Examples Of Euphemism In Night

Before the atrocities within the Holocaust take place Wiesel's relationship with his father is distant and cold. Ellie writes “My father wept. It was the first time I had ever seen him weep. I had never imagined that he could”(Wiesel 16). By stating that he couldn't imagine his father cry, it hammers home the idea of how removed Elie was from his father's emotions. There is an emotional disconnect between them; expressing emotion wasn't prevalent. This allows for a harsh contrast to the emotions felt by both Wiesel and his father after they arrive at Auschwitz. When Wiesel describes his father at the beginning of the book he describes him by stating “My father was a cultured, rather unsentimental man. There was never any display of emotion, even at

With the his humanity still intact he chooses to care for his father, just as his father had done so. That being said, he feels a great burden; a burden which his brutality wished to relieve as noted by the words “heavy heart.” As his father grow weaker and weaker Wiesel begins to ignore his father request, committing his first brutish act. After his father was cremated he says, “... in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like- free at last” (Wiesel 116). Wiesel feels a lack of grief after his father dies.

(Wiesel, 86) Wiesel personifies death by using diction to show the temptation that Elie faced as he saw death providing a way of ending the pain. Furthermore, Elie’s desire to die shows the horrific experience he endured. The Nazis have taken everything away from him and have broken him down so much that death sounds like a better option to Elie. Ultimately, the author uses the personification of death to make the readers realize that the Holocaust tore its victims apart mentally as well as physically to the point that even a young, teenager didn’t want to live to see the future ahead of him. The entire passage is also a striking parallel to the beginning of the novel, when all he wanted was to survive but after

many times during the book it talks about Wiesel’s problems. Elie’s first problem would be when he was in Buna, a concentration camp. This was a problem for Wiesel because he didn't have food, water, and at sometimes air. In the book Elie says “ At ten o’clock we were given our daily ration of bread” (Wiesel 34 ). This quote shows how that they only got bread once a day from their SS Officers, and that they didn't have food. Another problem Wiesel had is the loss of family. Elie got taken away from his mom and sister when they were deported on the train but got to stay with his father. Elie says “ I certainly do. But on one condition: I want to stay with my father” (Wiesel 35). With Elie being taken away from his mom and sister, he wanted to stay with his father through the whole thing. Wiesel’s father was his strength to stay alive. Elie had tough adversities he had to go through in his life and he was strong and overcame them.

After what seemed to be an eternal suffering, Elie and the remaining prisoners at the camp were rescued by the Allies. Unfortunately, Shlomo Wiesel, Ellie's dad, died shortly before the rescue, and Elie was thrown into the world all by himself. He then spent two weeks in the hospital fighting for his life. It is in that hospital that Elie stares at his own reflection in the mirror and says: "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me" (P115). In this quote, Wiesel represents the horrors of the war through visual imagery, making us imagine how Elie looks after having been put through such conditions. Through this quotation, Elie is separating himself from the person that went through the Holocaust, and is marking the beginning of a new life, leaving his past one behind. This quote scars the reader, leaving haunted by the scars of his past life.

Elie first recalls Dr. Mengele’s “eight short, simple words” (Wiesel 27) when he enters the camps: “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (Wiesel 27) In this part of the book, Elie and his father are separated by his mother and sisters. This metaphorically kills Elie because he is very attached to his family as are they to him. A piece of Elie has been taken away from him forever. Later in his memoir, he mentions the cruel hanging of the Pipel. Previous hangings that day did not phase Elie, but when the young, angelic Pipel was hanged, Elie said his once flavorful soup “tasted of corpses.” A man near Elie was saying “Where is God now?’ And I heard a voice within me answer him: “Where is He? Here He is- He is hanging here on this gallows…”(Wiesel 62) This is a powerful quote that shows how Elie has also began to question his faith. This brings about the mindset of the death of God in Elie. Elie begins to show distrust and rebellion in his God. This is a sharp contrast to Elie’s former beliefs. When Elie’s father dies, Elie emotionally shuts his mind off. He says “After my father’s death, nothing could touch me anymore.” He had finally given up. His father was his rock tied to the balloon, his reason to keep going. Without his father, Elie gave up and became zombified like the rest of the broken souls. Elie fully turned into the emotionless man that he was set to become as a result of surviving

In the beginning he was horrified of the things he saw. On his first day at a concentration camp Elie saw babies being thrown into large pits of fire, people being taken to the crematory and Jews being hit and beaten for no reason. As time past and Wiesel was moved from camp to camp he started to only care about his survival and the horrible things done by the Nazi’s became apart of his everyday life.He saw a boy whose face he said looked like the face of an angel being hung. The little boy struggled to breathe for over thirty minutes before the life in his eyes faded away. Wiesel's own father was beaten because he was sick and not given the proper medical care from the nazi’s. Days later his father was taken to the crematory. Instead of Wiesel being sad he was relieved that he no longer had to take care of his father. Elie lost friends family and saw many more being killed. Wiesel was almost numb to the things happening around him.

When Elie arrives at the camps, the author begins to use the corpse as a symbol of a living person who is dead inside. This is how Elie begins to see himself and others as, the living dead. "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me (Wiesel 109)." When Elie looks into the mirror he can not recognize what he has become. He thinks of himself as one of the others who died like his family or the millions of others slaughtered right before his eyes. He essentially becomes a useless body that works on the outside but is undoubtedly damaged on the inside. Wiesel also brings the story to life with imagery that stimulates all of the senses. He illustrates the horror of the crematories with vivid words that make the reader feel the sympathy he feels."Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky. Never shall I forget the flames that consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.

As Elie’s life continues he endures more tests that at his age majority of the people would not have experienced. Elie's father was suffering from dysentery and other maladies. On the night of January 28th in 1945, Elie goes to his bunk in exhaustion with his father still alive and in the bunk below him, “I had to go to sleep. I climbed into my bunk, above my father, who was still alive. The date was January 28, 1945”(112). In the morning, Elie wakes up to a new person in the bed where his father had laid. Elie realizes that he has no emotion left to show, especially not sympathy, “I

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.

Elie Wiesel’s use of diction and syntax are simple and unsophisticated. This should not be thought of in a negative way. He gets his story across in a concise manner that is easy to understand, yet he is able to evoke the horror of that time in his life giving the reader a clear image and vision throughout the story. His writing is not wordy and drawn out, but rather in short sentences. The strength of his language leaves the reader with a keen sense of the pain the Jews felt as the Nazi’s managed to dehumanize them. His diction and syntax leads to numerous examples of figurative language throughout the book. Many similes are shown to show the manner that the Jews were treated during the Holocaust. “They passed me by, like beaten dogs, with never a glance in my direction. They must have envied me.” (Weisel 35) This quote refers to members of Elie’s town when he was 15, and the Hungarian police had rounded up people to leave the ghetto. Elie compares the members of his town to beaten dogs using the term “like.” They most likely wished they could have traded places with Elie. Elie also shows how camps were prisons by saying, “The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with real fear.” (Wiesel 29) Wiesel compares the barbed wire to a wall using the term “like.” Wiesel refers to the emptiness of the Ghettos when being transported as, “ Open rooms everywhere. Gaping doors and windows looked into the void. It all belonged to everyone since it no longer belonged to anyone. It was there for the taking. An open tomb. A summer sun.” (Wiesel 35) He states this because he is comparing the town to an open tomb and a summer sun because everybody who lived in the town had been taken by Nazis. An open tomb is something everyone can look at, while a

Lastly, after all the trauma and mistreatment that Elie Wiesel and his father go through together, their relationship strengthens, until Elie’s father becomes a burden to him. Elie does truly want to take of his

A woman, a mother without her husband, is beaten to silence by her own neighbors. A boy, not quite old enough to read, is publicly hung for protecting the defenseless. A son and a father, at the end of the rope, are killed for a meager piece of bread. A man is forgotten. 11 million innocent people are murdered in less than a decade. The divide between human and animal is a fragile line. At one point does one lose what makes them human? Elie Wiesel explores the fragility of humanity in his memoir, Night. Through the use of literary devices, primarily symbolism and irony, Wiesel illustrates the horrors he experienced in Auschwitz and his personal accounts of those who have been deprived of their very human rights.

On the other hand, throughout Night, Elie often remarked of his loss of humanity and emotion. Whereas, in the beginning of this story, Elie thought himself to be a very moral person, even a person worthy enough to study the Kabbalah, through his ordeal, he saw that he and all humans are cruel and act on instinct rather than emotion. This point can be highlighted through Elie’s diminishing concern for his father. Though he often tried to keep himself and his father alive at the start of their time in the internment camps, Wiesel slowly lost this concern (in fact, he started to hate his father for being a burden) with time and with the realization of his need to act on instinct in order to survive. This culminated in the end of the book when Elie totally ignored his father’s pleas for food, and he, instead, wished his father would be taken to be killed sooner. Considering both of these cases, Ignatius’ pessimism carries no justification at all, whereas Wiesel’s does.

In my opinion, the sniper did not have any other choice but to kill the man because those were his orders. Brother or not, this was wartime and betray your orders was to betray yourself as a whole. Although, when the sniper saw the face of his brother, there was this feeling of regret. Almost as if the sniper missed his brother, and did not wish to separate from him in the beginning. So, therefore, it is truly a matter of how you look at it. From the beginning, it looks as though his brother is the enemy. However, within the last sentence, the whole perspective is changed and a new idea of regret is brought to mind. In conclusion, It all depends on how you look at it. Guilty or not, the sniper made one of the hardest choices a human being