Analysis Of Silence By Silence Wiesel

In “Night” by Elie Wiesel silence gives time for him to reflect on his life and the struggles that are going on. When Wiesel is in the concentration camp he gets him time to reflect on the hardship of life and all of the terrible things such as when he say “ Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded

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.

These are used to show drama, side thought, and emotion. “‘The Red Army is advancing with great strides… Hitler will not be able to harm us, even if he wants to…’” (page 8) The author uses ellipses to show side thought, which means that more was said or thought, but the most important information was given to the reader. Wiesel also uses short, and simple sentences to add drama. “I was sixteen.” (page 102) During this part in the story Elie Wiesel had just witnessed a father die at the hands of his son, then his son die at the hands of others. He tells his audience that he is sixteen when this happens. This fact surprises readers and adds both drama, and sympathy. However, other emotions are also invoked in this story such as Anger. “They pray before you! They praise your name!”(page 68) By adding exclamations the author adds intense emotion. This scene creates upsetting emotions for the reader, and also reveals Wiesel's anger with his situation. Wiesel is angry and frustrated at God for everything that he has been put through. He is upset that others are still praying to God, even when God has done nothing to help them. The way that he structures his sentences give a sense of style to his

In the book Night, Elie Wiesel writes about his experience during the Holocaust as a young boy. He shares the terrible torture and degradation that he and other Jews have experienced. After he had been rescued, he repeatedly mentions how unworthy he is to be alive. Many lessons are learned throughout the book. One of the most important lessons in the book is the importance of bearing witness. In the context of the book, bearing witness means sharing what has happened during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel utilizes the motifs of silence, eyes, and identity in order to show the theme of bearing witness in Night.

Language has the ability to impact the mood and tone of a piece in literature. In Night, Wiesel uses imagery, symbolism, diction and foreshadowing to illustrate dehumanization. The deeper true horror of the Holocaust is not what they Nazi’s did, but the behavior they legitimized as human beings being dehumanized by one another through silence and apathy.

In this point of the book, Wiesel’s father has grown weak and has become sick, to the point where he doesn’t hear anything but the need to drink water or his son’s name. Lastly, “His last word was my name. A summons, to which I did not respond” (Wiesel 116). In this quote, the theme silence is shown by Wiesel’s silence. The last word of Wiesel’s father was his name and he kept silence because it was bedtime and he did not wish to be

In any memoir, that is the intent: to encourage the reader to feel more, and thus understand to a greater capacity of the atrocity of the Holocaust. The pairing of imagery and rhetorical questioning is Wiesel’s most effective technique in achieving this end: “Pressed up against the others in an effort to keep out the cold, head empty and heavy at the same time, brain a whirlpool of decaying memories. Indifference deadened the spirit. Here or elsewhere— what difference did it make? To die today or tomorrow, or later? The night was long and never ending”(Wiesel). By using the imagery of his “head empty and heavy at the same time” and describing his “brain a whirlpool of decaying memories”, Wiesel is able to convey the emotional and mental destruction the Holocaust wrought upon him. While a textbook may reference the psychological impact on survivors, the lack of detail and personal relatability would not have the same impact that a memoir like Night will

There are people crowded, shoulder to shoulder, expecting a shower and to feel water raining down their bodies. Sighs of relief turn into screams of terror as innocent people are gasping for their last breaths of air inside of the gas chamber. This was a daily occurrence for Jewish and other people involved in the Holocaust. This was just one horrific event of many that had happened to women, men and children. Some of the survivors have used their voice to speak out about their own background during their time spent in Auschwitz and other concentration camps. Elie Wiesel, author of the book Night, is one of the many who did so. Wiesel talks about his personal experience and shares his feelings, thoughts and emotions that he went through with others during the Holocaust.

Elie Wiesel's use of diction indicates the tone of guilt that he aims at the audience. Elie Wiesel first uses the word “indifference” when saying, “So much violence, so much Indifference…...Has the human being become less indifferent and more human?” (paragraph 3 & 11). He repeats this word 11 times in the following paragraphs. Elie Wiesel uses repetition to make the word stand out and uses the word in rhetorical questions to emphasis its meaning. His use of the word repetitively helps the audience know its important while it also impacts the tone of guilt because he is saying the United states and others had no concern to help them. Without Elie Wiesel's use of words and diction, the tone would be less distinguishable.

The holocaust is the most deadly genocide in the world that impacted millions of life by controlling and running life because of one mean man. In Elie Wiesel memoir, The Night is describing his own experience before, during and after the holocaust. He describes in meticulous details his experience in the concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Buna with is father. Wiesel depicts how the Nazi slowly destructs every interpersonal relationship in the Jews community. Within the autobiography, Wiesel shows how the interpersonal relationships are important within the population in general, in the concentration camp and in more precisely with is own relationship with his family.

As Elie gets used to his new life in such a hellish state, he realizes that the trusting and faithful child that he once had been had been taken away along with his family and all else that he had ever known. While so many others around him still implore the God of their past to bring them through their suffering, Wiesel reveals to the reader that although he still believes that there is a God, he no longer sees Him as a just and compassionate leader but a cruel and testing spectator.

Wiesel’s uses portions of his personal experiences to move his persuasive speech from a just one feeling.

In the beginning of the speech Wiesel explains his childhood. He uses imagery to paint a picture in the audience’s mind of what it was like to live in a war-torn country. He states, “Fifty-four years to the day, a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up, not far from Goethe’s beloved Weimar, in a place of eternal infamy called Buchenwald.” (Wiesel 1) This makes the audience think about what he just said and where Wiesel came from. It also makes the reader feel

Elie Wiesel used a variety of rhetorical strategies in his novel Night to convey a his horrendous story of the holocaust, through a lense that forcibly effects the reader, by not only putting you in the mindset of one of the victims, but by hitting on a variety of themes that are close to readers across the globe, to create a story that will be impactful on anyone who reads it. For example in the passages we read in class, the second excerpt did a phenomenal job of illustrating the heart wrenching story the Wiesel had to face first hand. Wiesel starts by referring to the march/run as a machine, repeating, how he had to focus on running, describing the group as automatons, saying that they were running without thought, mindless machines. This

In “Night” by Elie Wiesel he uses the word silence to show and describe people's loneliness and loss of hope. Being silent is what keeps you alive in the concentration camps it is what gets the people through and not being tortured. Throughout the book there are a numerous amount of times Elie Wiesel uses the word silence. One time where Elie Wiesel uses Silence is when he says, “he must have mistaken my silence for defiance. ”(53)