...and in a world full of these sinful beings, it's impossible to live a picture perfect life free of suffering. Throughout the book Night, Elie Wiesel uses symbolism, imagery, and figurative language to display the unavoidable nature of pain and suffering. Symbolism was used throughout the novella to prove that suffering is inevitable. Elie's suffering starts to intensify once he reaches the concentration camp, and his suffering Is accompanied with a change in character; after a single night in the camp, Elie claims that his old, religious self "had been consumed by the flames," (Wiesel 37) which was likely to happen to him at some point with him being a victim of the holocaust. After the dentist's office was shut down, elie was glad that his gold crown was safe; he begins to think about what he could do with it, like buy food one say, and he describes his desire for food, specifically bread, as "all that mattered to [him]," (Wiesel 52) which shows...
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...the ocean does not become dirty.” -- Mahatma Gandhi Hopelessness sometimes just engulfs the mind into not caring or thinking about God because of the disturbing visuals encountered. In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie tells how he thought the ocean got too dirty during the Holocaust by explaining his experience. Him and his family are sent to Auschwitz, along with others, where they are separated by gender and chosen to go straight to the crematoria or to work themselves to death. While many died after months of never-ending torture, the narrator's camp is liberated with Elie still alive. Throughout this terrible experience, the author develops the...
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...Night “The sign read Auschwitz”, With this simple quote taken from the story Night and already you know what its about. The Holocaust. An event that shocked the world, and only those who survived could tell the world the real story. This essay will be looking into the symbolism in the story Night. The main protagonist refers to the flames of the crematory as the death of his faith. One of the first things he sees when he arrives to the concentration camp is a burning pit of babies. This sight hits him so hard that the disbelief in this event causes him to question if there is a god. Not only were the babies burned on the spot, but those who were too strong and those who were eak would go next. The more and more people who were burned the more Elie's faith in god would dwindle. Mrs. Snatcher had seen fire before their arrival to the camp, and because the others couldn’t see fire they all assumed she was possessed. However later after the horrors of the camp were revealed Elie’s father asked if he remembered her. This could have been taken as an omen or warning but it was far too late....
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...How would you feel, if you got treated like an animal? In the book, Night by Elie Wiesel was a young Jewish boy name Elie Wiesel and his family who get forced into camps during the holocaust. Ellie explains the horror that him, his family and other jews went through during this time. The theme of Night is when people get treated like an animal, they lose their identity. How would you feel if you could feel any pain? When the kapos were beating Elias, he could feel the pain. “The kapos were beating us again, but I no longer felt the pain. A glacier wind was enveloping us. We were naked holding our shoes and belts¨ (Wiesel 36). This quote explains inhumanity because the kapos were beating people so much that they couldn’t feel the pain anymore and then after getting beaten they had to stand naked holding their stuff in the cool. How could someone hurt or kill one their family member for something so little: ¨Meir… my little Meir! Don't you recognize me… you're killing your father. I have bread for you too for you too. The old man mumbled something, groaned, and died. His son searches him, took the crust of bread, and began to devour...
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...person. The tragic and terrifying event continually haunts the world today. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, describes his terrible sightings during the Holocaust. He was fifteen when his family, along with himself, arrived at Auschwitz, a death camp. Elie was separated from his mother and three sisters, but remained with his father. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses foreshadowing, symbolism, and tone to portray the inhumane conditions that occurred during his experiences and the ripple effect of harm it caused. Elie uses foreshadowing to hint that something terrible is coming. “Moishe was not the same. The joy in his eyes was gone. He spoke only of what he had seen. But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen. Some even insinuated that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things” (7). Moishe has seen what was hurdling towards them. He had already lived through it. The...
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...“It began in images and it ended in symbolism.” – B. W. Powe. There are many examples of symbolism in the novel Night. Today, we will examine the use of the word “corpses”, the use of fire, and the spoon and the knife Elie’s father gave to him. The first example of symbolism in Night is the use of the word “corpses”. “Corpses”, in this situation, does not necessarily mean a dead body. In this case, “corpses” represents the death of the author’s (Elie Wiesel) belief in God. The day Elie and his father arrived at the camp, Elie’s faith slowly began to go away; the Nazis were burning babies in a ditch. His faith in God was truly lost the night the child, Pipel, is hanged. Everyone that witnessed the hanging thought, “Where is God? Where is He?”...
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...Eliezer’s Character Change The Holocaust was a devastating time in history where Jews were forced into concentration camps and worked, starved, or burned to death. One of the most influential writers who lived during this time period was Elie Wiesel. Wiesel’s Night is a memoir depicting the journey of a young boy, Eliezer, who experienced the Holocaust at a very young age. The Nazis occupied Hungary in the spring of 1944, and Eliezer and his family are deported to a concentration camp. While at several different concentration camps, Eliezer faces a variety of different situations, and he learns to adapt to his circumstances. As his father becomes weaker and weaker throughout the memoir, Elie starts to develop mixed emotions for him. During...
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...English 10 Rough Draft Essay In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the author uses symbolism, and metaphors to show the theme loss of faith. Both Elie and his father express signs that they have lost faith in the Jewish religion. This is important because religion is supposed to help people through hard times, and give them faith in the world around them. The first example of this is when all of the Jewish civilians are forced to wear the yellow Star of David. When Mr. Wiesel was asked what the community should do about being shamefully forced to wear the star. His response was rather nonchalant stating. “The yellow star? So what? It’s not lethal…” (11) This shows that Mr. Wiesel is not holding the offense to his religion in high regard, showing...
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...silent? In Night, Elie Wiesel uses symbolism, irony, and imagery to illustrate how silence takes over when fear sets in. When Elie gets to the concentration camp there is an immediate change in his personality. The fear of the camp sets into Elie and he starts to lose his voice. Right away Elie’s father asks to use the bathroom and the officer slapped him. “What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal’s flesh.”(p.39). Elie says that yesterday he would have stood up for his father. This quote is symbolizing just how much the fear of the concentration camp had changed Elie in just a short amount a time. His voice was dissipating along with his courage. By the end of the book Elie has lost his voice completely. When...
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...extermination camps. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel tells the story of himself as a young Jewish boy born in Romania, who in 1944, was forced into ghettos with the rest of the Jewish citizens and later deported, along with his father, to the Nazi’s largest killing center, Auschwitz-Birkenau. While living through this day-to-day horrifying basis, Elie begins to live with overwhelming fear and total alienation, as well as his increasing loss of faith on God and whether God is even existent or not for His lack of participation in trying to help the Jews. Although Elie manages to survive his long and frightening journey through both labor and death camps, his faith was never at the high-most air-reaching level as it dramatically changed throughout the course of the novel because of his disturbing experiences in witnessing cremated human beings, executions, and the going through the loss of his entire family. Prior to being deported to the camps, Elie’s faith was extremely high as he was well-established with his studies in mysticism and the cabbala and his great involvement with religion through prayers. Elie is finding a great interest in wanting to work with Moshe the Beadle to help increase his knowledge in his studies because “during the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple. One day I asked my father to find me a master to guide me in my studies of the cabbala” (1). Wiesel applies diction such as “Talmud...
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...yourself in Auschwitz. Find yourself behind barbed wire, paralyzed by fear of the unknown. Now, think about this in reality. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, the reader is let into the mind of a changed person; one who will forever remember such atrocities committed by Germany from 1933-1945. Throughout this short book, it seems as though it goes by so fast. From a peaceful God loving child, to a rebellious and miserable 15 year old boy who now denies him, Night shows how the NSDAP changed the minds of people forever through hate and murder for 12 long years. This text is filled with deep similes, metaphors and allusions, especially symbolism. The author uses the symbols fire, a violin, and train cars to portray a sense of hopelessness,...
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...Wilson 1 English 12 Mrs. Conrad 1/23/15 Question 2 Essay In the book Night, by Elie Wiezel, there is one scene where a young boy is hung in front of many spectators. Elie describes that they have seen many hangings but none of them where quite like this one. In history there was no event to compare to the Holocaust, that’s why some say the hanging of the Pipel, the young boy, represents the Jewish people during this time. The next few paragraphs will show the symbolism of the hanging to the Jews in the Holocaust. Wiesel goes out of his way in the book Night to put a scene in our mind, a young Jewish Pipel being hung in front of thousands of his own people. He describes this event as being different from the many that he had previously seen. “I never saw a single victim weep… Except once.” (Wiesel 63) It was one thing for a man to be hung but it was a much different situation for a child. This in some way resembles the event of the Holocaust. Innocent people were being killed for an act that was not to be found at fault, religion. As the viewers came to the gallows people were morning and asking where was God. “For God’s sake, where is he.” (Wiezel 65) When we look back on the event today we my wonder the same things ourselves about the Holocaust, where is God? How could something so terrible and inhumane happen to so many people? Wiesel also describes the Pipel’s actions before the hanging. “He too was Wilson 1 tortured.” (Wiezel 64) He was beaten just as the...
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...Lydia Wilson Wilson 1 English 12 Mrs. Conrad 1/23/15 Question 2 Essay In the book Night, by Elie Wiezel, there is one scene where a young boy is hung in front of many spectators. Elie describes that they have seen many hangings but none of them where quite like this one. In history there was no event to compare to the Holocaust, that’s why some say the hanging of the Pipel, the young boy, represents the Jewish people during this time. The next few paragraphs will show the symbolism of the hanging to the Jews in the Holocaust. Wiesel goes out of his way in the book Night to put a scene in our mind, a young Jewish Pipel being hung in front of thousands of his own people. He describes this event as being different from the many that he had previously seen. “I never saw a single victim weep… Except once.” (Wiesel 63) It was one thing for a man to be hung but it was a much different situation for a child. This in some way resembles the event of the Holocaust. Innocent people were being killed for an act that was not to be found at fault, religion. As the viewers came to the gallows people were morning and asking where was God. “For God’s sake, where is he.” (Wiezel 65) When we look back on the event today we my wonder the same things ourselves about the Holocaust, where is God? How could something so terrible and inhumane happen to so many people? Wiesel also describes the Pipel’s actions before the hanging. “He too was Wilson 1 tortured.” (Wiezel 64) He was...
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...Fiction is all about what an author creates, his imagination may blow the reader’s mind away.There are many fictional books that give joy to the children and excitement to the elderly. An example of fiction filling in the gaps of history can be found in the selections of Fences, Of Mice And Men, The Things They Carried, and Night. Which these books filled in the gaps by using symbolism, exaggeration, and the act of just making things up, to just get their theme and point across to the reader. The definition of a symbol is a representation of something. Fictional books fill the gaps by using symbolism. For example, in the book Night by Elie Wiesel, there were many factors of symbolism throughout the book, but the main one would be the title itself. Night was about a young kid named Eli, that went through a horrifying experience that he will never forget due to the Holocaust. The title relates by being the darkest moment of his...
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...___________________________ LIVING HISTORY Hillary Rodham Clinton Simon & Schuster New York • London • Toronto • Sydney • Singapore To my parents, my husband, my daughter and all the good souls around the world whose inspiration, prayers, support and love blessed my heart and sustained me in the years of living history. AUTHOR’S NOTE In 1959, I wrote my autobiography for an assignment in sixth grade. In twenty-nine pages, most half-filled with earnest scrawl, I described my parents, brothers, pets, house, hobbies, school, sports and plans for the future. Forty-two years later, I began writing another memoir, this one about the eight years I spent in the White House living history with Bill Clinton. I quickly realized that I couldn’t explain my life as First Lady without going back to the beginning―how I became the woman I was that first day I walked into the White House on January 20, 1993, to take on a new role and experiences that would test and transform me in unexpected ways. By the time I crossed the threshold of the White House, I had been shaped by my family upbringing, education, religious faith and all that I had learned before―as the daughter of a staunch conservative father and a more liberal mother, a student activist, an advocate for children, a lawyer, Bill’s wife and Chelsea’s mom. For each chapter, there were more ideas I wanted to discuss than space allowed; more people to include than could be named; more places visited than could be described...
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