How is power defined? Power is defined by the capability of doing or accomplishing something. It is

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.

Power is having the capability or qualification to do something or control something. The idea of power is often analyzed in the Truman Show and Animal farm. In the Truman Show, Peter Weir suggests that power can be bad and that people shouldn’t have power

As a young child, it was known that Elie prayed very often, and was much in touch with his faith. His eyes were filled with curiosity, wonder, and joy, and it seemed as though nothing could take that away from him. Once Elie was taken away from his home, and his family were stripped away from him, some earlier than others, it is noticeable that a sudden darkness is coming over him. By the time its is the end of the novel, he is so overcome with guilt and sadness, he can no longer even recognize the person that he once was. Elie explains this right at the end of the autobiography as he states, “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.” He is no longer saying he is looking at himself, but instead is stating he is looking into the eyes of a corpse, a feeling that has never left him. This shows that no matter how much time passes, or how long it has been since the Holocaust, the feeling of suffering will always remain in those who remember

Elie has difficulty in understanding inhumanity and oppression surrounding him at this early stage in his life. Elie is beginning to distinguish between what is legitimate and what is fabricated in terms of the war; for instance, the truth about where they are being taken and what the Almighty are doing about the Nazi’s actions. Walking through Auschwitz, observing the crematoria, and the hundreds of innocent people walking into their death unknowingly.

Life as a prisoner in Auschwitz is difficult to bear, and this is shown by Elie’s decay in character. Elie’s father asked a Gypsy, in German, if he knew where the toilets are. After examining him, The Gypsy smacked Elie’s father to the ground. Elie’s expression was displayed in text, “I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal's flesh. Had I changed that much”(39)? Elie’s will to defend his father is no longer existent, and this is due to the constant horror that was already exposed to Elie. With this, Elie himself, has become a totally different person than he was arriving here; even Elie has come to realized this

There are many definitions of power but my definition of power is to rule over, or to have

The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.” These finishing lines present the idea that the experience has, in a sense, “killed” Wiesel. This changed Elie’s behaviors because his death is primarily spiritual. Before his imprisonment, Wiesel, as a teenager, lived for his spiritual beliefs. His only goal for the future was to become more and more involved in the higher aspects of Judaism. During his time at the concentration camps, it causes him to feel as he died. Everything thing he knew and loved was destroyed because of the religion and for being the person he was meant to be. He was so surprised by how his God could let people kill innocent people and just sit there and listen to their prayers without doing anything to help them. This changed Elie’s behaviors because he no longer believes in God's mercy just his existence. Another way his behavior has changed is that Elie is a young and healthy boy at the story's beginning. He has so much of life before him. However, by the end of the story when the Allies liberate him and the rest of the camp, he tries to adjust to being free, clean and fed. It is all very difficult for him. After living in the dark all the time, it is hard for Elie to adjust to having his freedom

This was the last moment that Elie says his mother and sister, where they had been killed in the gas chambers shortly after. Yet, Elie was lucky enough to have spent his time there with his father. Gas chambers were a big part of the execution of the Jewish population. Other techniques that the Nazis used to injure and abuse them included whipping, hanging, attacking, fighting, and abuse from the doctors whom would practice hazardous surgeries on the prisoners for their personal research. Daily in the concentration camps, prisoners would be killed with everyone in the camp watching and scared next time it will be them. The other prisoners would be forced to watch them die, even if they are a family member, friend, or even just a roommate who they saw as a friend. After witnessing death numerous times, Elie, his father, and their fellow prisoners got used death, they had not let it affect them anymore. They saw babies burning to death, children getting hung, adults being abused, and innocent being killed. “...seven times cursed and seven times cursed and seven times sealed. 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

Initially, before Elie was taken to the concentration camp he was a powerless, curious, and kind boy. Wiesel wrote, “ I don’t know how I survived: I was weak, rather shy.” (vii) This evidence explains how Elie believed that he wasn’t the strongest one out of the group and was weaker, leading him to question how he made it through the holocaust. Also, this sentence shows that his physical figure may have been smaller along with his mental state being undetermined or weak. In continuation, Elie states in the book, “For the youth of today, for the children who will be born tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future.” (xv) This evidence talks about how Elie does not want history to repeat itself and wishes that this tragic event will never happen again. Adding onto that, these sentences prove that Elie was a kind enough person to share his torture filled experiences with the world to further educate the youth and the older generations. Even though it pains him thinking of that depressing time in his life, he continues to stress how he would never want that to happen in the future and tell of his story. In the book, Wiesel wrote, “ Why do you pray?, he asked after a moment. Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” (4) This text discusses how when Elie was praying, Moishe the Beadle began asking him very meaningful questions he didn’t know the answer to. This evidence leads me to believe that Elie was a very curious and lost person because it gives off a feeling of not knowing his true self or his meaning. Also, Elie is constantly wondering about life’s many secrets and eventually begins questioning God. Prior to the

Although, when Eliezer and his father are brought outside, their nightmares become a reality. Eliezer notices, “My father was crying… As for my mother, she was walking, her face a mask, without a word, deep in thought.” Wiesel uses “mask” as a descriptive word to show that his mother has isolated herself in her own thoughts of what might come next. His father had the same look on his

I often sat with him, after services, and listened to his tales, trying to understand his grief. But all I felt was pity.”. In this scene, Moishe, one of the poorest Jewish persons in Elie’s village, went door to door telling people his story trying to cross the Hungarian border and about Malaka. The village believes that he has gone crazy. In this event, Elie was caring and full of love before he went to Auschwitz. He cared about the people around him, even though they might have been crazy or had an unspoken personality, he would be there for them. Furthermore, Elie had many valuable traits before he went to the concentration camp known as Auschwitz. But throughout his time in Auschwitz, these traits started to fade off and new traits appeared.

Power is the capacity or ability to directly influence the behavior of others or the course of events. Power is something that can destroy the world if the people give one-person control over everything. In the last presidential election so many individuals were afraid that President Donald Trump would have too much control and power. People fail to realize Trump does not control nor have that much power by himself. The power is separate but equality between each branch. The reason we have such rules is because of the founding fathers, who made the Federalist Paper to promote the ratification of the United State Constitution.

George Orwell once said, “The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power,” but what exactly is power? Since power has no concrete definition, it can be defined in many different ways. For example, some may define power as an ability to do something, but some may describe it as a way to determine reputation or popularity. In the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, power is defined by persuasion, use of authority, and brute force.

Power can be defined in many ways. Most simply, it is the ability to get what you want.

Power is the ability to control others or one’s entity. Accordingly it can be defined as a kind of strength or as an authority. There are various theorisations about the meaning of this term in sociology thus it would be hard to give a comprehensive