Chapter Summary Of Forgotten Fire By Adam Bagdasarian

(pg. 113) For them, food was equivalent to freedom. They fought aggressively like animals for a crumb of bread. It was unfair that prisoners were given a bit of soup or a slice of bread and shot at for being outside on sight .

In the novel Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian, Vahan Kenderian witnessed his world fall apart around him. First, his wise and disciplinary Father is taken away and never heard from again, then his two oldest brothers are shot in front of his eyes. Finally, he is taken away from his home and taken to a dilapidated inn. After he and his brother run away, he is forced to travel across Turkey with nowhere to go. Without his father’s wise words, he is forced to repeat that it all will build character and make him stronger.

Elie Wiesel's harsh diction in the memoir "Night" shows how Wiesel beared witness to history. In multiple parts of the text, Wiesel uses more harsh words showing the fury in the Nazi's words and actions. In one situation, the Jewish community was shipped to the concentration camps. Receiving their assignment and rough punishments. Along with that, if the Jewish people weren't going fast enough to the German's liking they would have their human rights violated.

The prisoners, “had not eaten for nearly six days except for a few stalks of grass and some potato peels” and as a result, were on the verge of starvation. It can be expected that the prisoners would not think of revenge purely because of their desire to eat. In fact, their desire to eat was so strong that their “first act as free men, was to throw themselves onto the provisions… no thought of revenge… only of bread” (Pg. 115). This scene immaculately portrays how the Jews were robbed of their basic needs, such as sustenance; and as a result, did not think about either their parents or revenge. Furthermore, “even when [they] were no longer hungry, not one of [them] thought of revenge… a few men ran into Weimar to bring back some potatoes and clothes… but still no trace of revenge” Even clothes were robbed from the Jews, showing how even the basic requirements of clothing were stripped from them.

How do you react when your faith is being tested? For Wiesel in the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel the reader witnesses the loss of faith. The response of Wiesel faith was effected by the surrounding he was faced with. The foundation of his beliefs was questioned by the events he saw. Thus as time passed more individuals began to lose their religious behaviours.

“Meir Katz was moaning: Why don't they just shoot us now?” (Wiesel 103). This shows how the harsh conditions and punishment of the Nazi officers dehumanize the jewish prisoners in concentration camps. It is the process of dehumanization that made possible the evils of the Holocaust and makes possible the smaller evils that occur on a daily basis. The Nazi guards, as revealed in the Elie Wiesel memoir, Night, were able to victimize their prisoners because the process of dehumanization desensitized them to the evils they inflicted.

In the beginning of Night, Elie has a deep love in God. Elie is so passionate that he feels the need to master the Kaballah which is usually reserved for those who are older than thirty. It is a long process and he feels encouraged to do so because of his love to God. He says "One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kaballah. "(Wiesel 4)

Major events in people's lives can change them, but how would a concentration camp and a dead family change someone? Elie Wiesel’s book Night tells how he was forced beyond will to a concentration camp and changed forever. He went through unbearable conditions that tested his faith and hope. It is after seeing the tragic conditions in the camp that Elie drifts and is totally separated from his faith to God. Elie changed from a young God seeking boy, to a hopeless, Godless corpse.

Elie Wiesel Rhetorical Speech Analysis Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor and winner of a Nobel peace prize, stood up on April 12, 1999 at the White House to give his speech, “The Perils of Indifference”. In Wiesel’s speech he was addressing to the nation, the audience only consisted of President Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, congress, and other officials. The speech he gave was an eye-opener to the world in his perspective. Wiesel uses a variety of rhetorical strategies and devices to bring lots of emotion and to educate the indifference people have towards the holocaust. “You fight it.

After a while of being in the Nazi concentration camp he adapted to the environment around him. He saw death so often that it was no longer had a big impact on him. While death is a big part in

His whole life was changed almost overnight, first with some gaurds, then barbed wire, then the ghettos and the cattle cars, which led to the concentration camps. It was at the concentration camps where the people 's lives really started to change for the

Just like other Jews, Eliezer's faith begins to falter by watching others be harshly treated, like himself, and viewing the horrific death of innumerable innocent lives. In the beginning, the 12 year old Eliezer starts out immensely religious, he's determined to learn more about the Torah and his own religion overall. However, when Eliezer and his family get taken to death camps, he begins to question his faith. As the days pass by, Elie Wiesel's faith

The human condition is a very malleable idea that is constantly changing due to the current state of mankind. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the concept of the human condition is displayed in the worst sense of the concept, during the Holocaust of WWII. During this time, multiple groups of people, most notably European Jews, were persecuted against and sent to horrible hard labor and killing centers such as Auschwitz. In this memoir, Wiesel uses complex figurative language such as similes and metaphors to display the theme that a person’s state as a human, both at a physical and emotional level, can be altered to extreme lengths, and even taken away from them, under the most extreme conditions.

In which millions of Jews were innocently killed and persecuted because of their religion. As a student who is familiar with the years of the holocaust that will forever live in infamy, Wiesel’s memoir has undoubtedly changed my perspective. Throughout the text, I have been emotionally touched by the topics of dehumanization, the young life of Elie Wiesel, and gained a better understanding of the Holocaust. With how dehumanization was portrayed through words, pondering my mind the most.

Having bread with every meal as a side is a given, having a fire in the fireplace on cold winter nights is considered relaxing; however, bread and fire are not what they were to the men in the concentration camp as they are to us in 2016 in America. Bread was viewed as a meal, sometimes a prize. Fire was viewed as torture, not a way to keep warm. In the book, Night, by Elie Wiesel is a story about a young boy fighting with everything a young boy has to survive in the depths of the Holocaust.