“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”— Primo Levi. Primo Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist, who survived the Holocaust. This quote talks about how someone you think is just an average man can actually be more dangerous than monsters. Elie can relate to this quote because he felt the dangers of a group of men called the Nazis. Elie was also a survivor of the Holocaust and lived to tell the story. Since then he has written books such as Night which was about his whole experience through the Holocaust. He has also given the speech Perils of Indifference, which was given at the White House. The …show more content…
This memoir is a depiction of Eli’s life as a young boy who survived the Holocaust throughout the 40’s. Elie educates and engages his readers by providing very detailed images of the actual events throughout the book. His use of personifications such as, “My throat was dry and the words were choking me, paralyzing my lips” (Wiesel 15), or “Death enveloped me, it suffocated me” (Wiesel 86). helps to keep the reader engaged. From page 15, Elie made sure to overemphasize the situation by using descriptive words. This also helps the readers understand the physical and mental pain that Elie was going through as a young kid. Another way he made sure to educate the reader through a different perspective is making his book known worldwide and read by many millions of people. The second way his readers were educated is by how popular the book is. It can sometimes be hard for an author to get their book to be well known, and it’s especially hard to engage reader in a memoir about such a serious topic. Clearly Elie Wiesel had no problem making his book so well known because Night has already been published in 30 different languages and 6 million copies have already been sold in just the
After facing a few years of trials and tribulations, Elie Wiesel was able to survive those hard times and live to speak about it in Night; his autobiography, which described his life over a time of nearly two years in concentration camps and life on his very own hell on earth. Night goes into depth about Elie’s experience in the concentration camps; Auschwitz and Buna where not only does he lose his family, but figuratively himself, God, and hope for humanity. Miraculously, Elie survived the persecution and genocide of the Jews during the Holocaust, but sadly his conscious and faith did not. Elie had to witness and faced obstacles that were never meant or suitable for a boy his age and that drastically changed his mindset and outlook on life.
Even through the book is about how bad the people were being treated I still think that kindness and generosity still exist during time of cruelty. I agree that the Holocaust was devastating but even though the Germans hated the victims they still made sure they had the necessities for life. They gave the prisoners a place to sleep and gave them food, keeping them alive. When Elie’s father was dying a officer told him, “I give you a sound piece of advice. Don’t give your ration to your old father.
Elie is describing how the loss of anyone's life was just walked over and the Nazis wouldn't do anything to remember them or commemorate them. Imagine being trapped in the grossest most unhealthy place in the world, where the only escape was death. Now you know how the Jews
He wanted people to read these brutal stories of people so that they will know the true tragedies that occurred during the Holocaust. Wiesel wanted this because he wanted people to see what happened because he hoped and wished that the new generations never have to experience the things he along with many others did. Elie Wiesel wrote Night for a purpose, he doesn’t want others to have to face the hateful acts he did, he wants people to know what truly happened, and he wants everyone in the world to respect each other no matter their differences. Wiesel had many reasons in mind as he was writing Night and knew exactly the kind of message he wanted to spread to
The holocaust makes physical and mental alterations to Elie’s life, and this tells the reader that the people who did this are effective and impacting, also it shows that Elie’s mind is controlled by what he was experiencing. Way back at the start of the book the readers see an adolescent boy who is studying Kabbalah, but when suddenly German officers come to ship the Jewish citizens out of his town, Elie wants to run away. By
In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel is one of his many novels that he has written in his life. Wiesel is a holocaust survivor that went through terrible time just as other survivors did. Ten years later Wiesel writes his novel Night and shares his story of surviving the holocaust. Wiesel story of surviving the holocaust triggers many emotional connections. Wiesel makes relate in way when he writes.
Elie experienced this horrific truth on the first night at a camp, as stated in the book “Small children, babies! Yes, I did see this with my own eyes….Children thrown into the flames.” (pg.32) These children could have been anything they wanted, but the Holocaust denied them that possibility. The possibility that they could do something great with their lives.
During 1944, Elie Wiesel was forced from his home to undertake a great trial, known by many as the Holocaust. After the grueling meat grinder, known by some as the Shoah, he had survived, and was able to write his experiences years after the event. In short, Wiesel wrote Night to remind people of the horrors and conditions he had experienced within the concentration camps. Years after the Holocaust occurs, Wiesel shows the harsh treatment on him and his peers, enforced by the Schutzstaffel, such as working with great starvation and tiredness. The writing reveals the feelings of oppressed; starved; weakening men under the rule of fascist Nazis.
The Holocaust was a terrible time in the world’s history. Not many Jewish people made it out of the Holocaust alive, but Elie Wiesel not only made it through the dark years, but he also wrote a book and delivered a speech. Both of these things were meant to tell the world about the horrors that happened in the concentration camps and raise awareness about the Holocaust. The book Night tells us what Elie’s journey throughout 1943-1945 (the time of the Holocaust) was like with Nazis controlling the Jews. In the speech Perils of Indifference, Elie explains why it is dangerous to not have an opinion on certain topics.
In this book Elie speaks of his hardships and how he survived the concentration camps. Elie quickly changed into a sorrowful person, but despite that he was determined to stay alive no matter the cost. For instance, during the death
The heart wrenching and powerful memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel depicts Elie’s struggle through the holocaust. It shows the challenges and struggles Elie and people like him faced during this mournful time, the dehumanization; being forced out of their homes, their towns and sent to nazi concentration camps, being stripped of their belongings and valuables, being forced to endure and witness the horrific events during one of history’s most ghastly tales. In “Night” Elie does not only endure a physical journey but also a spiritual journey as well, this makes him question his determination, faith and strength. This spiritual journey is a journey of self discovery and is shown through Elie’s struggle with himself and his beliefs, his father
The read experience the painful perspective of young Elie having to survive through immeasurable evil. Both work provide a view of the Holocaust while still resting on the
A is for Auschwitz, the death camp where Elie and his family were deported to first. Elie's mom and sister, Tzipora, were killed here. B is for Buna, he concentration camp where Elie and his father did back breaking labor for 6 months. C is for Concentration camp, a type of prison camp where Elie Wiesel and others were forced to do hard labor for no pay. D is for Disease like dysentery, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and typhoid were common in concentration camps due to the overcrowding.
Broken in WWII The Holocaust and WWII was a time when many people were blinded from what was actually happening in the world around them. Sadly this was not true for millions of jewish people, and non german citizens. When Elie Wiesel an Auschwitz survivor wrote his memoir Night he was pulling from parts of his life where he was very vulnerable and broken.
Night Paper Assignment Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a tragic memoir that details the heinous reality that many persecuted Jews and minorities faced during the dark times of the Holocaust. Not only does Elie face physical deprivation and harsh living conditions, but also the innocence and piety that once defined him starts to change throughout the events of his imprisonment in concentration camp. From a boy yearning to study the cabbala, to witnessing the hanging of a young child at Buna, and ultimately the lack of emotion felt at the time of his father 's death, Elie 's change from his holy, sensitive personality to an agnostic and broken soul could not be more evident. This psychological change, although a personal journey for Elie, is one that illustrates the reality of the wounds and mental scars that can be gained through enduring humanity 's darkest times.