Prevention of racial discrimination. Throughout history, there have been instances where racial discrimination has caused tremendous pain and suffering amongst those considered to be inferior. When thinking of racial discrimination throughout history, two events come to mind. One being the holocaust occurring during WWII, and the other being slavery in America during the 1700’s. These periods of time sadly go unmentioned in this day and age, only being discussed in classrooms, to the dismay of the students. Even in the classroom, a good portion of the information given is not from the perspective of the oppressed, and if it is, it’s heavily deluded. This is because topics of great suffering are considered “taboo” or “unspeakable.” These events should not be considered unspeakable, “We should speak of it often. We should speak of it loudly,” (Pierce, 1) as to prevent it from occurring again. These, and similar messages, are represented in two texts, highlighting personal experiences of Elie Wiesel, and Olaudah Equiano throughout these two times in history. Night, written by Elie Wiesel, tells of Wiesel’s experiences during the holocaust. As presented in the preface, Elie’s reasoning for writing Night was to inform the …show more content…
Their telling of the events during such times as these, and the use of literary devices to get these points across, give an important lesson to the readers. This lesson being not only to keep the memory of these events alive, but to also prevent such an event from happening. Although Equiano’s text was written also to stop slavery at the time, its message has an important use today, just like Wiesel’s, to prevent another mass homicide or enslavement. This is why reading and discussing texts such as these is
Although there are many different stories about the holocaust, Elie Wiesel's story is very vivid and full of the jarring reality of his experiences. He doesn’t hold back any of the cruelness and torment he was forced to endure as an adolescent. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses repetition, imagery, and symbolism to illustrate the deprivation of his former self during his traumatic experiences during his time in the Nazi work camp.
The novel “Night” was written by Elie Wiesel and is a memoir of his life during World War II. The book starts with his life living in Hungary with his family. It then tells of how they were taken away to concentration camps throughout the war. During Elie’s stays at the various camps you see the sacrifices he makes and how the experience changes him.
Based on the reading experience, what the author of the book, Elie Wiesel achieved with “Night” is having people understand the true horrors of the Holocaust. An evidence to prove that what Elie Wiesel achieved was achieved is the horrific events in the book and the reader’s general thoughts. By reading the book the reader followed Eliezer the protagonist on his survival out the camp alive, mentally witnessing and feeling the same horrors Eliezer had to face. Horrifying events such as child hangings on page 96 “...They hung the poor boy…”(Wiesel 96) and when Eliezer is finally free, it is not as if he ends on a happy note and is joyful but instead weary unable to tell if he is dead or not and filled with sorrow as Eliezer is constantly haunted
The memoir “Night” is about Eliezer (aka: Elie) Wiesel’s experience during the Holocaust. He faces horrifying things that no human should ever have to endure. He survived and lived to tell his story. Dehumanization was a big part of the Holocaust because the prisoners experience was so terrible that it changed them, and others thought that corrupt acts would help them survive.
The book Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography that depicts his lasting experience with the Holocaust. The book is written in Eliezer’s perspective and recounts his remarkable story. The memoir exhibits three prominent themes: father and son relationship, loss of faith, and inurement.
The book Night is a story of family, religion, violence, and hope. This book tells the story of Elie Wiesel’s journey through the holocaust. During the novel, Wiesel writes with the purpose of teaching us several lessons. This lesson is conveyed through Wiesel’s actions, other character’s actions, as well as quotations. The lesson Wiesel taught in Night is to persevere and never lose hope up no matter how hopeless the situation may seem.
In the story “Night” Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, tells his story about his experiences with being Jewish in the concentration camps. In the story “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Elie vividly describes the mass dehumanization within the concentration camps during the Holocaust. Through many accounts,
Elie Wiesel’s Night is a haunting memoir that looks back at his own personal, horrific experiences as a teenager during the Holocaust. Through his own narrative, Elie offers readers a clear, frightful glimpse into the human suffering that took place during his experience. Separated from his mother and sisters, Elie faces the horrors of the concentration camp with his father. They were beaten, enslaved and put through multiple inhumane living conditions. Elie is one of the million Jews who were stripped from their human rights and was brave enough to share his own story even after he lost faith and human rights, which played a role in his mental and physical suffering in concentration camps.
In 2006, Elie Wiesel published the memoir “Night,” which focuses on his terrifying experiences in the Nazi extermination camps during the World War ll. Elie, a sixteen-year-old Jewish boy, is projected as a dynamic character who experiences overpowering conflicts in his emotions. One of his greatest struggles is the sense helplessness that he feels when all the beliefs and rights, of an entire nation, are reduced to silence. Elie and the Jews are subjected daily to uninterrupted torture and dehumanization. During the time spent in the concentration camp, Elie is engulfed by an uninterrupted roar of pain and despair. Throughout this horrific experience, Elie’s soul perishes as he faces constant psychological abuse, inhuman living conditions, and brutal negation of his humanity.
The novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel tells the tale of a young Elie Wiesel and his experience in the concentration camps,and his fight to stay alive . The tragic story shows the jewish people during the Holocaust and their alienation from the world. Elie’s experience changes him mentally, and all actions in taken while in the concentration were based on one thing...Survival.
Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel, a young Jewish boy, who tells of his experiences during the Holocaust. Elie is a deeply religious boy whose favorite activities are studying the Talmud and spending time at the Temple with his spiritual mentor, Moshe the Beadle. At an early age, Elie has a naive, yet strong faith in God. But this faith is tested when the Nazi's moves him from his small town.
Elie Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust, World War II, and life’s brutalities. In his lifetime Elie Wiesel experiences discrimination over being Jewish. He was sent to labor camps because he practiced a different religion. However, many people in the world today that are discriminated against because they
The Holocaust is widely known as one of the most horrendous and disturbing events in history that the world has seen; over six million lives were lost, in fact the total number of deceased during the Holocaust has never been determined. The footage of concentration camps and gas chambers left the world in utter shock, but photos and retellings of the events cannot compare to being a victim of the Holocaust and living through the horror that the rest of the world regarded in the safety of their homes. Elie Wiesel recognized the indifference that the
Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography about his experience during the Holocaust when he was fifteen years old. Elie is fifteen when the tragedy begins. He is taken with his family through many trials and then is separated from everyone besides his father. They are left with only each other, of which they are able to confide in and look to for support. The story is told through a series of creative writing practices. Mr. Wiesel uses strong diction, and syntax as well as a combination of stylistic devices. This autobiography allows the readers to understand a personal, first-hand account of the terrible events of the holocaust. The ways that diction is used in Night helps with this understanding.
“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own source of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”( The Elie Wiesel quote chosen) On the surface we are being told that no person, or group of people, should be seen as an aberration; and also that we should strive to see the aspects in one another that defines us as human regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, creed, etc. Under that lense it is easy to see how people’s way of thinking led to both the genocide of Jewish people as well as the enslavement and subsequent abuses suffered by people of African descent in the United States. The quote is therefore not a juxtaposition on the extent of abuse maintained by the author of the quote and subjects of