Elie Wiesel's Eve: A Narrative Fiction

Journal Entry 1: There are many assumptions that came to mind when I first saw the book. The images that they title brought to my mind is someplace where there is no light, no happiness.When you think of night you clearly think of physical darkness but I think night symbolizes a place without God’s presence, somewhere where there 's no hope. The emotions that this title brought to my mind is sadness. Sadness because once you are in the dark there is nothing you can do but wait. Wait on your destiny. The impression that the picture on the book gave me was very vague. I was not certain if this book would be a boring book because of the lack of designs or if this book would be a deep, interesting book by the title Night. I have never heard about the author Elie Wiesel, so i was unfamiliar with his work. The fact that this book has been assigned to me, I thought it was going to be boring but now that I seen the physical book and made some assumptions I am very eager to begin reading.

In Night, one man tells his story of the terrible experiences that he struggled through in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel gives his readers vivid descriptions of the places he was at and of the people who had crossed his path at one time or another. Elie and many other Jews struggle with their faith in God because they have felt abandoned by Him. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses repetition, symbolism, and irony to convey his loss of faith throughout the book.

The Holocaust was a gruesome time for the world. When Hitler and the Nazi army seized control of Germany in 1933 and persuaded the Germans that the Jews were the problem, there were 566,000 Jews currently living in Germany. In 1933 the First concentration camps are built, and in 1934 Hitler becomes the Der Fuherer and receives a ninety percent approval rating from the people. Auschwitz was the first camp established near Oswiecim. Construction began in April 1940 in an abandoned Polish army barracks in a suburb of the city. SS authorities continuously used prisoners for forced labor to expand the camp. This camp will act as one of the biggest bridges between the two books.

Look at that Moshe just ran through screaming like a maniac. He yelled telling us to do something before what has happened to him and the other foreign Jews.5. Listen to what he said and how he explained when he was taken out of the town and make to go on to a train with the other foreigner Jews. He also told us that they were all unloaded and the terrible part to dig their own graves. He also told us how they were all shot and the reason for him living was he was shot in the leg, elder Jew, we must listen or take into consideration for what he has said for our own safety and for all of our friends and families sake and hide. Elder Jew asks,” Why should we trust what Moshe the beadle has to say and believe him, what reason.”

Many themes exist in Night, Elie Wiesel’s nightmarish story of his Holocaust experience. From normal life in a small town to physical abuse in concentration camps, Night chronicles the journey of Wiesel’s teenage years. Neither Wiesel nor any of the Jews in Sighet could have imagined the horrors that would befall them as their lived changed under the Nazi regime. The Jews all lived peaceful, civilized lives before German occupation. Eliezer Wiesel was concerned with mysticism and his father was “more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin” (4). This would change in the coming weeks, as Jews are segregated, sent to camps, and both physically and emotionally abused. These changes and abuse would dehumanize men and cause them to revert to basic instincts. Wiesel and his peers devolve from civilized human beings to savage animals during the course of Night.

The holocaust is a period of time were in a time of war a human’s natural right was disregarded and cast away in a trail of bloodshed that over 6 million people suffered just because they were of Jewish descent and many surviving Jewish people of the holocaust had to deal with the guilt of living and witnessing their family dying. This book (Night by Elie Wiesel, Published in 1960) shows the reader the holocaust through the eyes of the author after he was torn away from his village and relocated to a Ghetto in Sighet. After spending some time in the Ghetto he and his family are forced on to a train with hundred’s of other fellow Jewish people who too are also confused about where the Germans were going to send them to. After spending a few

Eve has been a powerful female figure throughout history and provoked so many female authors because she is depicted as the first woman, made from the rib of the first man, Adam. Since Eve was the first, and mother to all women, she was preserved to have passed on an evil nature to all women after tasting the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge and asking Adam to as well. Women have invested their time in Eve’s defense by arguing that it was not the fault of Eve alone, and that if Adam was supposed the be a symbol of strength, and wisdom, then he should been able to see through Eve’s fruit and the trickery of the serpent. The story bible has been used as a symbol of oppression for women by the word of God being law in the Christian

Had my own eyes betrayed me? Can I trust anything? “‘What can you expect, it’s war...’” the neighbors said, and invited the Gestapos to invade our homes, our communities, and our lives, yet the Jews of Sighet still smiled as the Gestapo officers sauntered down the streets, guns slapping their thighs, sharp eyes scanning the streets, and allowed their strong German voices to slowly take away our rights (Wiesel 4). If any suspicion about the Gestapo's intentions was present, it was like gossip, hidden away from the light, but talked about in whispers, in the shadows behind closed doors. The thrill consumed me, the thrill of having my own secret, something I knew that no one else knew. I thought about the possibilities, “what the

The flame had been extinguished, the feel of it snuffed out between his fingers nowhere near comparable to the heat scorching through his veins. His Grace had never been like this, had never scoured every nerve inside his vessel as it grew, it had always been warm, been comforting even in the most desperate of times and yet now. Why? Gabriel let his fingers brush over the heated wax, letting it conform to his fingertips before he pulled them back and watched it quickly dry. Pale nubs sat top his index and middle finger, twisting them slowly back and forth as he studied it before her voice caught him off guard. The wax was easily discarded, pulled off and set back at the base of the candle as he turned, almost uneasy at the fact that he hadn’t realized she woken up sooner.

Night is a book about a Jewish boy born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania. The boy's name is Elie. Elie was a normal Jewish teenager with a normal life. He has friends and family. However, that will change soon.

1. What is one story of a young migrant or refugee that you heard? Are there any way the story

Born 1928, Eliezer Wiesel was welcomed into the family of Shlomo and Sarah, along with his siblings Hilda, Tzipora and Beatrice. Once Eliezer reaches the age of just 16, his once happy family ensues on a journey they will never forget: Auschwitz. The Holocaust was Wiesel's focal point in a majority of his most prominent novels. Looking back at some of his work, it is clear that the tragedies that took place throughout his lifetime had sparked a desire inside himself to inform society about the hidden truth of this living nightmare. The Night Trilogy, originally published in 1962, accentuates the struggles of a jewish adolescent who is living in a German Concentration Camp. Focusing specifically on Night and Dawn, the two can be compared although there are significant differences through the characters themselves, the themes as well as the conflicts are similar.

After reading the book “Night” the Nazi treated the people like nothing. When families arrives at Auschwitz, the men and women are separated, and Elie sees his mother and sisters vanishing in the distance. He holds onto his father and is determined not to lose him. A fellow prisoner tells Elie to say that he is eighteen (though he is really fifteen) and that his father is forty (though he is fifty). The prisoners who have been at Auschwitz for a while are brutal and cruel to the new arrivals, and one of them tells them about the crematory. Some of the young men talk about revolting, but are silenced by their elders. Thereafter, everyone is forced to march past SS officer, who uses a baton to pick out who will remain alive and who will go to

In Joseph L Mankiewicz’s film ‘All About Eve’, a major aspect of the film is the world of the theatre and the people involved in it. With a particular focus on the stars of the theatre, All About Eve uncovers the lengths that some people will go to in order to secure their own fame and stardom in the theatre. The character of Eve specifically demonstrates the ruthless attitudes and actions of some actors. It is made clear throughout the film, through the use of film techniques such as music and camera angles, that it is due to the ruthless approach Eve takes to becoming famous in the theatre that the audience is led to dislike her as a character. Eve’s manipulative ways, and the way in which she uses this to further pursue her acting career,

We can see the poem deals with the entire story of man's fall from grace, including background for Satan's motives. In Paradise Lost, Eve was tricked by Satan, who assumed the form of a serpent, into eating from the Tree of Knowledge. Satan had whispered into her ear when she was asleep, and when he spoke to her later, he used his cunning to mislead her: