Comparing Pi-Day And Night

Consider all the terrible things that happen at night: Mrs. Schachter has her visions of fire, hell, and death; Eliezer and his father arrive at Auschwitz and see the smokestacks and wait in line all night long with the smell of “Burning flesh” in their noses; there is the night the soup tasted like corpses; they march through long nights and, Eliezer’s father dies during the nighttime. “The days were like night, and the nights were left the dregs of their darkness in our souls.” Night is a metaphor for the way the soul was submerged in suffering and

This is seen when Eliezer’s soul turns to darkness. He feels abandoned by God, he feels alone and suffers from depression. Eliezer also loses faith in everything. No faith is restored. His family, in humanity, and in his own beliefs, gone. All is lost. Eliezer is an excellent example to express the significance of “night” in the novel Night since he expresses both, darkness of the soul and the loss of all faiths. All of the above is a sigh of what can happen in only one night. Did your life ever change in only one

“Night exposes much that is wrong with human nature and reveals little that is right.” Discuss.

“Everything will seem better in the light of day”, a phrase commonly told to those suffering from the crippling anxiety and over thinking that often accompanies the fall of night. Night by Elie Wiesel gives numerous examples of the complexities and range of emotions that can occur simply by the setting of the sun. The night is a heavily used theme in the book, inasmuch as it was even deemed important enough to be set as the title of the work. The reader is given such a detailed account of the many long and difficult nights that Elie endured, that it is as though one can feel the passage of years in only 115 pages. Throughout the novel, there are many instances where the length, amount of sleep, and feelings associated with night are inconsistent due to the psychological distress these men and women were under. Perhaps the only consistent thing about the night in Elie’s life is how inconsistent it is.

One of the main themes throughout the book is the title of the book “Night”. There are references from Eliezer about night during the book, which are full of symbolism. The word “night” is used repeatedly, and Eliezer recounts every dusk, night and dawn through the entire book. For instance, Night could be a metaphor for the Holocaust—submerge the family and thousands of Jewish families in the darkness and misery of the concentration camps.

In the night one is frightened to try to determine whether one should undergo the perception of being fearful and unattended. To be hopeful and wanting to get through the position one is in during war and the separation of loved and dear ones. This is the darkness and negativity affecting people who may have been in the holocaust. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, portrays such graphic and traumatizing experiences one may have gone through in the holocaust. Which establishes night and darkness as a key subject to focus on throughout the book, it may be used metaphorically or literally in such context. A theme that may be used is, to lose one's consciousness and ones self worth may also lose their humanity and feelings when going through traumatic

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.

Even after he kills a fish in a seemingly careless fashion, in his sleep “[his] mind lit up by the…flickering of the dying [fish]” seems to haunt him with resentment (Martel 186). This subconscious image is a product of Pi’s internal conflict with his new methods of survival. Therefore, Pi is unable to completely eliminate his feelings while trying to survive due to his torn thoughts between morality and necessity.

Imagery is used throughout the story of Night to help a reader better understand the writer’s life. The author, Elie Wiesel, experienced many traumatic events while in the concentration camps of Poland. Through the use of magery, the author is able to create a more realistic rendering of his life. When in the camps, a bell signified the hour that the prisoners were forced to go to bed. Wiesel hated following a strict regime of orders. He transmits his feelings to the reader through his imagery used in the memoir. The author writes, “The bell regulated everything. It gave me orders and I executed them blindly. I hated that bell. When I happened to dream of a better world, I imagined a universe without a bell”

The island can be compared to the Garden of Eden. Pi discovers the “black fruit” on the twisted branches of the tree of “knowledge of Good and Evil” and his illusion of a perfect island is destroyed. There is a heaven and hell type scenario with the passing of each day and entering of each night. At day the meerkats eat without having to kill and show no fear not even towards Richard Parker. At night however, the ecosystem of the island feeds on itself. Pi then realizes, “*he+ preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on the murderous island” (Martel, ). The algae island provided Pi with a protection from the struggle he had to survive on his journey across the Pacific. The island provided Pi with food such as the algae and the meerkats which he did not have while he was on the boat. It also provided Pi with shelter against storms; he also did not have that in the boat. Yet Pi still left the island because he realized to live in this island he would surely die without ever meeting another human being again. Pi left this lifestyle and chose to go with Richard Parker back into the voyage across the Pacific. The last object of symbolism is the colour orange. The colour orange is shown to be associated with survival. However, Pi has been exposed to the colour orange before through Hinduism. In Hinduism the colour orange is used to symbolize fire, when the religious

Consequently, as a fifteen year old boy, he had to see the excruciating realities of the world by receiving physical and mental torture. Night also represented the loss

On the whole, the reasons why this book is called “Night” is because it had symbolised darkness,

"Fleance his son, that keeps him company, Whose absence is no less material to me Than is his father's, must embrace the fate Of that dark hour" (III.i.135-138). He refers to the ‘dark hour’ as the time when they die, and since they are travelling during the night. All in all, light and dark play a big role in impacting the the play.

Another important part highlighting the motivation of Pi’s fear is when he is truly aware of his fear and what is going on. Martel shows that Pi has come to terms with this fear by saying “I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always” (2.56.178) This passage shows Pi’s awareness of his fear and suffering, as well as, that he knows he must go through much more in order to survive.

Stranded at sea for months is not a situation the average Joe finds himself in. The story Yann Martel tells is very unlikely to have happened to the reader. Therefore the weather is all that the reader can say they have experienced. It gives them an opportunity to place themselves in the story, in Pi’s shoes, rather than sitting on the sidelines watching from a distance. It allows the author to increase dramatics in the story while enhancing the meanings behind the situations that Pi is in. Weather intensifies the erraticness of the sea and how Pi eventually adapts to find normalcy in it. It shows Pi’s reliance on nature and definitely plays in role in saving Pi’s