Animal Imagery In Night By Elie Wiesel

In the story, Elie is slowly losing his hope because he feels like nothing is coming in his direction that is good. He and the other Jews have a hard time living in the concentration camps because everyday they are being punished and starved. In the story, Elie Wiesel shows the literary element of imagery by saying “Then we began to hear the airplanes. Almost at once, the barracks began to shake.

In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he utilizes a simile to develop the theme that everyone should be treated equally no matter their culture and religion and they should not be belittled over what they believe in. Wiesel uses the motif of dogs compared to humans in a careless tone in chapter 2. This focusses on dehumanization because the germans always would make the jews feel as if they were nothing and they would brutally break the jews down piece by piece. Later it mentions “Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine gun” (Wiesel 6). This supports my claim because when it says this it is showing that they used the babies as material.

Could you imagine being in the Holocaust? In the book Night by Elie Wiesel Jews were not only just killed in the history ,and there Elie and his father are trying to survive. Other than that I will be telling you how they are trying to show compassion throughout the book. Night by Elie Wiesel shows how he experienced the Holocaust with his father and others, but yet he has to face human cruelty.

Inhumanity. The cruelest of people are responsible for this. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses imagery, tone, and characterization to show the effects of inhumane actions. Night is about a young boy and his father who get separated from the rest of their family during selection of the Holocaust. This story tells how Elie survived his times in the concentration camps, even with all of the inhumane actions of the Germans.

For years Wiesel witnesses dehumanizing acts brought against him, and when he writes he furthers the dehumanization by describing the actions of the Jews with animalistic metaphors. One examples is when Wiesel compares Jews fighting for a piece of bread on the convoy to Buchenwald to animals attacking prey: “Beasts of prey unleashed, animal hate in their eyes.” (101). In his writing, the metaphor helps convince the reader that the Jews were acting like animals. Wiesel uses the words “beast” to describe those like him. He is writing as if the Jews became so savage and gruesome. Yet, the idea of the Jews acting like animals was a Nazi one, and this metaphor came from a Jew. The choice for animals to be Wiesel's vehicle, is exactly what the Nazis do to dehumanize the Jews. So, this shows how Wiesel internalizes the dehumanizing acts from the Nazis, and how he now sees the Jews as animals as well. The Nazi’s almost brainwash Wiesel, so that he know now believes that the Nazi’s comparing the Jews to animals is accurate. Even years after experiencing the cruel acts, the Nazi’s mental warfare affects Wiesel and convinces him that the Jews truly were animals and not human. Wiesel continues to dehumanize the Jews as he decides to give inhuman things human characteristics with his personification.

In Elie Wiesel’s Night, imagery is employed to show the dehumanization of the Jewish people by the Nazis as the Jews develop the “survival of the fittest” mentality, and as Eliezer looses the ability to express emotions. Wiesel uses imagery of the Jews’ “survival of the fittest” mentality to show the dehumanization of the Jews who are forced to endure treacherous conditions in the concentration camps. The enslaved Jews experience the worst forms of inhumane treatment. Pushed beyond their ability to deal with the oppressing starvation, cold, disease, exhaustion, and cruelty, the Jews lose their sanity and morality. Thus, Wiesel refers to the Jews as, “wild beasts of prey with animal hatred

The Holocaust was a horrific time period when over six million Jewish people were systematically exterminated by the Nazi government. Throughout this period, the Jews were treated particularly inhumane because the Nazi viewed their ethnicities as a disease to humanity. Dehumanization is a featured theme in Elie Wiesel’s novel about the Holocaust since he demonstrated numerous examples of the severe conditions endured by the Jewish people. The nonfiction story Night by Elie Wiesel focuses on inhumanity and reveals human beings are capable of committing great atrocities and behaving cruelly, when such actions are condoned by society, peer pressure, and ethical beliefs. Elie Wiesel uses literary devices to produce a consistent theme of inhumanity.

Elie Wiesel’s Night is about what the Holocaust did, not just to the Jews, but, by extension, to humanity. The disturbing disregard for human beings, or the human body itself, still to this day, exacerbates fear in the hearts of men and women. The animalistic acts by the Nazis has scarred mankind eternally with abhorrence and discrimination.

Although, at the same time German SS guards still treat the workers poorly having physically and mentally worked to death. It is to show how the Germans atrociously plan their ideas to exterminate the Jews simply because they are viewed as animals. By using light and dark atmospheres, Wiesel could successfully let the reader understand his overall message.

To survive a tragedy such as the Holocaust, one must leave all morals behind and release the animal within them. In novels Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began, by Art Spiegelman, and Night, by Elie Wiesel, both authors use literary devices to exemplify animalistic attributes found within the story. Elie Wiesel uses animal imagery to describe the characters in the novel, Night as opposed to Spiegelman, who uses animal metaphor to represent characters in the graphic novel, Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began. Both novels have their unique ways of symbolizing animals, however, Night is much more effective than its counterpart, Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began. In Night, Elie Wiesel utilizes animal imagery to convey the theme

Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, Recounts his first-hand experiences of Nazi atrocities in his memoir, Night as Wiesel struggles to maintain faith. Inhumanity and cruelty are two key parts relating to dehumanization in the novel Night by Elie Wiesel. Inhumanity and cruelty dehumanization of Jews during the Holocaust. This cruelty is important to the theme in this book because this is what the Holocaust is about. This book focuses on the Jews of Sighet because that is where the author Elie is from, the book entails the horrendous story of one Jew and his father out of six million Jews. Cruelty is directly related to this book as a whole because it is basically what the Holocaust is about, Nazi’s and Germans mistreating Jewish people because

The transportation from camp to camp was a horrible experience for Elie. The prisoners were treated with absolutely no respect and piled into train cars with up to a hundred prisoners per car while being transported to Buchenwald. While on the train to Buchenwald Elie states, “We remained lying on the floor for days and nights, one on top of the other, never uttering a word. We were nothing but frozen bodies” (Elie Wiesel 100). One could not begin to imagine the cruel abuse that these prisoners went through. Snow continuously fell as they stacked on top of each other for any sign of warmth. Elie made a powerful declaration when he calls himself along with the other prisoners

In the novel “Night”, author, Elie Wiesel uses imagery to share his experiences as a jew during the holocaust. Wiesel’s use of imagery helps demonstrate the tone and purpose of the entire novel. Elie Wiesel’s journey starts off  subtle but in the end leaves the reader heartbroken.    Throughout the story, Wiesel describes his tragic memories during the nazi concentration camps, which establishes a dark and somber tone. His descriptions and use of imagery creates the tone and purpose of “Night”.

In the beginning of the memoir, Wiesel experiences acts of prejudice in the form of name calling. At this point, Elie is on his way to a camp no more strength in him, he continues to walk: “ ‘Faster! Faster! Get on with you lazy swine!’ ” (Wiesel 28). In this quote, Elie describes how Hungarian people see Jewish people more of an animal than a human. It illustrates how people can certainly be irrelevant and not be willing to truly understand what people are coming from. This remark Elie’s

Cruelty surrounds the world constantly, and is used frequently in works of literature to reveal certain things about the theme. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, acts of cruelty are used to express the theme and enhance its message. One of the largest themes revealed by these acts is “man’s inhumanity to man,” which includes mistreatment of Jews by the Nazis, the common people, and other Jews. Watching the large amounts of violence, abuse, and discrimination that occur in this memoir show us the horrors of the Holocaust and how it transformed the men and women who it experienced it, as well as those who caused it.