Literary Analysis : ' The Other Night '

Over 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust, 1.1 million were children and 6 million were Jewish. In the novel titled Night by Elie Wiesel, it tells about a kid name Elie Wiesel and his experience during the Holocaust. This novel will will also explain his thoughts/feelings during this tragic event. During the tragic event, Elie Wiesel lost his mother when the Holocaust started and lost his father at the end of the Holocaust. Three qualities that contributed to Wiesel’s survival was his intelligence, when he hid his left arm, his bravery, when he refused to separate from his father during the selection, and his determination, when he decided to not stop running during the flee.

In the beginning of the passage, the author is developing the characters and their attitudes, along with building their relationships with each other. Sedaris, directly tells the readers what the children's’ relationship is with their mother, ¨Our presence had disrupted the secret life she led while we were at school, and when she could no longer take it she threw us out¨ (Sedaris). Sedaris leads the reader to believe there is not a strong relationship between the children and the mother through this direct quote. Sedaris tries to focus on building their relationship as children wanting more attention from their mother, however mom does not want to spend time with them. This negative relationship developed between these characters sets the narrative for the rest of the passage.

The soul didn’t have the initial goal of only being able to express its love under the faint light of the moon, and when this faint light changes to the glaring light of the sun, the soul is sorrowful that its love can no longer be openly expressed. It finds temporary healing in this lunar beauty, but only “till it pass[es;]” after that, the soul once again has to be fickle and unwillingly keep a measured distance from its love. A similar sentiment is expressed in “Now through night’s caressing grip”:

James Joyce’s short fiction, “Araby”, speaks of the loss of innocence when one enters adulthood. The narrator of “Araby” reflects back to his childhood and the defining moment when he reached clarity on the world he stood before. The young boy, living in a world lifeless and religious influence, becomes consumed with the lust of a neighbouring girl. The girl, Mangan, is symbolically the narrator’s childhood obsession with growing up. As she resembles the desire to become an adult, the Araby is the enchanted vision of adulthood. By the end of the short story, he realizes the bareness of everyday life. In fact, the disappointment that is Araby awakens the boy to the fact that his immature dreams have blinded him to the cold and stagnant

Ready Player One hits some of the same situations as in the holocaust or for the book that we read “Night” like taking people spread out over a good area and combining them into a small dense area. They both also touch on the topic of how when someone is killed or something is blown up now one raises an eyebrow or if they do no one does anything about it.

While reading the books, Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza, and Night by Elie Wiesel, the similarity in person was very prominent. Noticing how closely related these two authors were in their time of struggle and how they conquered their struggles to become survivors. Family, personality, religion, and lifestyle all played separate parts in the story which were told. Though these authors share many similarities, there are still a few ways they differ in the events they were exposed to.

Renowned American actor David Stiers described the importance of family when he remarked “family means no one gets left behind or forgotten”(Stiers). The importance of family is that they support one another, this is displayed in this remark, and is also seen in Elie Wiesel’s story Night. Night is a story that gives readers a first person account of a fifteen year old boy’s journey through the Holocaust and the struggles that confront him. In his novel, Night, Elie Wiesel expresses the concept that family is the only thing that gets each other through hardships through his use of rhetorical devices such as dialogue, repetition, and elements of tone.

Key speech or thought expressed by the main character that relates to one of the five (5) common Canadian themes (see previous PowerPoint).

Determination is a key part of life because it can get you through tough situations. It is easy to give up in hardships, but determination is so much more important. In NightJohn by Gary Paulsen, readers realize that though they may be in a tough situation, determination can get them through it and achieve your goals.

I went Into Elie Wiesel 's Night having read the book in various stages in my life. It seems to follow me through my schooling years. In junior high I read it in standard English class, just like any other book I would have read that year. In high school I read it for a project I was creating on World War II, looking at it from a more historical approach. Being a firsthand account of concentration camps made it a reliable source of historical information. But during previous times when I was reading, I never thought to take a look at it from a theological point of view. Doing so this time really opened my eyes to things and themes I hadn 't noticed during previous readings.

In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel and the short story The Breakaway the two authors use of imagery is similar because they both show how the events taking place look, add great detail into them, and show how the reader feels during the event. An example of this similarity in The Breakaway is “justin just laid in bed with his leg in a long cast feeling like a broomstick…justin blew up like a balloon as watched his once bright future fadeaway.” the imagery in The Breakaway helps to create tone. An example of this in Night is “the old men stayed in their corner, silent, motionless, hunted-down creatures.” the imagery Night uses makes tone.

“Night” is a book based on the childhood of the writer Elie Wiesel and his experience during Nazi-Germany. He writes about his experiences from 1944-1945 the height and downfall of the second World War.

What would it do to a person to go to a concentration camp, see the horrible things, and come out alive? This book, Night, is about Eliezer Wiesel, who is both the main character and the author. Elie’s book is a memorial about his experience in Hitler’s concentration camps, what he went through, and how he survived. This paper is going to be about Eliezer’s horrific experience and the ways that it changed him.

Imagine being forcibly stripped of all of your belongings, being separated from your family, and struggling to survive alone in an unfamiliar place that emits the aroma of freshly burnt flesh. The book Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography that depicts his lasting experience with horrors of the Holocaust. The book is written from Eliezer’s perspective and recounts his remarkable story. The memoir exhibits three prominent themes: the relationship between father and son, a loss of faith, and inurement.

Literary Analysis Abbi Glines utilizes setting in the book Until Friday Night, by trying to connect with her audience. She starts with a place that most people have experienced. “It was the end to our summer to our summer and the beginning of our senior year” (7). By saying this, she gets everyone to picture back to their last summer and to get her younger audience to imagine what their senior summer will be like. She gets thoughts flowing through the reader’s mind, just so she can go against what the reader was thinking about that way she can hook them and get them intrigued in the story.