In the story “Terrible Things”, the author used fictional events that were similar to the Holocaust to get his lesson across. The theme of the story was that people should speak up for others instead of ignoring the problems. The Niemoller poem and the excerpt from “Night” are different from “Terrible Things” because they both tell stories from the perspective of people who were survivors of the Holocaust, but their themes have some similarities. The theme of the excerpt from “Night” is that people should take action before it is too late. The lesson that Niemoller wanted to teach through the poem is that people should speak up for others who cannot speak up for themselves. These stories have themes that are similar, and the authors convey the themes in different ways. One way that the authors conveyed the theme was through similar story events. In “Terrible Things”, the terrible things took away different types of animals, and the rabbits did not help. This is supported in paragraph 9, where it says, “But the Terrible Things had brought there terrible nets, and they flung them high and and caught the birds and carried them away.” The …show more content…
Both of the stories use dialogue to convey the theme. In “Night”, Moishe is a survivor who escaped and talked to the other characters about what happened to warn them. The text in paragraph 9 says, “He spoke only of what he had seen. But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen.” This shows that they all chose to ignore him. 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
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
The Holocaust is one of the most well known historical events to this day. As many as 6 million Jews died at the hands of the Nazi soldiers, and many suspect that there were even more. Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir of Wiesel’s time in various concentration camps during the Holocaust. It begins in Wiesel’s hometown of Sighet, Transylvania, and follow the journey of the main character Eliezer. A few main themes of this historic recount are silence, night, and inhumanity. Night has many examples of inhumanity, specifically violence toward the inmates. Wiesel’s memoir shines a light on the violence and the inhumanity of the Nazis, and this impacts Eliezer, the book’s theme of inhumanity, and the reader.
This poem is about how the Nazis came and took everyone and he stood there and witnessed it and said nothing. When it got closer to Niemollers turn to be taken, he still said nothing and did nothing about the people that have been taken before it was finally his turn to go. As Niemoller continued to say nothing or do anything about others being taken away it was finally his turn to go. By the time Niemoller was taken away then there was nobody to speak up for him to be taken away. Niemoller uses parallelism by continually repeating " First they came for". Niemoller says this to get us to understand that every time they came for someone besides him he still said absolutely nothing to help the others that were helpless.In the last two paragraphs, Niemoller says, "Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for
In Night, Elie Wiesel presents the harsh, cruel world that surrounds humanity and which is often times not thought to be evil. Night makes us realize nighttime is no longer a time of peace but is filled with fear and nightmares that can not be removed. Every Night in Auschwitz and Birkenau, death lingered in the air as well as memories of family and friends. Taken away in a small compact cattle car during Passover, the Wiesels and other Jews had no idea what awaited. No one realized they were headed towards their death. Elie like others lost most of his family and dreams except for his father and his faith in God. Though the Holocaust brought so much agony, it also brought some realization of what really mattered in life and what people need to hold on to. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses diction, symbolism, and imagery to show the challenges faced between God and his follower.
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.
The title ‘Night’ has played a huge role on what goes on behind the story by Elie Wiesel during the Holocaust. Figuratively, the title night is for the loss of innocence, hope, and many beliefs. In literal terms, the night resembles a time of gathering, recollecting, and even murder. When Elie came up with the title ‘Night’, the title wasn’t supposed to be taken only in a literal sense, but also in a figurative sense. For example, since the Holocaust, Elie has had to adapt to growing up at an adolescent stage in his life representing night as the loss of innocence.
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.
Night is an account of the Holocaust and persecution of the Jewish people, written by Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel wrote, “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky” (Night). Remembering the events of the Holocaust and the atrocities that occurred are a major theme of the book . The events of the Holocaust were unforgettable to Elie Wiesel and even on the first day, he saw children being burned. Throughout the book this is not the only atrocity that he saw.
The Holocaust is over and has been for about sixty years, so why are we still talking about it? Why is it still relevant in our world today? The world should have learned from its mistakes, but the sad part is that we did not. No, Hitler is no longer killing millions of innocent men, women, and children, but we are still just still just as cruel only in different ways. Night is Elie Wiesel’s factual account of his experiences in the holocaust. He brings us to a world in which not many people want to go. He tells us the true story of what really happened in Nazi concentration camps. Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor chooses to tell his story and begins to teach an entire generation the dangers of ignorance and hatred.
Over ten million people died during the Holocaust, and over six million of them were Jewish. The book Night, is about Elie Wiesel, a Romanian child that was taken to a concentration camp. In the camp, Wiesel and his dad are separated from his mom and sister. In the book, many themes are used such as humanity. The prisoners slowly lose humanity in the camp and it is necessary for them to survive incidents such as fighting for bread, risking their lives for soup, and beating up people.
“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”, said Elie Wiesel the author of night. Elie Wiesel is a holocaust survivor, he went through 5 different concentration camps. He was dehumanized, malnourished, and abused. He lost all his possessions, his family, and his humanity. In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, the German Army dehumanizes Elie Wiesel and the jewish prisoners by depriving them of family, food, and self esteem.
A tragic event can change someone’s life forever in a good way or a bad way. The holocaust shaped people's lives into a way where they can never go back. In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changed as a person due to his experiences at Auschwitz. Elie was a victim of the holocaust and it changed his life forever as a person and a Jew.
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky… Never shall I forget those moments, which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself. Never,” (Wiesel 34). The novel Night uses vivid imagery to construe some of the awful events that took place during the Holocaust, events that could have been prevented had a single person not been given absolute power over everyone else. The main character will never be able to forget these things because “Nothing in Eliezer’s religious studies has prepared him for the sight of children being burned alive in pits, a sight made all the more horrific for readers by our knowledge of his own youth and the youth of his sister Tzipora, from whom he has been separated forever,” (Dougherty). Had these things been prevented it would have saved many people, Eliezer being among them, from immense amounts of physical and emotion pain. The examples from this novel prove the ramifications of one becoming too fond of controlling others around
The Holocaust changed the lives of many. Those that survived have many terrifying stories to tell. Many survivors are too horrified to tell their story because their experiences are too shocking to express in words. Eli Wiesel overcomes this fear by publicly relaying his survival of the Holocaust. "Night", his powerful and moving story, touches the hearts of many and teaches his readers a great lesson. He teaches that in a short span of time, the ways of the world can change for the worst. He wants to make sure that if the world didn't learn anything from hearing about the atrocities of the Holocaust, maybe they'll be able to learn something from Elie's own personal experience. Usually, a person can internalize a situation better
In the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, the word night is repeatedly used as a metaphor symbolizing the conditions and emotions that the Jews struggle with during the Holocaust. Elie’s personal struggle with his experience evoke connotations of darkness that describe the inhumane treatment that Elie and the Jews are forced to endure throughout the memoir. In the beginning, Elie's town is invaded by German soldiers and soon, the Germans force all of the town's Jews to evacuate. After being thrown onto a freight train to Auschwitz, Elie experiences a whole new world filled with fear and hatred. Elie uses “night” to describe the struggles and hardships that he encounters throughout his experience. The literal meaning of the word night is simply the period of darkness everyday between sunset and sunrise. However, the metaphorical meaning of night, in this memoir, is far more sinister. As depicted in Night, the title metaphorically refers to the evil, hopelessness, and emotional coldness that the Jews are constantly forced to face throughout the Holocaust.