Imagery In Eliezer Wiesel's Night

Wiesel does a wonderful job with his use of pathos throughout the speech by making the audience reflect on his words and creates a strong emotional reaction for what is being said. From being a survivor of the Holocaust, one of the darkest parts of history as well as the most shallow times for humanity. Immediate sympathy is drawn from the audience. When he states that himself endured the horrible conditions these people had to live in. He then explains to us that the people there, “No longer felt hunger, pain, thirst. They feared nothing. They felt nothing. They were dead and did not know it.” With saying this it brings forth feelings of guilt, one of the most negative emotions to accumulate a reaction towards these events. Also numerous people throughout the world long for world peace and to hear the inhumane acts that was once acted upon an innocent man, makes their stomach's sink. Wiesel defines its derivation, as “no difference” and uses numerous comparisons on what may cause indifference, as a “strange and unnatural state in which the lines blur.” Like good and evil, dark and light. Wiesel continues to attract the audience emotionally by stating this he is aware of how tempting it may be to be indifferent and that at times it can be easier to avoid

His attitude went reversed from being confident, as a religious and prestigious person within the Jewish community, to being scared with the inmates giving poor treatment to him. Wiesel was separated split from his mother and sister along with given the bare minimum to eat and drink. Therefore, it was not surprising when he felt scared and uncomfortable with his surroundings as he was not used to it. Furthermore, during the time when his father was slapped by a Gypsy inmate, Wiesel stood petrified with fear instead of retaliating back against his father’s adversary. He explored the rationale behind his lack of action through the text stating, “my father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent” (39). Even though the Gypsy inmate slapped Wiesel’s father, Wiesel did not stand up for this father considering how scared he was of the authority in Auschwitz, a concentration camp. This incident reflected on his change in character since the authority at Auschwitz dehumanized his father in front of everyone, and he did not do anything to defend his father. Earlier, the Jewish people were allowed to sit down at the second barrack of the Auschwitz camp. Wiesel’s father got up to ask to use the bathroom since he had a colic attack; however, the gypsy inmate in charge did not answer his question and slapped him. Because of Wiesel’s his

Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography about his experience during the Holocaust when he was fifteen years old. Elie is fifteen when the tragedy begins. He is taken with his family through many trials and then is separated from everyone besides his father. They are left with only each other, of which they are able to confide in and look to for support. The story is told through a series of creative writing practices. Mr. Wiesel uses strong diction, and syntax as well as a combination of stylistic devices. This autobiography allows the readers to understand a personal, first-hand account of the terrible events of the holocaust. The ways that diction is used in Night helps with this understanding.

During the Holocaust, Eliezer Wiesel changes from a spiritual, sensitive, little boy to a spiritually dead, dispassionate man. In his memoir, Night, Elie speaks about his experiences upon being a survivor of the Holocaust. The reader sees how Elie has changed through his experiences in Sighet and the ghettos in comparison to what it was like for him in the concentration camps.

Wiesel exemplified the dehumanization of the Jewish prisoners in Night. He showed the readers a personal view of the Nazi's treatment to the prisoners. They lost their possessions,

During the Holocaust many things that occurred in concentration camps caused despair among its prisoners.Mr. Wiesel tells about the treatment in death camps in his book Night by Elie Wiesel. He faced starvation, physical, and mental abuse. In 1944, Wiesel and his family were deported from Hungary. He lost everything including his family, religion, identity, and faith in humanity. Wiesel and his father were sent to Birkenau where they were held, but were later moved to a different death camp.

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.

The greatest change to Elie Wiesel’s identity was his loss of faith in God. Before he and his family were moved to the camps, Wiesel was a religious little boy who cried after praying at night (2). When the Hungarian police come to force the Jews to move to the ghettos, they pulled Elie from his prayers (13). Even on his way to Auschwitz, stuffed inside the cattle car with other terrified Jews, Wiesel gave thanks to God when told he would be assigned to labor camps (24). After a few days in Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel heard about the crematory and the fact that the Nazis were killing the sick, weak, and young. In his first night in the camp, Wiesel experienced his first crisis of faith: Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. …Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust (32).

Elie Wiesel was fifteen at the time when he was taken. When Wiesel was at the camp with his father, he experienced and saw things no human could imagine. Wiesel being at this camp caused him to grow up pretty fast. He also had to care for his elderly father, so it was harder for him to survive. Wiesel had this lingering weight, his father, always on him. In the memoir Night there’s a scene where Wiesel gets put in the hospital because he had an infected foot (74). After Wiesel went through the surgery, he had to recover for 2 weeks. Throughout those 2 weeks, Wiesel didn’t have to work and he even got to sleep in a real bed. Also the Russians were coming to liberate the camp, but only the people that were in the hospital were liberated. Wiesel had a chance to be free, but decided to escape and return to his father even though he was recovering from surgery. Elie Wiesel really showed an act of kindness, love, and affection. He sacrificed his freedom for his father. By him making that sacrifice, he lost his innocence and took responsibility for the life of his father and

Up to 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust, either in concentration camps, Nazi marches, or in ghettos. Out of all the deaths the few that survived lived to tell their stories, and Elie Wiesel was of one them. He wrote a memoir titled Night, in which he shares his experience with readers all around the world. By using many different style devices Wiesel's memoir demonstrates a sober style that is serious, solemn, or grave; writing which is not exaggerated or distorted.

When all the chances of breaking free from what was in store for them were pushed away, I wondered what would have happen if the Wiesel family had taken the chances they were given. If they had taken the opportunity to leave, maybe the family would be safe. Maybe they wouldn’t have had to face the horrific tragedy of the Holocaust; maybe the light behind their eyes wouldn’t have faded away along with their faith in God. Maybe, just maybe, the Wiesel family would have been all right, trying to restart a new life in Palestine, only to remain ignorant of what was happening around them…But ignorance comes with the consequences of harsh realization and the truth is never sugarcoated. The truth is cold and bitter, like poison forced down a person’s

Realizing that Wiesel showed no emotions, “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep,” it shows that he has completely loss his innocence and was emotionally exhausted. Wiesel struggles to keep himself and his father alive, that when his father passed it was a relief, and he no longer carried a burden, “‘ Free at last.’” As Elie is impacted from showing no emotions he is also affected by losing his faith in

This way, when Wiesel does tell them what they did wrong, the audience won’t feel completely attacked and become unresponsive to his attempt to protect our society’s humanity. They will still feel capable of promoting positive change and will, therefore, attempt to enforce that change. He lets his audience know that it is understandable for them to give into “tempting--more than that seductive” indifference because “it is so much easier to look away from victims. It is so much easier to avoid such rude interruptions to our work, our dreams, our hopes.” People tend to get wrapped up in their own lives, so it is easily forgotten that other people are suffering and in need of their help.

The memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel is about a teenage boy name Eliezer and what his family and he went through during the Holocaust. Eliezer goes through so many different kinds of situations and faces many problems as well. Throughout the book, it tells readers about how Nazi dehumanized their victims during the Holocaust. There is three stages of dehumanization mentally, physically and emotionally and Eliezer went through all three stages of dehumanization, not only him but many Jews did as well.

To lose someone very close can hurt; it can change how one behaves and how they may think. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel and his father endured unbearable amounts of torment during their stay in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald. Emotional death was a very common side effect of the concentration camps. Many of the Holocaust victims such as Wiesel felt emotional death as a result of witnessing acts of violence, being forced to do extreme manual labor, and overall being brutally mistreated. Wiesel’s encounters with violence and death struck him monotonously.