Alexa Harrison LaPoe English II Honors 20 April 2023 Night Style Analysis Six million Jews were killed in concentration camps established across Europe by the Nazi Regime (National WWII Museum). Only about 250,000 to 300,000 of the Jews imprisoned were able to survive the daily beatings, the lack of food, and the whims of the weather (Wikipedia). Elie Wiesel was one of those survivors. About ten years after being liberated from Buchenwald, Wiesel was able to gather the courage to let 115 pages of ink and paper tell the story of what he will never forget. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, he carefully and powerfully lays out the story of a sixteen year old boy forced to stare death straight in the face. He reflects on the horrors he encountered, the …show more content…
In writing, there are multiple types of irony. One type is verbal irony, when the character says something, but means the opposite. This is commonly recognized as sarcasm. Second, there is situational irony, where the outcome is the opposite of what was expected to happen. Last, there is dramatic irony, where the audience is told or informed of something that the characters do not yet know. The most common type of irony found in Night is dramatic irony, as Wiesel uses flash forwards or shares future events to cause the current situation in the book to be more ironic. To begin, Wiesel uses dramatic irony early on in the memoir as his younger self asks Moishe the Beadle a question: “Once, I asked him the question: ‘Why do you want people to believe you so much?’ In your place I would not care whether they believed me or not” (7). Moishe the Beadle has just returned after being “expelled from Sighet” (6) for being a “foreign Jew” (6). He recounts what he endured to anyone who will listen to him, explaining that he and the other prisoners were “forced to dig huge trenches” (6) and then shot “one by one” (6). However, no one believed him because they didn’t understand how Moishe the Beadle would have “been able to escape” (6). At this moment, Wiesel cannot understand why Moishe cares so much about others believing and understanding him. However, the reader knows that in the future, Wiesel will answer his own question as he shares in the preface that “those who kept silent today will remain silent tomorrow” (xiii) and he doesn’t want “his past” (xv) to become “the future” (xv) for others. Another time in the memoir where the author uses irony to contribute to the theme is when Wiesel shares information he learned years later about a missed opportunity when a Hungarian police officer knocks on the Wiesel family’s window to warn them to flee: “Had he been able
Elie Wiesel, holocaust survivor and author of the memoir “Night”, tells us of his unimaginable, concentration camp experience during WWII in Auschwitz, Germany. As one of the minority of the Jewish holocaust survivors, he shares his appalling experience with us and the world, which should never be forgotten. In the spring of 1944, Elie Wiesel was an 15 year old boy, living in his hometown of Sighet, in Hungaryan Transilvania. In this time the Nazis occupied Hungary and thus Wiesels family, neighbors and friends.
When you love someone, you will do anything to protect them. This is human nature, nobody wants anything to happen to a person dear to them. Jojo Rabbit directed by Taika Waititi is a satirical comedy about a 10-year-old Nazi fanatic. Jojo grows from a blind Nazi enthusiast in the beginning of the movie to an anti Nazi German towards the end of the movie. Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir detailing Wiesel’s experiences during the holocaust.
“The world would never tolerate such crimes”(33). This was a thought that Elie Wiesel had as he was greeted by the cruel reality of death, torture, and barbaric treatment that awaited him in the Nazi concentration camps. He was surrounded by death, witnessing the murder of children, losing his mother and sister, and watching his father die. Eleven million people died, yet he lived. Elie Wiesel went on to write the memoir Night.
Carter Denbrock Mr. Haadsma English 10B 27 February 2023 TITLE In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, a primary theme of the book is that you must remain strong, while looking out for you and your families, even in the face of conflict and tragedy. Weisel recalls many points in time where he remained hopeful even when it seemed impossible. He and millions of other Jewish prisoners were at the hands of the merciless Nazi’s, Weisel recalls many events where he could have given up but would not allow himself to.
Night In the darkness of night, it’s hard to know what happens in the shadows without light leading the way. In the novel Night, the author ,Elie Wiesel, uses literary devices to show the “light” that leads a young boy through the holocaust. Using devices such as setting, irony, symbols, and point of view help us understand the background, what he thinks is happening vs. what know is happening, and how he sees things that help us realize the twist on words that the narrator uses to direct problems into someone else’s path.
Did you know irony is used in many different stories because it can be very versatile. There are three different kinds of irony: situational, dramatic, and verbal. Situational irony is when something that is not expected happens. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something the characters within the media do not. Verbal irony is when someone says one thing but means the opposite.
Irony may appear in difference ways within literature. Irony changes our expectations of what might happen. It can create the unexpected twist at the end of a story or anecdote that gets people laughing or crying. Verbal irony is intended to be a humorous type of irony. Situational irony can be either funny or tragic.
In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel narrates the legendary tale of what happened to him and his father during the Holocaust. In the introduction, Wiesel talks about how his village in Seghet was never worried about the war until it was too late. Wiesel’s village received advanced notice of the Germans, but the whole village ignored it. Throughout the entire account, Wiesel has many traits that are key to his survival in the concertation camps.
When the young boy asks, “Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent”, (paragraph 5) again the audience is prompted to emotionally respond. They have to realize that it was all of them, all of us, who remained silent and that this silence must never happen again. Wiesel demonstrates a strong use of pathos throughout his speech to encourage his audience to commit to never sitting silently by while any human beings are being treated
Teagan Karlowicz Grosel L&L 8 24 January 2023 Night: a Heartwrenching Story of Immense Change “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me” (Wiesel 115). At just 15 Eliezer Wiesel gets taken to Auschwitz, then Birkenau, and eventually Buna where he spends most of his time during the Holocaust. During his time at Buna, he is essentially starved and beaten repeatedly. Nevertheless, he survives and is liberated in a camp called Buchenwald.
Elie Wiesel is able to appoint the role of an antagonist to almost anybody, he does so on page sixty-seven of Night relaying the allegory of malice within a single man’s actions. It says, sometime around the middle of the book, victims of the concentration camps were on their way to the center of Germany. One of the workmen had decided to throw a piece of bread into the wagon the men were in. The men became violent for this piece of bread and fought to the death for some measly crumbs. ( Pg 67 Wiesel ).
In chapter one of Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, his purpose behind his use of excessive tragic irony is to display the astonishing amount of innocence and unawareness the Jews have about the Germans’ plans. For instance, Wiesel displays the Jews’ ignorance when he writes, ““There was joy, yes joy. People must have thought there could be no greater torment in God’s hell than that of being stranded here, on the sidewalk” (16). This exemplifies how the Jews truly believe that the situation was going to get better. This is tragically ironic because their situation was not going to get better, it was going to get much worse.
Wisel uses irony at the end of the book after the camps and
Irony can be used in different ways, authors tend to use irony as a plot device to create conflict, suspense, empathy, and humor. Irony adds more depth, perception, and creativity to the process of storytelling. There are three types of irony; Verbal irony, Dramatic irony, and situational irony. Verbal Irony is when a speaker says the opposite of what they mean, sarcasm can be considered a form of verbal irony. Dramatic Irony is when the audience knows more than the characters, it creates emotion and tension.
The definitions of the 3 types are that verbal irony is when a person says something but means the opposite while situational irony is when a person expects one thing but they get the opposite and then dramatic irony is when the audience knows