Common Themes In Elie Wiesel's 'Night'

The author uses various elements of literature and language to support her purpose an dto make this story a portrayal of its genre. Characters that the author uses forest animals such as white rabbits, birds, frogs, fish, squirrels and porcupines. Having personified animals is a trait of many fantasy stories. It also has a clear protagonist and antagonist, the protagonist being Little Rabbit and the antagonist being the Terrible Things. Also, the author’s diction and syntax are simple and the names that she chooses for the characters are very childlike, for example the Terrible Things. She uses imagery to add dimension to a simple story like when she uses “shimmering fish” and “ the cool brown waters of the forest pond.” Little Rabbit. The author uses this to develop the setting and also appeal to the reader’s emotion of happiness and serenity which makes the plot more dramatic. The sentences are short and without too many details The story is

A Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel shares his experience in Auschwitz-Birkaneau, one of Hitler’s concentration camps, in his autobiography Night. In the memoir, Wiesel utilizes the motifs: silence, survival, and responsibility to develop character, plot, and other literary elements.

The book, Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is about the Holocaust. The Holocaust took place in Europe but specifically in Germany, between the 1930s and 1940s. Adolf HItler was the leader of that time. The Nazi party and Adolf Hitler wanted to eliminate all jews, because they believed jews were the reason they lost WW1. They also believed in anti-semitism. They murdered over six million jews, but before the Holocaust was over, Adolf Hitler committed suicide.

Literary Device Glossary: Night Metaphor Examples/evidence: "We were still trembling, and with every screech of the wheels, we felt the abyss opening beneath us.” (Page 25) Effect/purpose: An abyss didn’t literally open beneath them, this was said metaphorically to describe the hope lowering within the jews as time passed. ~ Personification Examples/evidence: " But it was all in vain.

In “Terrible Things”, Little Rabbit tried to talk to Big Rabbit about what happened, and he said things like, “These porcupines always were bad tempered”, and “We are white rabbits. It couldn’t happen to us.” This shows that he tried to justify the other animals being taken away to make him feel more safe. The event after this was similar to Night, because Little Rabbit also escaped to warn other forest

* “I shall never forgive myself. Nor shall I forgive the world for having pushed me against the wall, for having turned me into a stranger, for having awakened in me the basest, most

Both readings give the daily life of a child during the time of the Holocaust.

In the time of trouble and desperation Elie said, “God is no longer with us” (67). The events that occurred during the holocaust made Elie question not only his faith but also his surroundings. In the memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel, losing faith and getting stronger were two main themes in the story.

Mr. Jones, the farmer, goes to sleep drunk one night when the most respected animal calls a meeting. Major, as the pig is called, waits until everyone is settled to begin describing the gist of the dream he had had the night before. He tells them that their lives are much harder than they need be. The only reason why they aren’t happy is that they must deal with humans. He says humans are useless and profit off everyone else’s hard work. Unless they rebel, their lives and those of their children will never get better. The group decides that all four-legged or winged animals are friends and will not be harmed when they eventually rebel. Then, Major sings a lively old song that everyone immediately loves, Beasts of England, but they all

The Holocaust was a time of great suffering and inhumanity. The novel Night, which took place during this time, was written by Elie Wiesel and talks about his teen self-experiencing the concentration camps of Auschwitz. This is related to the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas which is the story of a young German boy named Bruno who befriends a Jewish boy in a concentration camp. The many similarities and differences between the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the novel Night include their many themes of “inhumanity” and “guilt and inaction”, and the two also share and differ in the loss of innocence of the characters and how they develop in each medium.

The first activity that I chose to do, was to interview a character in the memoir, Night. The second activity that I choose, was to create a collage that represents the mode and the themes of this memoir. Many themes were portrayed throughout this memoir. The two activities I chose, relate to a variety of themes: the consequences of human judgement, loss of faith in God, father-son relationships, and loss of human freedom.

"The rabbits became strange in many ways, different from other rabbits. They knew well enough what was happening. But even to themselves they pretended that all was well, for the food was good, they were protected, they had nothing to fear but the one fear; and that struck here and there, never enough at a time to drive them away. They forgot the ways of wild rabbits. They forgot El-ahrairah, for what use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?"

When people look at two extremely different stories such as Night and Life is Beautiful, they would not expect there to be many similarities. However, these two devastating tales are more alike than suspected. Both Night and Life is Beautiful may be two accounts of the holocaust, but that does not mean that they bring the same thing to the table. They both may include a somewhat similar father-son relationship, yet they still aren’t that same. Night, a tragic memoir of Eliezer Wiesel, and Life is Beautiful, a humorous and still somewhat depressing movie of Guido and his family, have numerous similarities as well as drastic differences between them.

This happened during the Holocaust when the Nazi’s first came for the Jews and slowly started coming for more and more groups such as Polish, Gypsies, and Russians. In Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust it states, “’Just mind your own business, Little Rabbit. We don’t want them mad at us.’” This statement from the passage represents how people acted during the time of the Holocaust. The book also shows in the end that the “bad things” ended up coming for them too and they had no one there when they were calling for help.

These rabbits live very stressful lives, because of the imperialistic rules set in place by the Owsla and the Owslafa, which are essentially the army and the government groups. The Owsla and Owslafa members use mass surveillance and terror to regulate the rabbits within Efrafra. They separate the lower class citizens into marks (scars inflicted on certain parts of a rabbit’s body). While in these marks, their leaders have complete and utter control over their entire lives: they can only eat, pass feces, breed and move where and when their leaders permit, and should they fail to adhere to the ideology of the Owslafa they will be tortured then killed or used as an example for other rabbits that contemplate