...When Elie recites his story in the book Night, he talks about the inhumane the SS officers and how they endured cruel treatment. Elie also talks about how the SS officers split their family and the torture he endured in the concentration camp Auschwitz. Wiesel uses imagery all throughout the book to emphasize the horrible treatment of the camp. Imagery, a visually descriptive or figurative language plays a big role in describing the scenery and the treatment. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel used imagery to explain how the SS officers treated the prisoners brutally and dehumanized them. When SS officers took Elie and his family to the concentration camp he had to go through the physical and mental torture. The SS officers treated the prisoners less than...
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...In reference to his experience during the Holocaust and why he wrote night, author Elie Wiesel says without the experience he would have not become "… A witness who believes he has a moral obligation to try to prevent the enemy from enjoying one last victory by allowing his crimes to be erased from human memory" (Wiesel ). The Holocaust is a memorable event that occurred in Germany and Eastern Europe in 1933 threw 1945. This tragedy was runned by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party, killing a massive amount of Jews, homosexuals, Catholics, poles, and gypsies. Hitler strongly believed that the Jews were responsible for economic struggles also known as the great depression. Many people also believed they were to blame for the loss of war. In the...
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...suffered while living in the ghettos, soon to reach the camps they also suffered there as well. The encounters with Dr. Mengele were unbearable too. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night is very important especially the fact that it accurately describes what really happened during the Holocaust. One of these many reasons is that Wiesel was an actual survivor of the Holocaust. His descriptions of his experiences in the ghettos, encounters with Dr. Mengele and his trouble with small amounts of food in the camp greatly make us only able to imagine what he went through. Elie Wiesel in his memoir Night, along with other victims of the Holocaust was faced with many obstacles while living in the ghettos, encounters with Dr. Mengele and forced labor. Living in the ghettos was the first step in being dehumanized. Elie Wiesel describes these experiences in his memoir Night. One example of these experiences that were described by Elie was that decrees were to be made in the Jewish ghettos. “We were no longer allowed to go into restaurants or cafes, attend the synagogue and must be in at sic o’ clock.”(Wiesel 9). These are for the Jews in the ghettos prior to full liquidation. Another example is when Elie describes that living space in ghettos was uncomfortable, but highly appreciated. “Night fell, twenty people gathered in my backyard.”(Wiesel 10). Elie Wiesel’s father sat with groups of people to discuss what was happening in the ghettos and what was going to become of them. Furthermore as soon as...
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...The book ¨Night¨ by Elie Wiesel is a nonfiction essay about his own personal life during the Holocaust and death march, which he both lived and survived through until his liberation. When the Germans first invaded Romania in 1940 Elie and his Family of his mother, father,and 3 sisters)were living there during that time period. The Germans would go on to persecute and dehumanize the Jewish people along with other groups such as Homosexuals,Gypsies,and the Jehovah’s witnesses. The Germans´ first thing on the agenda to accomplish after invading Romania was to create a separation of the Jewish people into what was referred as ghettos. On Page 11 of Night, the writer gives us a description of the Ghetto they were put into. For instance, Elie comments, ¨Little by little, life returned to ´Normal´ ¨The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with fear.¨ This act shows to the Jewish people that they do not belong to the “normal” part of society and the barbed wire just symbolizes their separation this can really make them question themselves as if people and the religion that they worship. Another example of how Germans showed a separation between the Jewish people and the ¨Other People¨ was on the night of Kristallnacht Nov 9, 1938-Nov 10.The night of Kristallnacht is a night in which Jewish businesses, homes,and places of worship (Synagogues) were vandalized looted and in some cases burnt to the ground....
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...The book Night is centered in a time period which was highly unfavorable for anyone not of German heritage. Racial unequality and prejudice was thrown enourmously towards the Jews. They were forcefully tossed into concentration camps against their will where they slaved for the sake of their life. In the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel, Eliezers is dehumanized and treated like an animal for being nothing but a young Jewish boy and day by day loses hope of experiencing a better tomorrow. While being held hostage inside the concentration camp walls the aspiration and belief of their lord removing them from misery declines more each and every day. For example, Eliezers explains, "Behind me, I heard the same man asking : 'For God's sake, where is...
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...Joshua Nkwocha Mr. Jensen Period 6 23 January 2009 A Shameful Blemish On the Face Of Humanity Around the time of the Great Depression, 1939 to 1945, Jewish people in the entire western world, especially in Germany, Poland, and Romania, were tormented and were helpless victims of hatred. Although anti-Semitism was already present at this time, the Holocaust greatly amplified this form of racism. Holocaust is the act of genocide by fire. Elie Wiesel is a survivor who provides living testimony to this time period. He depicts and relays the hardships and brutalities that he and his family faced through his historical non-fiction novel, Night. During the time of the great depression, in Germany, a dictator by the name of Adolf Hitler and his regime began his reign of terror and anti-Semitism, and his attempt to rid the world of the Jewish race. Hitler believed Jewish were scum and blamed them for all the economic problems in Germany. He also wanted to create his idea of the “perfect race”, Aryans. He believed that the “ blue eyed, blonde haired people of that race were the most elite and noble race, and Jews being virtually the opposite of that were unworthy of living. This period is called the Holocaust. Jewish people were affected in many a way by this hatred; politically, economically, intellectually, socially, and culturally. Elie’s father is a shoe maker but a well respected man in the community. In fact, he is the leader, so to speak of their town of Sighet in...
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...The first book that I read this summer was Escape From Camp 14, by Blaine Harden. The book retells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk’s escape from Camp 14. Camp 14 is a prison for the political enemies in North Korea, and in the camp Shin was forced to survive torture, starvation, malnutrition, and grueling hours of manual labor since he was a child. In a constant battle zone, Shin fought for food and was brainwashed by the camp into believing nothing existed beyond the fences he was trapped in. On January 2, 2005 Shin escaped from the North Korean political camp and was able to see beyond the fences when he was 23 years old. Shin then dedicated his life to sharing his story and is the only person to ever escape any of the North Korean political...
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