaction to his actions; the violence and persecution increased leading to the final solution because of this indifference.
As early as age thirteen, we start learning about the Holocaust in classrooms and in textbooks. We learn that in the 1940s, the German Nazi party (led by Adolph Hitler) intentionally performed a mass genocide in order to try to breed a perfect population of human beings. Jews were the first peoples to be put into ghettos and eventually sent by train to concentration camps like Auschwitz and Buchenwald. At these places, each person was separated from their families and given a number. In essence, these people were no longer people at all; they were machines. An estimation of six million deaths resulting from the Holocaust has been recorded and is mourned by descendants of these people every day. There are, however, some individuals who claim that this horrific event never took place.
In the Holocaust, there were things that happened that were poignant. Elie Wiesel has made a book that showed things that happened during the holocaust. In the book, Night, there are quotes that are poignant and significant.
To begin with the holocaust had a great impact in history even though it was a time of disaster, murder, and discrimination. It was a time in which Adolf Hitler,German politician and Nazi party leader, wanted all Jews suffering or dead. Adolf Hitler turned everyone against the Jews because he believed that they were to wealthy and too powerful so he wanted to eliminate all of them. The Jews went through a lot of suffering and pain. The German soldiers which took commands from their leader, Adolf Hitler, put some Jews to work and killed others. Many Jews didn't get to work they were killed instantly. All women were separated from the man and woman were mostly killed instantly only some got the opportunity to work. The some ways that the jews were killed is that they were put into gas chambers by tons or shot by soldiers. Jews were also dying by starvation dehydration soldiers would not give them enough food or water. They would only want those with blue eyes and blonde hair they discriminated all the others. Soldiers would not only kill the Jews but torture them for anything they did. The Jews would be transported from camp to camp walking even in the worst weather conditions which also many died from it.
For my book report, I read Day by Elie Wiesel. The narrator’s name is only mentioned once when he states, “I am Eliezer, the son of Sarah” (Wiesel 73). Throughout the book, the narrator tells two stories. One story is about his past and another story is about his current life. In the past, the narrator lived through the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, everyone he knew died when he was very young. These deaths caused him to have a lot of suffering that haunts him for the rest of his life because he lives with the guilt of being the only survivor. The narrator cannot move on from his painful past, so he honestly does not care about his life. During the present time, Eliezer sees a cab coming his way. There is a possibility for him to avoid it,
For me, hope without memory is like memory without hope” (pg. 2, para. 3). This suggests that memory is one of the most powerful tools, one our whole race cannot live without. Wiesel uses imagery to develop the central idea. This can be seen in the following line, “Like the body, memory protects its wounds. When the day breaks after a sleepless night, one’s ghosts must withdraw; the dead are ordered back to their graves” (pg. 4, para. 10). This quote shows imagery and the central idea, the image is, after a sleepless night ghosts would withdraw and the dead go back to their graves. Wiesel also used repetition in “Hope, Despair, and Memory”. This can be seen in the following line, “After the war we reassured ourselves that it would be enough to relate a single night in Treblinka, to tell of the cruelty, the senselessness of murder, and the outrage born of indifference: it would be enough to find the right word and the propitious moment to say it, to shake humanity out of its indifference and keep the torturer from torturing ever again. We thought it would be enough to read the world a poem written by a child in the Theresienstadt ghetto to ensure
In conclusion the Holocaust was a horrible thing. It created a world war that could only be stopped by someone winning. The Jews and other prisoners got caught in the crossfire of this world war. The Jewish people and many other prisoners that were in the camps face starvation, selection, transport, and many other
For instance when the author writes about the woman it the cattle car being beaten. This is a perfect of example of human nature in shock. The horrible conditions make the Jewish in shock and leave the human nature of them to take action. That is why they beat the woman, due to the benefit for them not listening of the screaming. Also one example of silence when Elie says, “we stood stunned, petrified” (p.31). This example does not only literally mean they stayed silent, but it also shows how this fear of the authority could cause these people not to do anything and standby. This was the turning point of how the Jewish citizens were going to get through this Holocaust, and how human nature kicked in and makes life, everyman for himself. Also when Elie Wiesel is interviewing with Oprah, he talks about how women and children were sent to gassing chambers with ease. He talks about how they stood in line to face their death. This shows how the silence was present in them waiting. There was no fighting back due to the fear of them or their children being killed. So this example is perfect for showing the terror that the jews faced and how they stayed
During the rule of Adolf Hitler, many children who were Jewish lived a very frightening and difficult life. They never were given the love and compassion that every child needs and deserves growing up. The Holocaust is a story that will continue to be shared till the end of time.
The Holocaust was one of the most tragic and trying times for the Jewish people. Hundreds of thousands of Jews and other minorities that the Nazis considered undesirable were detained in concentration camps, death camps, or labor camps. There, they were forced to work and live in the harshest of conditions, starved, and brutally murdered. Horrific things went on in Auschwitz and Majdenek during the Holocaust that wiped out approximately 1,378,000 people combined. “There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.” –Fidel Castro
How can someone fully understand a tragedy such as the Holocaust? Many say the event ineffable to anyone who wasn’t there to begin with, but people are still striving to achieve complete or near complete comprehension. In order to do this people have used multiple media like books and recordings but the one that gives “the greatest illusion of authenticity” is movies. The purpose of Holocaust-filmmaking is to help people get a grasp on what it felt like to be in the middle of such a horrific thing as the Holocaust. If this isn’t done, then the true emotions won’t influence the audience who won’t find a way to preserve the history of the Holocaust and memories that took place in those awful times will be lost forever. Many films of the Holocaust