Appearance vs. Reality In the novel Night (1956), Elie Wiesel illustrates the horror that he faces through the Holocaust. Wiesel’s drive to get out of the concentration camp with his father alive causes him to be directed through all of these challenges. When it seems that everything is lost time after time again, he starts to lose himself and his humanity. Wiesel’s detailed descriptions of the Jews denying their inevitable truth that had shown right in front of them is also later shown that not only did the Jewish community, not face their own reality, however Elie Wiesel finds it hard to face his reality through this tough time. The play Oedipus Rex (420) by (Sophocles) also demonstrates the tragedy of how sensitive our mentality can …show more content…
Elie Wiesel uses many metaphors to make two points in his book. One is the obvious situation right in front of him and another is a small point that he puts in there which shows at times how his mind is slowly slipping away and into insanity. Some of the quotes prove that the appearance of struggling situations can’t always be a reality to us. “In contrast, they believe denials of intentional transgressions by defendants, who warm and honest appearance is not compatible with such malfeasance.” (Zebrowitz 1). This quote can demonstrate the play, Oedipus Rex, however this also is just one quote in a Leslie Zebrowitz article “Appearance does matter” where he describes the affects our brain mechanisms and their automatic reactions to superficial qualities on the appearance of things. Zebrowitz explains how facial expressions and other appearances can affect our social and political behavior. His article allows you to grasp the idea that not everything is what it looks like. The appearance of objects or people is not the reality of …show more content…
reality of things can only be explained in many different ways. No one will for sure will get a straight answer. The answer depends on someone’s experience in the situation. For a difficult situation or a crazy experience may cause a terrible and large distance from actual reality. “Our tacit assumption that we perceive the world as it is has become so deeply ingrained that is it very hard indeed to appreciate that our image of reality is a construction of within our own mind. Even when we intellectually accept the fact, as eventually we must , it is still extremely difficult not to see the image we have created as “out there”” (Quincy 4). We may seem that we want to be informed of our reality or act as though we already know everything that is going on around us. We find it too difficult to accept everything so we create our own reality which could be much worse or finer than the situation we are that are at hand. In conclusion, reality is very hard to grasp in certain situation, especially hard times. We go through the difficult times sleep walking, waiting to wake ourselves up with the reality that we have improvised. Or reality could hit us harder than ever and could ruin us and drive us to our own destruction. Night is a book that demonstrates it very well by showing the Jewish people of Elie Wiesel’s small town didn’t accept the reality that was placed right in front of them, this caused Elie Wiesel, along with his other people not face the