I agree with the argument (Gaies) that Chapter 16 (“Passover”), rather than Chapter 19 (“The End of This World Begins Now”), is the dramatic high point of the novel. First of all, we knew there were some survivors of Lubizec. While the number was incredibly small, we still read the survivor accounts of Zischer and Damiel. So, the fact that they successfully escaped was not the most dramatic point for me. If it were not for Chapter 16, Chapter 19 would not have happened the way it played out. A tipsy Guth and his guards entered Barrack 14 on a January night in 1943. These men had the audacity to force the Jewish men to show them how they celebrated Passover. The guards wanted to observe them like pets, turning their sacred holiday into a …show more content…
Most of the people that entered these camps were dead within an hour after arriving. Since the number of survivors were next to none, it is hard for us to understand or even put this horror into words. In this book, Patrick Hicks uses the narrator to point out the inadequacy of language to represent Lubizec.
Especially throughout chapter two, Life in a Death Camp, the narrator stops to point out the difficulty of trying to find words to describe this camp entirely. Lubizec was created to kill Jews as quickly and efficiently as possible. 99 percent of people who entered Lubizec were murdered, and because of this it is impossible to describe and explain it justice. As the narrator stated, “In order to describe a place we need to talk in terms of presence, but they only way to describe an extermination camp is through absence”. By this he means we can talk about the procedures and daily operations but we are forgetting the individual lives which were lost. What words could possibly pay homage to those souls? This is what he wants us to ponder. Sure, we can discuss how men and women were separated and what they were forced to do, but this is still procedural. Authors could use the words pain and fear to describe what the Jews were feeling, but do they really have meaning? The narrator explains how everyone reading the book, with creature comforts surrounding them, can put it down and forget about Lubizec. These
In the American memoir, Night, Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel constructs a story about the horrific events he endured during the Holocaust. In the pages of this memoir, he portrays the life of Eliezer, a child born Jewish. In the later chapters of the book, Eliezer endures the tragic hanging of a pipel who lost his life for not giving up the names of the inmates that worked to sabotage the power plant at Buna, a forced labor camp in Germany. The guards forced Eliezer and his father to walk past the child as he hung from the gallows stuck between life and death. The death of the child signifies the death of Eliezer’s faith. The author used this position in the memoir to signify the end of the main character’s religious views, which makes this the climax of the book. The climax fits into the structure of the memoir at this point by staying consistent in word choice and advancing the plot further. The use of the appeals and tone also ties this scene into the plot. However, each translation utilizes these devices differently. The scholar’s translation focuses on ethos, logos, and a helpless tone. Marion’s translation uses pathos and a bitter tone. Marion’s version more effectively uses the appeals and tone because it conveys more emotion to the reader.
Over 5 million people died between 1933 and 1945. Additionally, around half of these deaths happened in a concentration camp. This point in time is commonly referred to as the Holocaust. In Elie Wiesel’s book "Night” that documents Elie Wiesel’s struggles in a ghetto and then being transported throughout Germany to these awful places that are made for death. However, in the novel “Night,” Elie Wiesel uses dialog, ellipses, and symbolism to show the bond he has with his father. (73)
"The three 'veteran' prisoners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms. I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name".(42) By taking away their names and giving them a number, they made them feel unworthy. As the book went on every person in the concentration camps began to lose compassion for one another. As Ellie's father began to get sick, he had to start taking care of him like he was own child instead of the other way around. Ellie then became very tired of caring for his father. "And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!..." (112)Ellie was very upset that his father had passed but he was glad he was finally free. He did not say it aloud but on the inside he was glad he did not have to take care of his father. The conditions in the concentration camps were absolutely horrific and it made every single person concerned for their survival. As the men were running for selection many men fell. Everyone else just kept running like there was no one falling, getting hurt. All the men cared about was their safety. Ellie saw the men but decided to look out for himself. "Beneath our feet there lay, men crushed, trampled underfoot
It has been days. I stumble, foot over foot to the crack of sunlight that beams into the car. I feel the train rock back and forth, side to side as we tumble over the tracks to a “better life.” A better life. More bread. They care about us. I hear the screech as the cars stop as we are all tossed forward. “Welcome to Auschwitz, Jews.” I hear a man scream be strong. I hear the crack of a whip and gun shots. I know they lied.
The pain, the cold harsh wind biting at the ankles of hundreds of thousands of people. Human beings enduring torture so great it was not life, it was survival for beasts. Pain so great that no word in any dictionary can describe it. The emanation of a thousand rotting corpses lying in the snow. The wailing of millions so intense it was like it was from the depths of Tartarus watching as they trudged on. The cold snatching hundreds of lives and the only heat sources are from the eternal fires of death. The holocaust, the hand of hell descending on the world. Jews crammed into cattle cars and sent to concentration camps. Families were separated into different camps and many died in the rigorous selection process. Survivors were worked to near death by German SS officers as shown in Elie Wiesel’s Night, a memoir of the holocaust. Imagery, Symbolism, and Comparisons are all viable writing tools that provide a writer the best
One of the worst things that happened constantly in the camps did not just have to watch people die, or eve seeing the massive piles of dead bodies but the Germans made the Jews burn their fellow prisoners bodies in the crematoriums. The Jews were taken out of their homes and thrown into camps, while watching people die all around them if cruel and violent conditions as the Germans heartlessly treated them like animals.
All hope was lost in escape. The jews had already died inside, they cared no longer for freedom, just death. This shows just how extremely the cruelty affected them. It was explained earlier that they were being drained of emotion, and that they were. They felt nothing anymore as a result of this; the jews had fell into
It’s impossible to imagine what it’s like to be abused and murdered to such measures during the Holocaust. In the story Night, Elie Wiesel uses diction to show what brutal effects the Holocaust had on him and his fellow prisoners, his tone is quite somber, honest, and stern to stress his figurative language, to rather affect their feelings to give a sense of what the prisoners of the Nazi’s camp were feeling. In Night, Elie Wiesel compared himself to just an object, he writes, "The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky.
Primo Levi, in his novel Survival in Auschwitz (2008), illustrates the atrocities inflicted upon the prisoners of the concentration camp by the Schutzstaffel, through dehumanization. Levi describes “the denial of humanness” constantly forced upon the prisoners through similes, metaphors, and imagery of animalistic and mechanistic dehumanization (“Dehumanization”). He makes his readers aware of the cruel reality in the concentration camp in order to help them examine the psychological effects dehumanization has not only on those dehumanized, but also on those who dehumanize. He establishes an earnest and reflective tone with his audience yearning to grasp the reality of genocide.
One example of those used is, “He was weeping. His body was shaking. Everybody around us was weeping” (page 33). This quote establishes that joy was lost. Everybody was full of fear and sorrow and their flame of life had been extinguished. The people during this time that were going through the holocaust were in the dark about what was going on and why people were doing these horrid things to them. This also relates to the theme of what they endured and that crying and weeping was their reaction. That can take a toll on a person. Another piece of evidence is “... the soup tasted of corpses” (page 65). This example shows how morbid he and his fellow people were treated, that even the food tasted of death. This piece of evidence also relates to the theme of how darkness and death ties together that they were so somber and dark on the inside. That everything around them turned dark and resembled death and pain. Another example is “I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip… He took his time between lashes. Only the first really hurt” (page 57). This example establishes a strong sense of darkness due to the
What does the Leviticus chapter 1 teaches us? First, it teaches the Christians to understand and wake up at the reality of sins to those who are numbed by it. As Christians who grow up from Christian family, often times we are numbed about sins in our life. Everybody is sinful and there are no exception. Whether you are young or old; infant or adult; layman or pastor; student or teacher…. everybody is sinful. Have you lied even as a joke recently? Have you filled your heart and mind with lust recently? Have you complained and grumbled recently? Have you been angry with someone recently? I know I have. There is no greater sin or lesser sin but all sins are equal in the sight of the Lord. And if that is the case, beloved, we are destine to be
Passover is one of the most widely observed holidays and one of the most sacred to the Jewish people. It is a time of songs, family, and celebration. During this time, the Jews commemorate the bondage of the Israelites to Egypt. This weeklong celebration includes several rituals such as the meal known as the seder, removal of leavened bread and readings from the Haggadah. Passover customs between the Yemenites (Eastern Jews) and the European Jews vary in certain ways. One variation is in their musical interpretations of the Passover seder.
Both Dave Zirin in "The Shame of the NCAA" and Tim Ajmani in "Compensation for College Athletes" would agree that student athletes are being taken advantage of. In Zirin's piece, he speaks about how this treatment towards these students is a civil rights issue. These students are being overworked on the field, some may consider playing a sport in college is more than a full-time job, and aren't getting form of payment or protection. These corporations and universities are “enriching themselves on the backs of uncompensated young men whose status… deprives them of the right to due process guaranteed by the Constitution"(Zirin 204), the NCAA justifies its purpose with two principals, amateurism and student athletes. Since these athletes are students and playing amateur games, they don’t have to be compensated. The NCAA also justifies the fact that students don’t get paid by giving them free room and board but Ajmani makes a point that paying students would provide more of a motive for them to stay in school and complete their degree. In Ajmani's
As Eliezer is liberated from the concentration camp by American troops, he is left a scarred orphan. All of his immediate family is dead, and he is in an unfamiliar country, miles away from his home. Despite what has
There is a part where we watch as humans are so ugly that it is hard for us to imagine that what they had done is possible. Liesel is playing soccer in the park and all of a sudden all the kids stop because of a noise they hear coming down the street. They think it could be a herd of cattle, but that not what it is. It is a group of Jewish people being led, or forced, to the death camps by German soldiers. On there way we watch a man die “He was dead. The man was dead. Just give him five minutes and he would surely fall into the German gutter and die. They would all let him, and they would all watch”(Zusak 393). This is talking about how when a Jewish person would die, the Germans wouldn’t do anything. They wouldn’t care that a man died right in front of them. While the Jews are walking Hans, Liesel adopted father, gives them bread. While Hans is giving this man bread a German soldier notices what is going on. He walks over to the man and, “The Jew was whipped six times. On his back, his heart, and